In the independent private values setting, we provide sufficient conditions for the continuity and uniqueness of the allpay auction equilibrium. We also provide an algorithm to compute the equilibrium. Preliminary and incomplete. Please, do not cite or quote without permission.

This paper will describe a way of assessing the post-editing effort for a specific project, language and engine combination. This serves as a tool for LSPs to estimate the necessary effort on the project and quote accordingly.

This is a survey article on the Hardy-Littlewood conjecture about primes in quadratic progressions. We recount the history and quote some results approximating this hitherto unresolved conjecture. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 11L07, 11L20, 11L40, 11N13, 11N32, 11N37

Agent user interfaces pose a number of special challenges for interface designers. These challenges can be formulated as a series of issues which must be addressed: understanding, trust, control, distraction, and personification. We examine each of these in turn and draw recommendations for designers in dealing with each of the issues as well as for the overall design of an agent interface base...

This paper presents a recurrent neural network framework for the problem of attributing spoken lines to characters in a screenplay or novel. We study these quotes as a sequence in the absence of additional context, e.g. descriptions of scenes or actions, from the text surrounding them. Instead, attributions may only be made on the basis of learned expectations for how each character speaks, as ...

We propose a method for using neural networks to attribute quotes in literary texts. Since previous work has been unable to successfully solve this problem based on bag-of-words features, we study the issue of whether this is due to the limited expressiveness of such features. By re-framing the modeling of quotes and characters as based off of word vectors, we hope to demonstrate that individua...

The information-level integration of suppliers in manufacturing processes becomes a critical requirement in mass customization cycles, where the increasing wealth of product variants may force the production of units of size one. As a consequence, transactional procurement activities should be carried out with the help of flexible automated support tools, in order to adjust production costs, qu...

Executive Summary We seek to establish a national program for research into the science of open source systems. Open source systems are beginning to appear in many diverse disciplines, though the area with perhaps the highest level of activity, visibility, and impact is free/open source software (FOSS) systems. FOSS systems are being researched and developed by fast growing communities of acade...