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Paris Dauphine University
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About: Paris Dauphine University is a education organization based out in Paris, France. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Context (language use) & Population. The organization has 1766 authors who have published 6909 publications receiving 162747 citations. The organization is also known as: Paris Dauphine & Dauphine.
Topics: Context (language use), Population, Approximation algorithm, Bounded function, Nonlinear system
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define a theoretical framework to analyze the notion of importance of criteria under very general conditions and show that the importance of the criteria is taken into account in very different ways in various aggregation procedures.
Abstract: Multiple-criteria decision aid almost always requires the use of weights, importance coefficients or even a hierarchy of criteria, veto thresholds, etc. These are importance parameters that are used to differentiate the role devoted to each criterion in the construction of comprehensive preferences. Many researchers have studied the problem of how to assign values to such parameters, but few of them have tried to analyse in detail what underlies the notion of importance of criteria and to give a clear formal definition of it. In this paper our purpose is to define a theoretical framework so as to analyse the notion of the importance of criteria under very general conditions. Within this framework it clearly appears that the importance of criteria is taken into account in very different ways in various aggregation procedures. This framework also allows us to shed new light on fundamental questions such as: Under what conditions is it possible to state that one criterion is more important than another? Are importance parameters of the various aggregation procedures dependent on or independent of the encoding of criteria? What are the links between the two concepts of the importance of criteria and the compensatoriness of preferences? This theoretical framework seems to us sufficiently general to ground further research in order to define theoretically valid elicitation methods for importance parameters.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether the financial performances of socially responsible investment (SRI) mutual funds are related to the features of the screening process and found evidence that a greater screening intensity slightly reduces financial performance.
Abstract: In this study, we examine whether the financial performances of socially responsible investment (SRI) mutual funds are related to the features of the screening process. Based on a sample of French SRI funds, we find evidence that a greater screening intensity slightly reduces financial performance (but the relationship runs in the opposite direction when screening gets tougher). Further, we show that only sectoral screens – such as avoiding ‘sin’ stocks – decrease financial performance, while transversal screens – commitment to UN Global Compact Principles, ILO/Rights at Work, etc. – have no impact. Lastly, when the quality of the SRI selection process is proxied by the rating provided by Novethic, its impact is not significant, while a higher strategy distinctiveness amongst SRI funds, which also gives information on the quality of the selection process, is associated with better financial performance.
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01 Oct 2012TL;DR: This work combines and refining state-of-the-art techniques (random forests and template deformation) to demonstrate the possibility of building an algorithm that meets practical use in clinical routine and is fast, automatic and robust to contrast-agent enhancement and fields of view.
Abstract: Kidney segmentation in 3D CT images allows extracting useful information for nephrologists. For practical use in clinical routine, such an algorithm should be fast, automatic and robust to contrast-agent enhancement and fields of view. By combining and refining state-of-the-art techniques (random forests and template deformation), we demonstrate the possibility of building an algorithm that meets these requirements. Kidneys are localized with random forests following a coarse-to-fine strategy. Their initial positions detected with global contextual information are refined with a cascade of local regression forests. A classification forest is then used to obtain a probabilistic segmentation of both kidneys. The final segmentation is performed with an implicit template deformation algorithm driven by these kidney probability maps. Our method has been validated on a highly heterogeneous database of 233 CT scans from 89 patients. 80 % of the kidneys were accurately detected and segmented (Dice coefficient > 0.90) in a few seconds per volume.
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TL;DR: This paper studies an abstract negotiation framework where agents can agree on multilateral deals to exchange bundles of indivisible resources and shows how certain classes of deals are both sufficient and necessary to guarantee that a socially optimal allocation of resources will be reached eventually.
Abstract: A multiagent system may be thought of as an artificial society of autonomous software agents and we can apply concepts borrowed from welfare economics and social choice theory to assess the social welfare of such an agent society. In this paper, we study an abstract negotiation framework where agents can agree on multilateral deals to exchange bundles of indivisible resources. We then analyse how these deals affect social welfare for different instances of the basic framework and different interpretations of the concept of social welfare itself. In particular, we show how certain classes of deals are both sufficient and necessary to guarantee that a socially optimal allocation of resources will be reached eventually.
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TL;DR: By increasing in a regular way the number of observed choices from the authors' class of budget sets one can fully identify the underlying preference relation and obtain testable implications of rational behavior for a wide class of economic environments and a constructive method to derive individual preferences from observed choices.
Abstract: Afriat (1967) showed the equivalence of the strong axiom of revealed preference and the existence of a solution to a set of linear inequalities. From this solution he constructed a utility function rationalizing the choices of a competitive consumer. We extend Afriat's theorem to a class of nonlinear budget sets. We obtain testable implications of rational behavior for a wide class of economic environments, and a constructive method to derive individual preferences from observed choices. In an application to market games, we identify a set of observable restrictions characterizing Nash equilibrium outcomes.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Pierre-Louis Lions | 98 | 283 | 57043 |
Laurent D. Cohen | 94 | 417 | 42709 |
Chris Bowler | 87 | 288 | 35399 |
Christian P. Robert | 75 | 535 | 36864 |
Albert Cohen | 71 | 368 | 19874 |
Gabriel Peyré | 65 | 303 | 16403 |
Kerrie Mengersen | 65 | 737 | 20058 |
Nader Masmoudi | 62 | 245 | 10507 |
Roland Glowinski | 61 | 393 | 20599 |
Jean-Michel Morel | 59 | 302 | 29134 |
Nizar Touzi | 57 | 224 | 11018 |
Jérôme Lang | 57 | 277 | 11332 |
William L. Megginson | 55 | 169 | 18087 |
Alain Bensoussan | 55 | 417 | 22704 |
Yves Meyer | 53 | 128 | 14604 |