There has been recent interest in applying Stackelberg games to infrastructure security, in which a defender must protect targets from attack by an adaptive adversary. In real-world security settings the adversaries are humans and are thus boundedly rational. Most existing approaches for computing defender strategies against boundedly rational adversaries try to optimize against specific behavi...

We apply a maximin criterion to examine the relative-efficiency (RE) of several Dq-optimal designs for a family of linear-mixed models. Incorrect specifications of the polynomial degree, size of the autocorrelation parameter, number of random parameters, and the correlation between random intercept and random slope are investigated. We found that the maximin Dq-optimal design encountered is hig...

Maximin H5 is an anionic antimicrobial peptide from amphibians, which carries a C-terminal amide moiety, and was found to be moderately haemolytic (20%). The α-helicity of the peptide was 42% in the presence of lipid mimics of erythrocyte membranes and was found able to penetrate (10.8 mN m(-1)) and lyse these model membranes (64 %). In contrast, the deaminated peptide exhibited lower levels of...

We propose the maximin support method, a novel extension of D'Hondt apportionment method to approval-based multiwinner elections. The is sequential procedure that aims maximize least supported elected candidate. It can be computed efficiently and satisfies (adjusted versions of) main properties original method: house monotonicity, population proportional representation. also establish close rel...

We present simple one-shot distribution experiments comparing the relative importance of efficiency, maximin preferences and inequality aversion, as well as the relative performance of the fairness theories by Bolton and Ockenfels (2000) and Fehr and Schmidt (1999). While the Fehr and Schmidt model performs better in a direct comparison, this appears to be due to being in line with maximin pref...

A central issue in the study of sustainable development is the interplay of growth and sacrifice in a dynamic economy. This paper investigates the relationship among current consumption, sacrifice and sustainability improvement in a general context and in two canonical, stylized economies. We argue that the maximin value of utility measures what is sustainable and provides the limit to growth. ...

We study the problem of allocating indivisible goods among n agents in a fair manner. For this problem, maximin share (MMS) is a well-studied solution concept which provides a fairness threshold. Specifically, maximin share is defined as the minimum utility that an agent can guarantee for herself when asked to partition the set of goods into n bundles such that the remaining (n− 1) agents pick ...

The problem of constructing standardized maximin D-optimal designs for weighted polynomial regression models is addressed. In particular it is shown that, by following the broad approach to the construction of maximin designs introduced recently by Dette, Haines and Imhof (2003), such designs can be obtained as weak limits of the corresponding Bayesian Φq-optimal designs. The approach is illust...