WASCON 2015: Resource Efficiency in Construction

Resource Efficiency in Development Cooperation

Efficiency in Intrahousehold Resource Allocation

This paper examines the allocation of productive resources within rural households of poor countries. Building upon the existing literature, it provides a consistent framework from which to study productive efficiency and intrahousehold equity. The topics discussed include returns to scale and household centralization; specialization and gender casting; separate spheres and commitment failure; ...

Efficiency of antlion trap construction.

Assessing the architectural optimality of animal constructions is in most cases extremely difficult, but is feasible for antlion larvae, which dig simple pits in sand to catch ants. Slope angle, conicity and the distance between the head and the trap bottom, known as off-centring, were measured using a precise scanning device. Complete attack sequences in the same pits were then quantified, wit...

The zero resource speech challenge 2015

The Interspeech 2015 Zero Resource Speech Challenge aims at discovering subword and word units from raw speech. The challenge provides the first unified and open source suite of evaluation metrics and data sets to compare and analyse the results of unsupervised linguistic unit discovery algorithms. It consists of two tracks. In the first, a psychophysically inspired evaluation task (minimal pai...

Space Efficiency in Synopsis Construction Algorithms

Histograms and Wavelet synopses have been found to be useful in query optimization, approximate query answering and mining. Over the last few years several good synopsis algorithms have been proposed. These have mostly focused on the running time of the synopsis constructions, optimum or approximate, vis-a-vis their quality. However the space complexity of synopsis construction algorithms has n...