Gluing stability conditions (2009)
Collins, John, Polishchuk, Alexander
We define and study a gluing procedure for Bridgeland stability conditions in the situation when a triangulated category has a semiorthogonal decomposition. As an application we construct stability...
treatment of unexplained subfertility (2009)
the treatment of infertility. Obstet. Gynecol., 82, 780±786.
ECRA Special Issue on Supply Chain Trading – Call for Contributions (2009)
Norman Sadeh, John Collins, Sverker Janson
Supply chain management is central to the operation of today’s enterprises. Global competition and ever shorter product life cycles are forcing companies to explore more agile supply chain...
Interrogating the Politics of Post-9/11 Academic Freedom (2009)
College Literature - Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2009
De Brucker, Michaël, Haentjens, Patrick, Evenepoel, Jan, Devroey, Paul, Collins, John, Tournaye, Herman
BACKGROUND Although the age-effect on in vitro fertilization outcomes has been well documented, data on donor insemination are scarce hampering accurate patient counseling. This cohort study...
Strategic Sales Management Guided By Economic Regimes (2008)
Wolfgang Ketter, John Collins, Maria Gini, Alok Gupta, Paul Schrater
Unintegrated parton density functions (2008)
John Collins, Markus Diehl, Hannes Jung, Leif Lönnblad, Michael Lublinsky, Thomas Teubner
An overview on activities to determine unintegrated parton density functions is given and the concept and need for unintegrated PDFs is discussed. It is also argued that it is important to...
Strategic Sales Management Guided By Economic Regimes (2008)
Wolfgang Ketter, John Collins, Maria Gini, Alok Gupta, Paul Schrater
Abstract. We present methods to characterize market conditions from historical data, and we describe how this knowledge can be used to make strategic and tactical sales decisions. The methods are...
Strategic Sales Management in an Autonomous Trading Agent for TAC SCM (2008)
Wolfgang Ketter, Eric Sodomka, Amrudin Agovic, John Collins, Maria Gini
To operate successfully in a competitive trading environment such as the Trading Agent Competition for Supply Chain Management (Collins et al. 2004) (TAC SCM), an agent has to allocate resources and...
Pricing and Resource Allocation for Intelligent Trading Agents using Economic Regimes (2008)
Wolfgang Ketter, John Collins, Maria Gini, Alok Gupta, Paul Schrater
We present a semi-parametric model that describes and predicts pricing behaviors in a market environment using a Gaussian mixture model and a Markov process. We show how the model can be used to...
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Contract no: 20851A3/10/090 Newcomb’s Problem (2008)
Newcomb’s problem is a decision puzzle whose difficulty and interest stem from the fact that the possible outcomes are probabilistically dependent on, yet causally independent of, the agent’s...
the Trading Agent Competition for Supply Chain Management (2008)
Architectures for agents in TAC SCM An autonomous trading agent is a complex piece of software that must operate in a competitive economic environment. We report results of an informal survey of...
A Predictive Empirical Model for Pricing and ResourceAllocation Decisions (2008)
John Collins, Maria Gini, Paul Schrater
ABSTRACT We present a semi-parametric model that describes pricing behaviors in a market environment, and we show how that model can be used to guide resource allocation and pricing decisions in an...
The Impact of Distance Education on the Future Demand for College Faculty (2008)
The purpose of this paper is to build a conceptual framework to help scholars think systematically about the impact of technology-based distance education on the future demand for faculty. The...
Rapidity divergences and valid definitions of parton densities (2008)
Rapidity divergences occur when parton densities in a gauge theory are defined in the most natural way, as expectation values of partonic number operators in light-front quantization. I review these...
The paper considers our ordinary mentalistic discourse in relation to what we should expect from any genuine science of the mind. A meta-scientific eliminativism is commended and distinguished from...
Much of the best contemporary work in the philosophy of language and content makes appeal to the theories developed in generative syntax. In particular, there is a presumption that—at some level...
D.: Frobenius polytopes (2008)
Abstract. A real representation of a finite group naturally determines a polytope, generalizing the well-known Birkhoff polytope. This paper determines the structure of the polytope corresponding to...
Dimensional Inference Using Symbol Lives (2008)
Scientific equations embedded in computer programs must obey the rules for dimensional consistency. Many efforts have been made to enforce these rules within computer programs. Some methods require...
