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Hollywood's dominance of the movie industry : how did it arise and how has it been maintained?

Silver, Jonathan D. - 2007

Hollywood’s dominance of the movie industry has been the subject of numerous studies. An interdisciplinary literature review in this thesis identified twenty different single or multiple factor explanations that try to account for Major studio dominance at different time periods but cannot...

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Consultants’ advice to adopt management control systems: the joint effect of persuasion triggers and manager competence

Leiby, Justin - 2011

common persuasion tactics in the consulting setting, specifically social proof and scarcity (Cialdini 1993; 2001), which are … the persuasion tactics of social proof or scarcity, and that the consultant applies these tactics based on the manager … persuasion tactics based on the competence of the manager. I also provide evidence that consultants believe that their advice …

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On the strategic use of attention grabbers

Kfir Eliaz; Ran Spiegler - Department of Economics, Brown University; Department … - 2011

[This item is a preserved copy. To view the original, visit http://econtheory.org/] When a firm decides which products to offer or put on display, it takes into account the products' ability to attract attention to the brand name as a whole. Thus, the value of a product to the firm emanates from...

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Discover Interesting Patterns for Investment Decision Making with GLOWER- A Genetic Learner Overlaid With Entropy Reduction

Dhar, Vasant; Chou, Dashin; Provost, Foster - 2008

Prediction in financial domains is notoriously difficult for a number ofreasons. First, theories tend to be weak or non-existent, which makesproblem formulation open ended by forcing us to consider a large numberof independent variables and thereby increasing the dimensionality ofthe search...

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Economical Active Feature-value Acquisition through Expected Utility Estimation

Melville, Prem; Saar-Tsechansky, Maytal; Mooney, Raymond; … - 2005

In many classification tasks training data have missing feature valuesthat can be acquired at a cost. For building accurate predictive models,acquiring all missing values is often prohibitively expensive orunnecessary, while acquiring a random subset of feature values may notbe most effective....

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Modeling Purposeful Adaptive Behavior with the Principle of Maximum Causal Entropy

Ziebart, Brian D. - 2010

Predicting human behavior from a small amount of training examples is a challenging machine learning problem. In this thesis, we introduce the principle of maximum causal entropy, a general technique for applying information theory to decision-theoretic, game-theoretic, and control settings...

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Novel Computationally Intelligent Machine Learning Algorithms for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Gheyas, Iffat A. - 2009

This thesis addresses three major issues in data mining regarding feature subset selection in large dimensionality domains, plausible reconstruction of incomplete data in cross-sectional applications, and forecasting univariate time series. For the automated selection of an optimal subset of...

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Medical decision support systems based on machine learning

Chi, Chih-Lin - 2009

This dissertation discusses three problems from different areas of medical research and their machine learning solutions. Each solution is a distinct type of decision support system. They show three common properties: personalized healthcare decision support, reduction of the use of medical...

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Empirical Methods for Predicting Student Retention- A Summary from the Literature

Bogard, Matt - 2011

The vast majority of the literature related to the empirical estimation of retention models includes a discussion of the theoretical retention framework established by Bean, Braxton, Tinto, Pascarella, Terenzini and others (see Bean, 1980; Bean, 2000; Braxton, 2000; Braxton et al, 2004; Chapman and Pascarella,...

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Using boosting for automated planning and trading systems

Creaer, German - 2007

The problem: Much of finance theory is based on the efficient market hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, the prices of financial assets, such as stocks, incorporate all information that may affect their future performance. However, the translation of publicly available information into...

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