Learning Economic Parameters from Revealed Preferences

A recent line of work, starting with Beigman and Vohra (2006) and Zadimoghaddam and Roth (2012), has addressed the problem of {\em learning} a utility function from revealed preference data. The goal here is to make use of past data describing the purchases of a utility maximizing agent when faced with certain prices and budget constraints in order to produce a hypothesis function that can accurately forecast the {\em future} behavior of the agent. In this work we advance this line of work by providing sample complexity guarantees and efficient algorithms for a number of important classes. By drawing a connection to recent advances in multi-class learning, we provide a computationally efficient algorithm with tight sample complexity guarantees ($\Theta(d/\epsilon)$ for the case of $d$ goods) for learning linear utility functions under a linear price model. This solves an open question in Zadimoghaddam and Roth (2012). Our technique yields numerous generalizations including the ability to learn other well-studied classes of utility functions, to deal with a misspecified model, and with non-linear prices

Analisis Perbandingan Stabilitas Dinamis Barge Menggunakan Flounder Plate Dengan Single Lead Pendant Pada Operasi Towing

Pada tugas akhir ini telah dilakukan analisis perbandingan stabilitas pada operasi towing CPO Barge dengan menggunakan single lead pendant dan flounder plate untuk variasi kondisi muatan penuh, setengah dan kosong. Analisis yang pertama dilakukan adalah menentukan karakteristik gerakan CPO Barge (RAO) di atas gelombang reguler dalam domain frekuensi. Hasil yang didapat adalah karakteristik gerakan pada operasi towing, yakni untuk gerakan heave 0,966 m/m, 0,974 m/m dan 0,954 m/m dengan arah datang gelombang 00.. Untuk respon roll 8,836 deg/m, 8,203 deg/m dan 6,654 deg/m dengan arah datang gelombang 900. Sedangkan untuk respon pitch 2,414 deg/m , 2,682 deg/m dan 2,792 deg/m dengan arah datang gelombang 1800, masing – masing untuk setiap variasi muatan penuh, setengah dan kosong. Setelah itu dilakukan analisis terhadap stabilitas dinamis CPO Barge, stabilitas dinamis maksimum akibat proses towing dengan menggunakan single lead pendant dengan muatan penuh, setengah dan kosong adalah masing – masing 7311,1 ton.m, 3352,3 ton.m dan 2277,9 ton.m. Sedangkan nilai stabilitas dinamis maksimum dengan menggunakan flounder plate untuk muatan penuh, setengah dan kosong adalah 6774,5 ton.m, 2863,9 ton.m dan 1789,5 ton.m

Analisa Greenwater Akibat Gerakan Offshore Security Vessel

Analisa Tugas Akhir ini, terdiri atas beberapa tahapan. Yang pertama yaitu perancangan struktur Offshore Security Vessel (OSV) dengan bantuan software MAXSURF guna mendapatkan Lines Plan. Offset data yang diperoleh digunakan dalam pemodelan menggunakan MOSES, kemudian dilakukan analisa gerak OSV dalam gelombang regular dan dinyatakan dalam grafik RAO. Analisa gerak relatif vertikal haluan dihitung dari RAO gerakan, dan kemudian melakukan evaluasi perilaku di gelombang acak dengan analisis spektra gelombang. Dari analisa spektra didapatkan parameter greenwater sehingga dapat dihitung peluang, intensitas dan tekanan greenwater. Dari hasil analisa diperoleh RAO gerak vertikal Offshore Security Vessel (OSV) pada gelombang reguler yang dipengaruhi oleh kecepatan, kondisi muatan dan arah gelombang. Peluang terjadinya greenwater terbesar terjadi pada sudut datang gelombang following sea (0o) dimana harga terbesar terjadi pada ω = 0.2 rad/sec dengan periode 29 detik mencapai 0.477. Intensitas greenwater terbesar terjadi pada saat sudut datang gelombang following sea (0o) adalah sebanyak 59.265 per jam dan 0.378 per detik. Tekanan greenwater terbesar terjadi pada saat sudut datang gelombang head sea (180o) sebesar 1678x10-6 MPa. Dengan nilai tersebut, deck mampu menahan beban akibat tekanan greenwater

Analisis Damage Stability Accomodation Barge Pada Saat Operasi Crawler Crane

Setiap tipe kapal yang beroperasi di laut memiliki resiko kecelakaan yang bisa mengakibatkan kebocoran pada bagian tertentu di kapal. Perhitungan stabilitas untuk kondisi tersebut diharuskan menggunakan damage stability karena perhitungan intact stability dan floodable length telah terbukti tidak lagi aman untuk menjamin keselamatan kapal jika terjadi kebocoran. Objek kapal yang akan dianalisis dalam penelitian ini berupa accommodation barge dengan crawler crane yang melakukan pengangkatan di atas dek. Referensi yang dipakai untuk menghitung damage stability adalah IMO A.1023 (26). Perhitungan damage stability menggunakan metode lost buoyancy dengan bantuan perangkat lunak Hydromax. Dan perhitungan karakteristik gerakan menggunakan metode added weight. Berdasarkan IMO A.1023 jumlah kompartemen yang dibocorkan dalam pehitungan damage stability hanya memperhitungkan satu kompartemen bocor dalam setiap kasus pembebanan. Respon gerak maksimal terjadi pada gerakan roll untuk arah datang gelombang 90° sebesar 8.031°. Di samping itu respon gerak maksimal juga terjadi pada gerakan pitch untuk arah datang gelombang 135° dan 180° berturut – turut sebesar 3.6° dan 4.003°. Hasil analisis stabilitas menunjukkan bahwa kondisi kompartemen 4S mengalami kebocoran memiliki stabilitas paling kecil. Pada kondisi kompartemen 4S bocor memiliki range of stability 58.3.6

