Axiomatic-like performance analysis (ALPA)

Axiomatic Analysis of Negotiation Protocols

Negotiation protocols are rules under which a negotiation proceeds. This paper introduces a logic approach to negotiation protocol analysis. We consider a negotiation procedure as multiple stages of mutual belief revision. A set of postulates in AGM-style of belief revision are proposed to specify rational behavior of negotiation. An explicit construction of negotiation function is given in whi...

Performance Evaluation of a 33 Megapixel Alpa 12 Medium Format Camera for Digital Close Range Photogrammetry

The accuracy of object reconstruction was tested with two medium format cameras made by ALPA of Switzerland. Both cameras have been equipped with a 33 megapixel Leaf Aptus 75 digital camera back and a 47 mm focal length Schneider Apo-Digitar lens. The first test was carried out with the lens in “normal” position. In the second test, the principal point of another Apo-Digitar lens type was decen...

Desert as Fit: An Axiomatic Analysis

Distributional Rank Aggregation, and an Axiomatic Analysis

The rank aggregation problem has been studied with varying desiderata in varied communities such as Theoretical Computer Science, Statistics, Information Retrieval and Social Welfare Theory. We introduce a variant of this problem we call distributional rank aggregation, where the ranking data is only available via the induced distribution over the set of all permutations. We provide a novel tra...

Statistical Decisions under Ambiguity: An Axiomatic Analysis

Consider a decision maker who faces a number of possible models of the world. Every model generates objective probabilities, but no probabilities of models are given. Applications of this framework include statistical decision making with model uncertainty, e.g. due to concerns for misspecification, or Robust Bayesian decision analysis. I characterize a number of decision rules including Bayesi...