Unintegrated parton density functions (2008)
John Collins, Markus Diehl, Hannes Jung, Leif Lönnblad, Michael Lublinsky, Thomas Teubner
An overview on activities to determine unintegrated parton density functions is given and the concept and need for unintegrated PDFs is discussed. It is also argued that it is important to...
Stem Cells and Microstructures in 3D Gel (2008)
Honorable mention 2008 in The Image of Research, a competition for students in graduate or professional degree programs at UIC, sponsored by UIC's Graduate College and the University Library. Images...
Surgical education and training in Australia and New Zealand (2008)
Collins, John, Civil, Ian D., Sugrue, Michael, Balogh, Zsolt, Chehade, Mellick Joseph
John P. Collins, Ian D. Civil, Michael Sugrue, Zsolt Balogh, Mellick J. Chehade
Surgical education and training in Australia and New Zealand (2008)
Collins, John, Civil, Ian D., Sugrue, Michael, Balogh, Zsolt, Chehade, Mellick Joseph
John P. Collins, Ian D. Civil, Michael Sugrue, Zsolt Balogh, Mellick J. Chehade
Subtraction method for NLO corrections in Monte-Carlo event generators for leptoproduction
Mixed-Initiative Decision Support in Agent-Based (2007)
Automated Contracting John, John Collins, Corey Bilot, Maria Gini, Bamshad Mobasher
Using principles from Expected Utility Theory,we analyze the criteria that a customer agent in agent-based automated contracting would use in making decisions during the bidding cycle. We use the...
for the 2003 Supply Chain Management Trading (2007)
Wolfgang Ketter, Elena Kryzhnyaya, Steven Damer, Colin Mcmillen, Amrudin Agovic, John Collins, ...
We describe two sales strategies used by our agent, MinneTAC,
Component-based design for a trading agent (2007)
John Collins, Amrudin Agovic, Steven Damer, Maria Gini
MinneTAC is an agent designed to compete in the Supply-Chain Trading Agent Competition [1]. It is also designed to support the needs of a group of researchers, each of whom is interested in different...
Plan Execution by Contracting in a Multi-Agent Environment (2007)
John Collins Corey, John Collins, Corey Bilot, Maxsim Tsvetovat, Maria Gini, Bamshad Mobasher
We present a computational model of planning, scheduling, and execution that is capable of supporting the interactions of a self-interested agent with other agents in a contracting environment over...
Much of the best contemporary work in the philosophy of language and content makes appeal to the theories developed in generative syntax. In particular, there is a presumption that—at some level...
Getting pregnant after tubal sterilization: surgical reversal or IVF? (2007)
Boeckxstaens, An, Devroey, Paul, Collins, John, Tournaye, Herman
BACKGROUND When women regret having had a tubal sterilization, is the pregnancy rate higher with surgical reversal or IVF? METHODS This retrospective cohort study analyses the delivery rates of 163...
We show that hard-scattering factorization is violated in the production of high-p_T hadrons in hadron-hadron collisions, in the case that the hadrons are back-to-back, so that k_T factorization is...
Efficient statistical methods for evaluating trading agent performance (2007)
Eric Sodomka, Eric Sodomka, John Collins, John Collins, Maria Gini, Maria Gini
Market simulations, like their real-world counterparts, are typically domains of high complexity, high variability, and incomplete information. The performance of autonomous agents in these markets...
Detecting and forecasting economic regimes in automated exchanges (2007)
Wolfgang Ketter, John Collins, Maria Gini, Alok Gupta, Paul Schrater
We present basic building blocks of an agent that can use observable market conditions to characterize the microeconomic conditions of the market and predict future market trends. The agent can use...
Detecting and forecasting economic regimes in automated exchanges (2007)
Wolfgang Ketter, John Collins, Maria Gini, Alok Gupta, Paul Schrater
Abstract We show how an autonomous agent can use observable market conditions to characterizethe microeconomic situation of the market and predict future market trends. The agent can
Detecting and forecasting economic regimes in automated exchanges (2007)
Wolfgang Ketter, John Collins, Maria Gini, Alok Gupta, Paul Schrater
We show how an autonomous agent can use observable market conditions to characterize the microeconomic situation of the market and predict future market trends. The agent can use this information to...
Efficient statistical methods for evaluating trading agent performance (2007)
Eric Sodomka, John Collins, Maria Gini
Market simulations, like their real-world counterparts, are typically domains of high complexity, high variability, and incomplete information. The performance of autonomous agents in these markets...
