Random priority item allocation
Random priority (RP), also called Random serial dictatorship (RSD), is a procedure for fair random assignment - dividing ... "Random Serial Dictatorship and the Core from Random Endowments in House Allocation Problems". Econometrica. 66 (3): 689. doi: ... RSD is not ex-ante PE when the agents have Von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities over random allocations, i.e., lotteries over ... Sec.2 When the rankings of the agents over the objects are drawn uniformly at random, the probability that the allocation given ...
Course allocation
Budish, Eric; Che, Yeon-Koo; Kojima, Fuhito; Milgrom, Paul (2013-04-01). "Designing Random Allocation Mechanisms: Theory and ... Other mechanisms for course allocation include fair random assignment, stable matching, and optimization based mechanisms. ... Course allocation is the problem of allocating seats in university courses among students. Many universities impose an upper ... The choosing order is random at the first round, and then reverses in subsequent rounds. In practice, students do not have to ...
Balls into bins problem
... both with random allocation and with partially random allocation. In a repeated variant of the process, m {\displaystyle m} ... 0 {\displaystyle c>0} .) Note that for m > n log n {\displaystyle m>n\log n} , the random allocation process gives only the ... A powerful balls-into-bins paradigm is the "power of two random choices" where each ball chooses two (or more) random bins and ... Kolchin, Valentin F. (1978). Random allocations. Washington: Winston [usw.] ISBN 978-0470993941. Kotz, Samuel; Johnson, Norman ...
Simultaneous eating algorithm
Checking whether a given random allocation can be implemented by a lottery over EF1 and PO allocations is NP-hard. Babaioff, ... A variant of SE was applied also to cake-cutting, where the allocation is deterministic (not random). Each item is represented ... Budish, Eric; Che, Yeon-Koo; Kojima, Fuhito; Milgrom, Paul (2013-04-01). "Designing Random Allocation Mechanisms: Theory and ... The SE allocation satisfies SD-efficiency - a weak ordinal variant of Pareto-efficiency (it means that the allocation is Pareto ...
Fair random assignment
Fair item allocation is a setting in which agents may get more than one item. Sortition - random selection of political ... Tao and Cole study the existence of PE and EF random allocations when the utilities are non-linear (can have complements). ... Budish, Eric; Che, Yeon-Koo; Kojima, Fuhito; Milgrom, Paul (2013-04-01). "Designing Random Allocation Mechanisms: Theory and ... When there are 3 or more objects (and 3 or more agents), RP and PS may return different allocations, and no allocation Pareto- ...
Paul Milgrom
Lotteries were fast, but clearly a random allocation of licenses left much to be desired in terms of efficiency. Neither of ... Budish, E.; Che, Y.-K.; Kojima, F.; Milgrom, Paul (2013). "Designing Random Allocation Mechanisms: Theory and Applications". ... Auctions offered great potential in terms of obtaining an efficient allocation of licenses and also capturing some of the value ... His work on auctions with Robert Weber introduced the concept of affiliation of random variables, to indicate systems of ...
Birkhoff algorithm
One such application is for the problem of fair random assignment: given a randomized allocation of items, Birkhoff's algorithm ... Budish, Eric; Che, Yeon-Koo; Kojima, Fuhito; Milgrom, Paul (2013-04-01). "Designing Random Allocation Mechanisms: Theory and ... To attain fairness, the allocation is randomized: for each (person, object) pair, a probability is calculated, such that the ... Ye, Felix X.-F.; Wang, Yue; Qian, Hong (2016). "Stochastic dynamics: Markov chains and random transformations". Discrete and ...
Fuhito Kojima
Budish, Eric; Che, Yeon-Koo; Kojima, Fuhito; Milgrom, Paul (2013). "Designing Random Allocation Mechanisms: Theory and ... Che, Yeon-Koo; Kojima, Fuhito (2010). "Asymptotic equivalence of probabilistic serial and random priority mechanisms" (PDF). ...
Random serial dictatorship
A specific rule for item allocation - see random priority item allocation. This disambiguation page lists articles associated ... Random serial dictatorship, also called random priority, can refer to: A general rule for social choice - a variant of the ... with the title Random serial dictatorship. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly ...
The King's (The Cathedral) School
Pupil allocation to houses is random, but siblings generally follow through the same House. When there was a boarding house, ...
Cloud load balancing
Biased Random Sampling bases its job allocation on the network represented by a directed graph. For each execution node in this ... In-degree will decrease during job execution while out-degree will increase after job allocation. Active Clustering is a self- ... "Active Clustering and Random Sampling Walk predictably perform better as the number of processing nodes is increased" while ...
Nancy E. Heckman
Her dissertation, supervised by Michael B. Woodroofe, was Two Treatment Comparison with Random Allocation Rule. Heckman's ...
