abstract physical injuries during taekwondo competitions often happen due to physical contacts during fighting; therefore, a training protocol was designed in line with the physiological stress of a real competition according to la, hr and rpe changes so that the athletes could perform the techniques with a pad instead of a real opponent. for this purpose, 12 professional taekwondo players from...

The judging procedure for Athenian dramatic contests is not well understood. In this paper, we present a new model that we believe takes account of all the relevant data, which possesses the additional virtue of clarity of execution, so that a large festival audience can easily follow the proceedings as the winner is determined publicly. It differs in certain important respects from other inter...

What do we want to learn from a translation competition and how do we learn it with confidence? We argue that a disproportionate focus on ranking competition participants has led to lots of different rankings, but little insight about which rankings we should trust. In response, we provide the first framework that allows an empirical comparison of different analyses of competition results. We t...

Relationships between buying and selling organizations in business markets are varied and complex. One important relationship is procurement, or the type of alliance that buyers form with sellers to fulfill their purchasing needs. Multiple sourcing is often proposed to prevent a variety ofprocurement problems. We develop a bidding model to investigate the effect of multiple sourcing on competit...

D esign competitions are becoming increasingly common , especially in the field of mobile robots. The sponsorship of such competitions ranges from local clubs of enthusiasts to large professional organizations , such as the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), which sponsors the annual AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition as part of their annual conference. Awards fo...

Abstract We formulate two fairness principles and characterize the league competition systems that satisfy them. The first principle requires all players should have same chance of being final winner if are equally strong, while second states not favor weaker players. apply these requirements to a class which includes round-robin tournaments as particular case.

1 Computing Science Department of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. [email protected] 2 Information Systems and Statistics, Westf. Wilhelmsuniversität Münster, Germany. [email protected] 3 Nantes Atlantic Computer Science Laboratory (LINA) of the Université de Nantes, France. [email protected] 4 Cognitive Science and Psycholinguistics (LSCP) of ENS Ulm, Par...

in it no longer achieving the functionality for which it was originally intended. Diagnostic algorithms (DAs) (1) detect malfunctioning systems, (2) isolate the faulty component or components that cause the malfunction, and possibly (3) repair the system to restore its functionality. The fundamental challenge of diagnosis is that the system is only partially observable. Therefore, diagnostic al...