Th is research empirically assesses the quality of evidence that agencies provided to the Offi ce of Management and Budget in the application of the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART), introduced in 2002 to more rigorously, systematically, and transparently assess public program eff ectiveness and hold agencies accountable for results by tying them to the executive budget formulation process...

The Strength Pareto Evolutionary Algorithm (SPEA) (Zitzler and Thiele 1999) is a relatively recent technique for finding or approximating the Pareto-optimal set for multiobjective optimization problems. In different studies (Zitzler and Thiele 1999; Zitzler, Deb, and Thiele 2000) SPEA has shown very good performance in comparison to other multiobjective evolutionary algorithms, and therefore it...

To handle the constrained multi-objective evolutionary optimization problems, the authors firstly analyze Deb’s constrained-domination principle (DCDP) and point out that it more likely stick into local optimum on these problems with two or more disconnected feasible regions. Secondly, to handle constraints in multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs), a new constraint handling strategy is p...

We study a preferred equity infusion government program set to mitigate interbank contagion. Financial institutions are prone to insolvency risk channeled through the network of interbank debt and to the risk of bank runs. The government seeks to maximize, under budget constraints, the total net worth of the financial system or, equivalently, to minimize the dead-weight losses induced by bank r...

Real world optimization problems are often too complex to be solved through analytical means. Evolutionary algorithms, a class of algorithms that borrow paradigms from nature, are particularly well suited to address such problems. These algorithms are stochastic methods of optimization that have become immensely popular recently, because they are derivative-free methods, are not as prone to get...

The Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory has become a fundamental tool in modeling the metabolic behaviour of organisms. Its capacity to describe the biological aspect of life alone justifies its applicability in Artificial Life. Aware of this potential, the DEB research group in Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Lisbon has joined the videogame company Biodroid Entertainment in the Life Engine ...

Chip Multicore processor provides the opportunity to boost sequential program performance with the available duplicated hardware resources in the cores. Previous results have shown that most of sequential programs can benefit from a large and fast instruction window. In this paper, we propose a simple method to faster sequential program execution on a chip multicore processor through organizing...

Relationships between State Medicaid program characteristics and program outputs are analyzed in this statistical report, using 1980 cross-sectional data from a variety of sources. The year 1980 furnishes a baseline against which program changes following the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 and the 1982 economic recession can be evaluated. Utilization and expenditures are modeled sepa...