Evaluasi Keberhasilan Inseminasi Buatan Pada Sapi Simental – Po (Simpo) Di Kecamatan Patean Dan Plantungan, Kabupaten Kendal, Jawa Tengah (Evaluation of Artificial Insemination Simmental – Po (Simpo) Cow in the Sub-district of Patean and Plantungan, Kend

The purpose of this research was to find out about the success of IB implementation for SIMPO cows in both of district which have different temperature and humidity based on, non return rate (NRR), conception rate(CR) and service per conception (S/C).The materials of this research was secondary data of IB implementation from 2009 until 2013 and the primary data was 60 SIMPO cows. The method that used in this study was observational and drscriptive analysis, and has passed the proportional test in order to determine the difference between the two regions, then linier regression analysis to estimate various parameters of 2014. To make the counting procedure easier and prevent humman error this research used statistical shoftware conStat. The result proved that presumption value 2014 there was a different results fo successively wereNRR28-35 83,33%; CR 30,80%; S/C 2,9 times for Patean and for Plantungan were NRR28-35 86,66%; CR 57,2%; S/C 1,5 times. The result of proportion test for CR and S/C showed different (p<0,05) but there was no differences for NRR result. The conclusion of this research that reproduction capability based on evaluation to NRR, CR and S/C of SIMPO cows in Plantungan district was better than SIMPO cows in Patean Distric

Diamond vs. square mesh codend in a multi-species trawl fishery of the western Mediterranean: effects on catch composition, yield, size selectivity and discards

Selectivity studies usually describe the effects on target species, whereas information on by-catch and discards is scarce. Nevertheless, large quantities of undersized individuals and invertebrates are discarded in the Mediterranean multi-species bottom trawl fishery. The present work analyses the data from two surveys carried out on the shallow and deep continental shelf (50–78 m, and 147–189 m, respectively) off the Balearic Islands (western Mediterranean). In these surveys, the traditionally used 40 mm diamond mesh codend and an experimental square mesh codend were used under commercial conditions. Catch composition, yields, size selectivity of both target and by-catch species, and discards were compared between the two mesh types. The mean selection length (L50) clearly increased for most species when using square mesh, escaping many more individuals under their minimum landing size. Yield of Spicara smaris was significantly lower by using the square mesh, changing the composition of the retained catch. Escapement ratio and economic loss were significantly higher with square mesh, although economic loss was almost negligible for both meshes on the deep continental shelf. The use of square mesh significantly reduced the discards of algae in the shallow waters and fish on the deep continental shelf. The results confirmed that square mesh codend reduces the fishing pressure on small specimens as well as the impact of trawling on the ecosystem. These benefits would not lead to a reduction of the yields neither of the main target species, the fishes Merluccius merluccius, Mullus surmuletus, Zeus faber, and the cephalopods Loligo vulgaris and Octopus vulgaris, nor of the rest of commercial categories, except for Spicara smarisPublicado

p-branes on the waves

We present a large family of simple, explicit ten-dimensional supergravity solutions describing extended extremal supersymmetric Ramond-Ramond p-branes embedded into time-dependent dilaton-gravity plane waves of an arbitrary (isotropic) profile, with the brane world-volume aligned parallel to the propagation direction of the wave. Generalizations to the non-extremal case are not analyzed explicitly, but can be pursued as indicated.Comment: 11 pages; v.2 minor notation changes, minor typos corrected (published version

The effect of collisional enhancement of Balmer lines on the determination of the primordial helium abundance

This paper describes a new determination of the primordial helium abundance (Y_P), based on the abundance analysis of five metal-poor extragalactic HII regions. For three regions of the sample (SBS 0335-052, I Zw 18, and H29) we present tailored photoionization models based on improved calculations with respect to previous models. In particular, we use the photoionization models to study quantitatively the effect of collisional excitation of Balmer lines on the determination of the helium abundance (Y) in the individual regions. This effect is twofold: first, the intensities of the Balmer lines are enhanced with respect to the pure recombination value, mimicking a higher hydrogen abundance; second, the observed reddening is larger than the true extinction, due to the differential effect of collisions on different Balmer lines. In addition to these effects, our analysis takes into account the following features of HII regions: (i) the temperature structure, (ii) the density structure, (iii) the presence of neutral helium, (iv) the collisional excitation of the HeI lines, (v) the underlying absorption of the HeI lines, and (vi) the optical thickness of the HeI lines. The object that shows the highest increase in Y after the inclusion of collisional effects in the analysis is SBS 0335-052, whose helium abundance has been revised by Delta Y = +0.0107. The revised Y values for the five objects in our sample yield an increase of +0.0035 in Y_P, giving Y_P = 0.2391 +/- 0.0020.Comment: 59 pages, 8 figures. AAS Latex. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journa