Participatory sensing is a powerful paradigm that leverages information sent by smartphone users to collect fine-grained information on events of interest. Given participatory sensing applications rely completely on the users’ willingness to submit up-to-date and reliable information, it is paramount to effectively incentivize users’ active and reliable participation. In this paper, we survey e...

My thesis focuses on the design of systems to augment existing e-learning software in a way that supports both teachers and students. It addresses three central challenges: personalization of educational content to students, techniques for machine-generated interventions, and incentive designs to enhance students’ learning. For each of these problems I will synthesizes approaches from informati...

Economic Incentives and International Trade by Dalia Marin and Monika Schnitzer This paper studies the importance of incentives as a determinant of international trade flows. We argue that barter, countertrade and foreign direct investment can be seen as efficient institutions that mitigate contractual hazards which arise in technology trade, marketing and imperfect capital markets. Paying an i...

Combinatorial optimization problems in the real world are ubiquitous. Practical applications include planning, scheduling, distributed control, resource allocation, etc. These problems often involve multiple agents and can be formulated as a Multiagent Constraint Optimization Problem (MCOP). A major challenge in such systems is the agent coordination, such that a global optimal outcome is achie...

The split incentive problem concerns the lack of appropriate incentives to implement energy efficiency measures. In particular, low income tenants face a phenomenon of energy poverty in which they allocate significantly more of their household income to energy expenditures than other renters. This problem is substantial, affecting 1.89% of all United States' energy use. If effectively addressed...

Background The dearth of health workers in rural settings in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) and other developing countries limits healthcare access and outcomes. In evaluating non-wage financial incentive packages as a potential policy option to attract health workers to rural settings, understanding the expected costs and effects of the various programs ex antecan assist policy-makers ...

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 The implementation of Fiscal Decentralization is expected to significantly affect the dynamics regional development and economic performance, regarding central government transfer various zones through RIF (Regional Incentive Funds). These funds are optimal during COVID-19 pandemic when financial capacity for country directed more evenly with desires several regions, develop area...