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...

The spread of capital markets during the half century to-date is a notable global phenomenon in economic development. Derivative markets spread globally in the last quarter century spreading form just two to some 50 in 2007. But the role of derivative markets to economic development has yet been...

A large part of the recent literature on program evaluation has focused on estimation of theaverage effect of the treatment under assumptions of unconfoundedness or ignorability following the seminal work by Rubin (1974) and Rosenbaum and Rubin (1983). In many cases however, researchers are...

The performance of Internet-based services depends on manyserver-side, client-side, and network related factors. Often, theinteraction among the factors or their effect on service performanceis not known or well-understood. The complexity of these servicesmakes it difficult to develop analytical...