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Optimal and Myopic Information Acquisition
We consider the problem of optimal dynamic information acquisition from many
correlated information sources. Each period, the decision-maker jointly takes
an action and allocates a fixed number of observations across the available
sources. His payoff depends on the actions taken and on an unknown state. In
the canonical setting of jointly normal information sources, we show that the
optimal dynamic information acquisition rule proceeds myopically after finitely
many periods. If signals are acquired in large blocks each period, then the
optimal rule turns out to be myopic from period 1. These results demonstrate
the possibility of robust and "simple" optimal information acquisition, and
simplify the analysis of dynamic information acquisition in a widely used
informational environment
Proteinlike behavior of a spin system near the transition between ferromagnet and spin glass
A simple spin system is studied as an analog for proteins. We investigate how
the introduction of randomness and frustration into the system effects the
designability and stability of ground state configurations. We observe that the
spin system exhibits protein-like behavior in the vicinity of the transition
between ferromagnet and spin glass.
Our results illuminate some guiding principles in protein evolution.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure
Regularized Decomposition of High-Dimensional Multistage Stochastic Programs with Markov Uncertainty
We develop a quadratic regularization approach for the solution of
high-dimensional multistage stochastic optimization problems characterized by a
potentially large number of time periods/stages (e.g. hundreds), a
high-dimensional resource state variable, and a Markov information process. The
resulting algorithms are shown to converge to an optimal policy after a finite
number of iterations under mild technical assumptions. Computational
experiments are conducted using the setting of optimizing energy storage over a
large transmission grid, which motivates both the spatial and temporal
dimensions of our problem. Our numerical results indicate that the proposed
methods exhibit significantly faster convergence than their classical
counterparts, with greater gains observed for higher-dimensional problems
Assimilation of Voicing in Czech Speakers of English: The Effect of the Degree of Accentedness
Czech and English are languages which differ with respect to the implementation of voicing. Unlike in English, there is a considerable agreement between phonological (systemic) and phonetic (actual) voicing in Czech, and, more importantly, the two languages have different strategies for the assimilation of voicing across the word boundary. The present study investigates the voicing in word-final obstruents in Czech speakers of English with the specific aim of ascertaining whether the degree of the speakers’ foreign accent correlates with the way they treat English obstruents in assimilatory contexts. L2 speakers, divided into three groups of varying accentedness, were examined employing categorization and a voicing profile method for establishing the presence/absence of voicing. The results suggest that speakers with a different degree of Czech accent do differ in their realization of voicing in the way predicted by a negative transfer of assimilatory habits from Czech
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