This paper analyzes the Taiwan mechanism used nationwide for high school assignment starting in 2014. In mechanism, points are deducted from an applicant’s score, with larger penalties lower-ranked choices. Deduction makes a hybrid of Boston and deferred acceptance mechanisms. Our analysis sheds light on why Taiwan’s new has led to massive demonstrations it nonetheless remains use. (JEL D47, I2...

Weapon Target Assignment is not only an important issue to use firepower, but also an important operational decision-making problem. As new intelligent algorithms, Genetic algorithm and ant colony algorithm are applied to solve Weapons-Target Assignment Problem. This paper introduces the Weapon-Target Assignment (WTA) and the mathematical model, and proposes ACGA algorithm which is the integrat...

STUDY DESIGN Use of a rule-based automated algorithm to determine sources of variability in radiographic classification. OBJECTIVES To determine whether unambiguous rules encoded in a computer program would ensure reliable classification. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Reliability problems have been identified in classifications used in surgical planning for patients with thoracic idiopathic sc...

Multi-label classification is concerned with the assignment of sets labels to individual data points. Due its diverse real-world applications, e.g., annotation text documents topics, it has become a well-established field machine learning research. Compared traditional classification, where classes are mutually exclusive, multi-label comes interesting challenges, most prominently requirement ta...

This paper presents methods for evaluating the effects of reallocating an indivisible input across production units. When production technology is nonseparable such reallocations, although leaving the marginal distribution of the reallocated input unchanged by construction, may nonetheless alter average output. Examples include reallocations of teachers across classrooms composed of students of...

Webpage classification plays an important role in information organization and retrieval. It involves assignment of one webpage to one or more than one predetermined categories. The uncontrolled features of web content implies that more work is required for webpage classification compared with traditional text classification. The interconnected nature of hyper text, however, carries some featur...

We estimate the effect on recidivism of replacing time served in a common closed-cell prison with an open-cell one. deal endogenous assignment inmates to different regimes using variation that is driven by nearby prisons’ overcrowding. Switching for year reduces around 6 percentage points. The effects are largest low levels education and weak violent hardened criminals. (JEL K14, K42)