Under the Hood at GM

Take a look under the hood.

Quick Look under the Hood of ABC

ABC is similar to SIS/MVSIS in that it processes the design by applying a sequence of transformations to the current network, which is stored in memory during the runtime. Initially, the current network is created by reading the design specification from file. The current network is modified step by step by applying individual synthesis commands and can be written out in the end for future use....

Under the Hood of Grammatical Evolution

Grammatical Evolution (GE) is a grammar based GA to generate computer programs which has been shown to be comparable with GP when applied to a diverse array of problems. GE has the distinction that its input is a BNF, which permits it to generate programs in any language, of arbitrary complexity, including loops, multiple line functions etc. Part of the power of GE is that it is closer to natur...

Robin Hood Under the Hood: Wealth-Based Discrimination in Illicit Customer Help

This paper investigates whether an employee's perception of customer wealth affects their likelihood of engaging in illegal behavior. We propose that envy and empathy lead employees to discriminate in illicitly helping customers based on customer wealth. We test for this hypothesis in the vehicle emissions testing market, where employees have the opportunity to illegally help customers by passi...

Looking Under the Hood of the Cadillac Tax.

One effect of the Affordable Care Act's "Cadillac tax" (now delayed until 2020) is to undo part of the existing federal tax preference for employer-sponsored insurance. The specific features of this tax on high-cost health plans--notably, the inclusion of tax-favored savings vehicles such as health savings accounts (HSAs) in the formula for determining who is subject to the tax--are designed pr...