MapAI Competition Submission for Team Kaborg

Team competition

In a team competition, two participating teams have an equal number of players, and each team orders its players linearly based on their strengths. A mechanism then specifies how the players from the two teams are matched up and how to score them. There are two types of manipulations by a team: Misreporting the strength ordering and deliberately losing a match. To identify these strategically b...

Submission to the CAESAR competition AES - COPA

A Submission to CAESAR Competition for Authenticated Encryption

This paper presents the Code-Book Authentication mode (CBA), a submission to the CAESAR competition for authenticated encryption. CBA is a blockcipher mode of encryption that provides confidentiality and authenticity for plaintexts and authenticity for associated data. The proposed mode improves the OCB mode in the sense that it saves up to one blockcipher call to encrypt and authenticate the p...

Gender differences in team work and team competition

We study whether the gender performance gap is affected by the gender composition of teams. A real-effort experiment is employed with wages based either on the team’s performance, or on the outcome of a competition between teams. We find that, relative to a single-sex environment, gender diversity increases the gender performance gap with team pay whereas it decreases the gap with team competit...

team teaching in english for academic purpose classrooms

تحقیق حاضر به منظور بررسی کارآیی بین دو روش تدریس زبان انگلیسی با اهداف دانشگاهی به نامهای تدریس گروهی و تدریس انفرادی انجام شد. بدین منظور، سه کلاس انگلیسی با اهداف دانشگاهی مربوط به دانشجویان رشته جغرافیا، کامپیوتر و فقه و حقوق به روش گروهی توسط یک مدرس زبان انگلیسی و یک مدرس درس تخصصی در استان یزد در طول ترم پاییز سال تحصیلی 1390-1389 تدریس گردید. همزمان، سه کلاس زبان انگلیسی دیگر با اهداف د...