The Future of Energy Regulation and Policy Development: A Summary Paper

In September 2013, The School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary hosted 19 speakers and 55 delegates in Calgary for a full-day symposium entitled “The Future of Energy Regulation and Policy Development: Conflict, Compromise or Cooperation?” Participants included current and past regulatory officials at the federal and provincial or state levels in both Canada and the United States, academics, lawyers active in regulatory matters, and representatives from industry and non-governmental organizations. Symposium chair Michal Moore (Area Director, Energy and Environmental Policy at The School of Public Policy) challenged participants to imagine what the “next regulatory world” would look like and what we want the regulator of the future to look like, and to consider the future success of energy regulation. The discussion on the role and the future of the energy regulator was wide-ranging and thought-provoking. This paper summarizes the discussion and main themes; policy-related implications and observations arising from the symposium are presented in the conclusion

Brief history of the Lehmann Symposia: Origins, goals and motivation

The idea of the Lehmann Symposia as platforms to encourage a revival of interest in fundamental questions in theoretical statistics, while keeping in focus issues that arise in contemporary interdisciplinary cutting-edge scientific problems, developed during a conversation that I had with Victor Perez Abreu during one of my visits to Centro de Investigaci\'{o}n en Matem\'{a}ticas (CIMAT) in Guanajuato, Mexico. Our goal was and has been to showcase relevant theoretical work to encourage young researchers and students to engage in such work. The First Lehmann Symposium on Optimality took place in May of 2002 at Centro de Investigaci\'{o}n en Matem\'{a}ticas in Guanajuato, Mexico. A brief account of the Symposium has appeared in Vol. 44 of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics series of Lecture Notes and Monographs. The volume also contains several works presented during the First Lehmann Symposium. All papers were refereed. The program and a picture of the participants can be found on-line at the website http://www.stat.rice.edu/lehmann/lst-Lehmann.html.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/074921706000000347 in the IMS Lecture Notes--Monograph Series (http://www.imstat.org/publications/lecnotes.htm) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org

Shaw, William H

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Traffic agents for improving QoS in mixed infrastructure and ad hoc modes wireless LAN

As an important complement to infrastructured wireless networks, mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) are more flexible in providing wireless access services, but more difficult in meeting different quality of service (QoS) requirements for mobile customers. Both infrastructure and ad hoc network structures are supported in wireless local area networks (WLAN), which can offer high data-rate wireless multimedia services to the mobile stations (MSs) in a limited geographical area. For those out-of-coverage MSs, how to effectively connect them to the access point (AP) and provide QoS support is a challenging issue. By mixing the infrastructure and the ad hoc modes in WLAN, we propose in this paper a new coverage improvement scheme that can identify suitable idle MSs in good service zones as traffic agents (TAs) to relay traffic from those out-of-coverage MSs to the AP. The service coverage area of WLAN is then expanded. The QoS requirements (e.g., bandwidth) of those MSs are considered in the selection process of corresponding TAs. Mathematical analysis, verified by computer simulations, shows that the proposed TA scheme can effectively reduce blocking probability when traffic load is light

Education as if Research Mattered

This symposium was a platform for four teacher-researchers (Gauld, Green, Huxtable and Leigh) to present their research undertaken during a period of secondment. The secondments were funded as part of a successful partnership bid to the Scottish Government Initiative to Facilitate an Increase in Masters-Level Learning, by Dumfries and Galloway Council - led by Brydson - and the University of Glasgow Dumfries Campus - led by Odena. The symposium chair outlined the nature of the partnership and introduced the four projects on additional support needs, barriers to parental involvement, looked-after children, and an early intervention programme. The discussant (Beck) offered a critique of the symposium as a whole, using as a background the implementation of ‘Teaching Scotland’s Future’ (Donaldson, 2011)

Agent based cooperative theory formation in pure mathematics

The HR program, Colton et al. (1999), performs theory formation in domains of pure mathematics. Given only minimal information about a domain, it invents concepts, make conjectures, proves theorems and finds counterexamples to false conjectures. We present here a multi-agent version of HR which may provide a model for how individual mathematicians perform separate investigations but communicate their results to the mathematical community, learning from others as they do. We detail the exhaustive categorisation problem to which we have applied a multi-agent approach.