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Policy Capacity Under Decentralization: Kindergarten Education Reforms in the Philippines

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paper examines the relationship between policy capacity and policy effectiveness in decentralized governance setups. It challenges the conventional view that policy functions should only be decentralized when requisite capacities already exist at lower levels of government. Instead, the paper proposes that capacity can follow function ‐ as
Kidjie Ian Saguin, M. Ramesh
wiley   +1 more source

Online Selection of CMA-ES Variants

, 2019
In the field of evolutionary computation, one of the most challenging topics is algorithm selection. Knowing which heuristics to use for which optimization problem is key to obtaining high-quality solutions. We aim to extend this research topic by taking
Bäck, Thomas, Doerr, Carola, van Rijn, Sander, Vermetten, Diederick   +3 more
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Working with OpenCL to Speed Up a Genetic Programming Financial Forecasting Algorithm: Initial Results [PDF]

, 2014
The genetic programming tool EDDIE has been shown to be a successful financial forecasting tool, however it has suffered from an increase in execution time as new features have been added. Speed is an important aspect in financial problems, especially in
Backus J., Edwards R., Koza J., Martinez-Jaramillo S.   +3 more
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The power of expressed humility: Early stage investors' reaction to humble entrepreneurs

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary We examine how entrepreneur‐expressed humility affects early stage investors' willingness to fund new ventures. In pitching contexts where investors rely on relational cues and implicit prototypes of entrepreneurs, we theorize three distinct pathways through which expressed humility shapes funding decisions. First, building on
Laurent Vilanova, Ivana Vitanova
wiley   +1 more source

Scheduling the Australian football league [PDF]

, 2017
Generating a schedule for a professional sports league is an extremely demanding task. Good schedules have many benefits for the league, such as higher attendance and TV viewership, lower costs, and increased fairness.
Goossens, Dries, Kyngäs, Jari, Kyngäs, Nico, Lilley, George, Nurmi, Kimmo, Salter, Thea   +5 more
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Fragment‐Block: A Novel Approach for Managing Variability in Software Product Lines

Software: Practice and Experience, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Changes in the functionality of a software product line (SPL) can generate various issues in the SPL source code. Their complexity depends primarily on the amount of changes in the SPL source code and the internal mechanisms for managing variability. Further, modern development frameworks rely on a variety of artefacts besides source
Junior Cupe Casquina, Leonardo Montecchi
wiley   +1 more source

Fuzzy adaptive parameter control of a late acceptance hyper-heuristic [PDF]

, 2014
A traditional iterative selection hyper-heuristic which manages a set of low level heuristics relies on two core components, a method for selecting a heuristic to apply at a given point, and a method to decide whether or not to accept the result of the ...
Jackson, Warren G., John, Robert I., Özcan, Ender   +2 more
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A Universal Meta‐Heuristic Framework for Influence Maximisation in Hypergraphs

CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Influence maximisation (IM) aims to select a small number of nodes that are able to maximise their influence in a network and covers a wide range of applications. Despite numerous attempts to provide effective solutions in simple networks, higher‐order interactions between entities in various real‐world systems are usually not taken into ...
Ming Xie, Chuang Liu, Yang Chen, Zi‐Ke Zhang, Xiaoyang Liu, Xiu‐Xiu Zhan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems: Are Hyper-Heuristics a Feasible Approach When Dealing With the Pod Allocation and Item Storage Problems?

IEEE Access
The rise of online shopping has forced warehouses to improve their operations to keep up with demand. In this work, we focus on a warehouse type known as the Robotic Mobile Fulfillment System (RMFS).
Toby Yung, Maria Torcoroma Benavides-Robles, Jose Carlos Ortiz-Bayliss, Ivan Amaya   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

An iterated multi-stage selection hyper-heuristic [PDF]

, 2015
There is a growing interest towards the design of reusable general purpose search methods that are applicable to different problems instead of tailored solutions to a single particular problem. Hyper-heuristics have emerged as such high level methods that
Ahmed Kheiri, Asta, Asta, Asta, Bilgin, Burke, Burke, Burke, Burke, Burke, Burke, Burke, Burke, Chakhlevitch, Chakhlevitch, Cowling, Cowling, Di Gaspero, Drake, Drake, Ender Özcan, Fagerland, García-Villoria, Hsiao, Jackson, Kalender, Kalender, Kheiri, Kheiri, Kheiri, Kruskal, Lehre, Lourenço, Misir, Ochoa, Ochoa, Pillay, Rahman, Soria-Alcaraz, Swan, Özcan, Özcan, Özcan, Özcan, Özcan   +44 more
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