Sunspots (economics)
They call the random variable a sunspot and the resulting allocation is a 'sunspot equilibrium'. Much work on sunspot ... In economics, the term sunspots (or sometimes "a sunspot") refers to an extrinsic random variable, that is, a random variable ... In other words, the outcome depends on an "extrinsic" random variable, meaning a random influence that matters only because ... David Cass and Karl Shell coined the term sunspots as a suggestive and less technical way of saying "extrinsic random variable ...
Fractional Pareto efficiency
"Envy-Free and Pareto-Optimal Allocations for Agents with Asymmetric Random Valuations". arXiv:2109.08971 [cs.GT]. (CS1 errors: ... An allocation y is called a Pareto improvement of an allocation z, if the utility of all agents in y is at least as large as in ... A discrete allocation is called Pareto-efficient (PO) if it is not Pareto-dominated by any discrete allocation; it is called ... So fPO is a stronger requirement than PO: every fPO allocation is PO, but not every PO allocation is fPO. There is a set of n ...
IOS
Future kernel_map (and submap) allocations are pushed forward by a random amount. The allocation is silently removed after the ... A random 9-bit value is generated right after kmem_init() which establishes kernel_map, is multiplied by the page size. The ... A hardware random number generator is also included as a part of this coprocessor. Each device's Secure Enclave has a unique ID ... The kernel image base is randomized by the boot loader (iBoot). This is done by creating random data, doing a SHA-1 hash of it ...
Randomized experiment
A/B testing Allocation concealment Random assignment Randomized block design Randomized controlled trial Schulz KF, Altman DG, ... Trudy Dehue (December 1997). "Deception, Efficiency, and Random Groups: Psychology and the Gradual Origination of the Random ...
Free-space bitmap
Fast random-access allocation check: Checking whether a sector is free is as simple as checking the corresponding bit. Fast ...
Vitamin E
Glynn RJ, Ridker PM, Goldhaber SZ, Zee RY, Buring JE (September 2007). "Effects of random allocation to vitamin E ...
2011 Ironman World Championship
Entry into the race can also be obtained through a random allocation lottery or through the Ironman's charitable eBay auction. ...
2010 UEFA Super Cup
... a random ballot will occur to determine ticket allocation. 27 August 2010 20:45 CEST Stade Louis II, Monaco Attendance: 17,265 ...
Vector space model
Random Projections and Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Weka. Weka is a popular data mining package for Java including WordVectors ... Generalized vector space model Latent semantic analysis Term Rocchio Classification Random indexing Search Engine Optimization ...
2012 Ironman World Championship
Entry into the championship race could also be obtained through a random allocation lottery or through the Ironman's charitable ...
2013 Ironman World Championship
Entry into the championship race could also be obtained through a random allocation lottery or through the Ironman's charitable ...
Cohen's kappa
Kappa's baseline agreement is the agreement that would be expected due to random allocation, given the quantities specified by ... Thus, κ = 0 when the observed allocation is apparently random, regardless of the quantity disagreement as constrained by the ... The disagreement is due to allocation because quantities are identical. Kappa is −0.07. Here, reporting quantity and allocation ... So the expected probability that both would say yes at random is: p Yes = a + b a + b + c + d ⋅ a + c a + b + c + d = 0.5 × 0.6 ...
Efficient envy-free division
Tao and Cole study the existence of PEEF random allocations when the utilities are non-linear (can have complements). ... For three or more agents with linear utilities, any Nash-optimal allocation is PEEF. A Nash-optimal allocation is an allocation ... Theorem 5 (Svensson):: 531 if all Pareto-optimal allocations are sigma-optimal, then PEEF allocations exist. PEEF allocations ... The allocation X is called sigma-optimal if for every k, the allocation Xk is Pareto-optimal. Lemma:: 528 An allocation is ...
Nanjing Foreign Language School
... but with an additional preliminary random allocation procedure executed by a computer. For instance, assume for year 2009 the ... An open computer allocation carried out by the Student Recruitment Committee Office of Nanjing will be needed if the number of ...
Dictatorship mechanism
... see random priority item allocation. Allan Gibbard proved the random dictatorship theorem. It says that, when preferences are ... In the random dictatorship (RD) rule, one of the voters is selected uniformly at random, and the alternative most preferred by ... It is easy to implement both the RD and the RSD mechanisms in practice: just pick a random voter, or a random permutation, and ... This is one of the common rules for random social choice. When used in multi-constituency bodies, it is sometimes called random ...
List of statistical tools used in project management
... most commonly used in project management for time allocation and to analyse random variables. Critical path drag is a project ...
Inyathi High School
... with siblings also falling prey to the random house allocation. Once drafted, each student remains with the house throughout ...
LNWR Webb Coal Tank
They were renumbered from the LNWR's random allocation based on vacant numbers, to a solid block sequence 7550-7841, and given ...