In North Carolina, Education Activists Face an Uphill Battle

Game-theoretic recommendations: some progress in an uphill battle

Game theory has become the central language for the analysis of multi-agent systems. Moreover, the central gametheoretic solution concept, the Nash equilibrium, has become a standard tool for that analysis. A game is a general way for representation of interactions among agents: each agent has strategies he can choose from, and each tuple of strategies, one for each agent, determines a payoff f...

Should we do battle with antivaccination activists?

Antivaccination activists have existed since variolation was introduced in Europe in the 18th century. Today, they continue to attempt to influence the vaccination decisions of parents. Commentators have expressed concern about the impact of such activists on vaccination rates and disease outbreaks. Some argue that public health advocates should engage in adversarial approaches involving public...

Encouraging learning how to fish: an uphill but worthwhile battle.

INTRODUCTION Encouraging teaching practices such as problem-based learning (PBL) amongst undergraduate students within a lecture-based, system-based integrated curriculum is a challenge. Students are apprehensive about developing an organised framework for acquiring knowledge while lecturers are required to reframe their views on the educational process and their role as educators. MATERIALS ...

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The Uphill Battle of Ant Programming Vs. Genetic Programming

Ant programming has been proposed as an alternative to Genetic Programming (GP) for the automated production of computer programs. Generalized Ant Programming (GAP) – an automated programming technique derived from principles of swarm intelligence – has shown promise in solving symbolic regression and other hard problems. Enhanced Generalized Ant Programming (EGAP) has improved upon the perform...