Accuracy of predicting protein secondary structure and solvent accessibility has been improved significantly by using evolutionary information contained in multiple sequence alignments. For the second Asilomar meeting, predictions were made automatically for all targets using the publicly available prediction service PredictProtein. Additionally, a semiautomatic procedure for generating more in...

I hereby certify that all material in this final year project which is not my own work has been identified and that no work is included for which a degree has already been conferred on me. Abstract Business intelligence has fundamentally changed how many companies conduct their business. The focus of academic literature has however been on volume-operation companies that provide services to mil...

In this paper, we explore different strategies for implementing a crowdsourcing methodology for a single-step construction of an empirically-derived sense inventory and the corresponding sense-annotated corpus. We report on the crowdsourcing experiments using implementation strategies with different HIT costs, worker qualification testing, and locale restrictions. We describe multiple adjustmen...

We explore various models of decision making using an intermediate shortlisting step. The shortlisting and the final decision are done by two imprecise experts who may or may not be identical and/or independent. MSC 2000: Primary 91B06, Secondary 90B50 Introduction Decision-making processes often consist of more than one step: I Junior management or consultants analyze a large number of possibl...

Bayesian network modeling by domain experts is still mainly a process of trial and error. The structure of the graph and the specification of the conditional probability tables (ePTs) are in practice often fiddled until a desired model behavior is obtained. We describe a development tool in which graph specification and ePT modeling are fully separated. Furthermore, the tuning of ePTs is handle...

A sender can influence the behavior of a receiver by controlling the informativeness of a public signal. We show that the sender cannot benefit from becoming an expert, that is, from privately learning some information about the state. We then show that in some instances an uninformed sender is ex-ante strictly better off than an expert sender. JEL classification: D83.

We study the design of contracts that incentivize experts to collect information and truthfully report it a decision maker. depart from most previous literature by assuming transfers cannot depend on realized state or ex post payoff The contract thus has induce “monitor each other” making contingent entire vector reports. characterize least costly implements any given efforts derive cost functi...