We apply control theoretic and optimization techniques to adaptively design incentives for principal-agent problems in which the principal faces adverse selection its interaction with multiple agents. In particular, principal's objective depends on data from strategic decision makers (agents) whose decision-making process is unknown a priori. consider both cases where agents play best response ...

301 ABSTRACT: The essence of low carbon economy development is a continuous evolution and innovation process of socio-economic system from traditional high carbon economy to new sustainable green low carbon economy to achieve a sustainable dynamic balance and benign interactive development of various elements between society, economy and natural ecosystem. At the current stage, China’s socio-ec...

We integrate psychological and socio-structural perspectives on empowerment by examining: a) the impact of actual structural empowerment initiatives (as opposed to perceptions of such empowering acts) aimed at enhancing employee influence over which tasks to perform (as opposed to how to perform them) on employee well-being and performance, b) the degree to which selfefficacy mediates these eff...

World population has already exceeded 6.5 billion, out of which about 850 million (13 percent) are undernourished. With the current growth rate, the world community faces even a greater challenge of hunger and food security as the estimated the population will catch 9 billion by the year 2050 with doubled needs for food. At the same time, preservation of biodiversity, stopping deforestation and...

Some of the greatest advances in web search have come from leveraging socio-economic properties of online user behavior. Past advances include PageRank, anchor text, hubsauthorities, and TF-IDF. In this paper, we investigate another socio-economic property that, to our knowledge, has not yet been exploited: sites that create lists of entities, such as IMDB and Netflix, have an incentive to avoi...

This paper reports results from a cross-sectional study of 290 consecutive Invalidity Benefit cases in the north-west of England referred to the Benefits Agency Medical Service in 1994. The hypothesis is that socio-economic factors, such as high locality unemployment rates, may be implicated, not only in the initial causation of ill health, but also in its continuance, by giving incentive to th...