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WINE
2007
Springer
126views Economy» more  WINE 2007»
14 years 4 months ago
A Theory of Loss-Leaders: Making Money by Pricing Below Cost
We consider the problem of assigning prices to goods of fixed marginal cost in order to maximize revenue in the presence of single-minded customers. We focus in particular on the...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, T.-H. Hubert Cha...
CIG
2006
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Fun in Slots
— People play games for fun. Yet we are lacking a fundamental understanding of what fun is and how fun works in games and other media. For example, why do thousands of people spe...
Kevin Burns
IJCNN
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
How Not to Evaluate a Developmental System
—Computational models of development aim to describe the mechanisms that underlie the acquisition of new skills or the emergence of new capabilities. The strength of a model is j...
Frederick Shic, Brian Scassellati
ICRA
2005
IEEE
97views Robotics» more  ICRA 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
Cognitive Based Neural Prosthetics
– Intense activity in neural prosthetic research has recently demonstrated the possibility of robotic interfaces that respond directly to the nervous system. The question remains...
Richard A. Andersen, Sam Musallam, Joel W. Burdick...
NIME
2005
Springer
136views Music» more  NIME 2005»
14 years 3 months ago
Learning Advanced Skills on New Instruments (or practising scales and arpeggios on your NIME)
When learning a classical instrument, people often either take lessons in which an existing body of “technique” is delivered, evolved over generations of performers, or in som...
Sageev Oore