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Constant-Deposit Multiparty Lotteries on Bitcoin for Arbitrary Number of Players and Winners
Secure lottery is a cryptographic protocol that allows multiple players to determine a winner from them uniformly at random, without any trusted...
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b-it-bots: Winners of RoboCup@Work 2023
This paper outlines the approach used by the b-it-bots team to win the 2023 RoboCup@Work World Championship in Bordeaux. We describe the updates in...
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Generalized kings and single-elimination winners in random tournaments
Tournaments can be used to model a variety of practical scenarios including sports competitions and elections. A natural notion of strength of...
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Predicting Digital Winners and Losers in Economic Crises Using Artificial Intelligence and Open Government Data
In market-based economies often appear significant decreases of economic activity, which lead to recessionary economic crises. These economic crises...
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Exponential distribution optimizer (EDO): a novel math-inspired algorithm for global optimization and engineering problems
Numerous optimization problems can be addressed using metaheuristics instead of deterministic and heuristic approaches. This study proposes a novel...
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Reach for the stars: disentangling quantity and quality of inventors’ productivity in a multifaceted latent variable model
Star inventors generate superior innovation outcomes. Their capacity to invent high-quality patents might be decisive beyond mere productivity....
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Exploring the clinical translation intensity of papers published by the world’s top scientists in basic medicine
The extent to which basic medical research is translated into clinical practice is a topic of interest to all stakeholders. In this study, we...
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On partial information retrieval: the unconstrained 100 prisoner problem
We consider a generalization of the classical 100 prisoner problem and its variant, involving empty boxes, whereby winning probabilities for a team...
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Recognition and longevity: an examination of award timing and lifespan in Nobel laureates
Using data for 387 Nobel Prize winners in physics, chemistry, or physiology/medicine from 1901 to 2000, this study focuses on the relation between...
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Improving Implementation of SAT Competitions 2017–2019 Winners
The results of annual SAT competitions are often viewed as the milestones showcasing the progress in SAT solvers. However, their competitive nature...
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Finally! How time lapse in Nobel Prize reception affects emotionality in the Nobel Prize banquet speeches
We have a limited understanding of the role emotions play in academia, as exploring emotions consistently and comparably is challenging due to the...
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Understanding peer review of software engineering papers
ContextPeer review is a key activity intended to preserve the quality and integrity of scientific publications. However, in practice it is far from...
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Strategic Nominee Selection in Tournament Solutions
Tournament solutions provide methods of selecting winners of a competition based on the results of pairwise comparisons. These methods have been...
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A Tripartite View on Performance Matrices of Live Commerce
Live commerce is a novel form of social commerce in which streamers engage following fans through real-time interactions and deliver vivid...
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Ranking of author assessment parameters using Logistic Regression
The renowned international scientific societies nominate researchers for awards based on qualitative judgments every year. Qualitative judgment uses...
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Formulation of rules for the scientific community using deep learning
In a deluge of scientific literature, it is important to build scientific quantitative rules (SQR) that can be applied to researchers' quantitative...
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On the improvement of handwritten text line recognition with octave convolutional recurrent neural networks
Off-line handwritten text recognition (HTR) poses a significant challenge due to the complexities of variable handwriting styles, background...
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In search of a scientific elite: highly cited researchers (HCR) in France
A high level of citations is generally associated with the exceptional influence of an article. Authors of several highly cited articles are thus...
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Efficient loss updated XGBoost with deep emended genetic algorithm for detecting online fraudulent transactions
In the fast-paced technological era, online financial transactions have gained widespread use as it offers significant merits to customers for easy...
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Parameterized complexity of candidate nomination for elections based on positional scoring rules
Consider elections where the set of candidates is partitioned into parties, and each party must nominate exactly one candidate. The P ossible P resident ...
