Markets for Scientific Attribution

Applying Provenance to Protect Attribution in Distributed Computational Scientific Experiments

The automation of large scale computational scientific experiments can be accomplished with the use of scientific workflow management systems, which allow for the definition of their activities and data dependencies. The manual analysis of the data resulting from their execution is burdensome, due to the usually large amounts of information. Provenance systems can be used to support this task s...

Whose idea was this? Deciding attribution in scientific literature

For a variety of discourse level analyses and tasks performed on scientific literature, it is necessary to identify which (if any) cited paper the discourse entities in focus are attributable to. In this paper we introduce a scientific attribution task that aims to associate a range of linguistic expressions such as definite descriptions, pronouns and “work” nouns with specific cited papers. We...

The Implications of Improved Attribution and Measurability for Antitrust and Privacy in Online Advertising Markets

The digital revolution has often been heralded for the transformation it has produced in advertising. The ability to collect data about the individual, automatically parse it, and then serve ads on that basis has transformed advertisers’ ability to target ads and show specific ads to specific groups of consumers. This targeting revolution has led to the emergence of paid search advertising, whe...

PERFORMANCE ATTRIBUTION FOR EQUITY PORTFOLIOS Performance Attribution for Equity Portfolios

Many portfolio managers measure performance with reference to a benchmark. The difference in return between a portfolio and its benchmark is the active return of the portfolio. Portfolio managers and their clients want to know what caused this active return. Performance attribution decomposes the active return. The two most common approaches are the Brinson-Hood-Beebower (hereafter referred to ...

Seabird Databases and the New Paradigm for Scientific Publication and Attribution