A predictive empirical model for pricing and resource allocation decisions (2007)
Wolfgang Ketter, John Collins, Maria Gini, Alok Gupta, Paul Schrater
We present a semi-parametric model that describes pricing behaviors in a market environment, and we show how that model can be used to guide resource allocation and pricing decisions in an autonomous...
The paper considers our ordinary mentalistic discourse in relation to what we should expect from any genuine science of the mind. A meta-scientific eliminativism is commended and distinguished from...
Small x Phenomenology - summary of the 3rd Lund Small x Workshop in 2004 (2006)
Collaboration, The Small X, Bartels, Jochen, Barnafoldi, Gergely G., Chachamis, Grigorios, Collins, John, ...
A third workshop on small-x physics, within the Small-x Collaboration, was held in Hamburg in May 2004 with the aim of overviewing recent theoretical progress in this area and summarizing the...
Small x Phenomenology - summary of the 3rd Lund Small x Workshop in 2004 (2006)
Andersen Serguei Baranov, Jeppe R., Bartels, Jochen, Barnafoldi, Gergely G., Chachamis, Grigorios, Collins, John, ...
A third workshop on small-x physics, within the Small-x Collaboration, was held in Hamburg in May 2004 with the aim of overviewing recent theoretical progress in this area and summarizing the...
P.: Identifying and forecasting economic regimes in tac scm (2006)
Wolfgang Ketter, John Collins, Maria Gini, Alok Gupta, Paul Schrater
We present methods for an autonomous agent to identify dominant market conditions, such as over-supply or scarcity, and to predict market changes. The characteristics of economic regimes are learned...
P.: Identifying and forecasting economic regimes in tac scm (2006)
Wolfgang Ketter, John Collins, Maria Gini, Alok Gupta, Paul Schrater
Abstract. We present methods for an autonomous agent to identify dominant market conditions, such as over-supply or scarcity, and to forecast market changes. We show that market conditions can be...
P.: Identifying and forecasting economic regimes in tac scm (2006)
Wolfgang Ketter, John Collins, Maria Gini, Alok Gupta, Paul Schrater
We present methods for an autonomous agent to identify dominant market conditions, such as over-supply or scarcity, and to predict market changes. The characteristics of economic regimes are learned...
A market-pressure-based performance evaluator for tac-scm (2006)
Brett Borghetti, Eric Sodomka, Maria Gini, John Collins
Abstract. This paper proposes a novel method to characterize the performance of autonomous agents in the Trading Agent Competition for Supply Chain Management (TAC-SCM). We create benchmarking tools...
Collins, John, Pauly, Mark, Lamping, Mark, Quesnel, Bob, Georgacopoulos, Artie
Capstone Design Course MIE 702, Technical Design Report, Final report
A Computational Approach to Predicting Economic Regimes in Automated Exchanges (2005)
Wolfgang Ketter, John Collins, Maria Gini, Alok Gupta, Paul Schrater
We present a computational approach to identify dominant market conditions, such as over-supply or scarcity, and to predict market changes in automated exchange environments. Intelligent agents can...
Real Estate and Theater Space in New York: A Forum (2005)
Lecat, Jean-Guy, Gantner, Vallejo, Melillo, Joseph V., Collins, John, Feldman, Susan, Durst, Anita, ...
Participation in the RACS sentinel node biopsy versus axillary clearance trial (2005)
Wetzig, Neil R., Gill, P. Grantley, Ung, Owen, Collins, John, Kollias, James, Gillett, David, ...
Background: The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) SNAC trial is a randomized controlled trial of sentinel node biopsy (SNB) versus axillary clearance (AC). It opened in May 2001 and is...
Lorentz invariance and quantum gravity: an additional fine-tuning problem? (2004)
Collins, John, Perez, Alejandro, Sudarsky, Daniel, Urrutia, Luis, Vucetich, Héctor
Trying to combine standard quantum field theories with gravity leads to a breakdown of the usual structure of space-time at around the Planck length, 1.6*10^{-35} m, with possible violations of...
White, Victoria, Pruden, M., Giles, Graham G., Collins, John, Jamrozik, Konrad, Inglis, G., ...
Copyright © 2004 American Cancer Society Published in Cancer, 2004; 101 (3):476-485 at www.interscience.wiley.com
White, Victoria, Pruden, M., Giles, Graham G., Collins, John, Jamrozik, Konrad, Inglis, G., ...
Copyright © 2004 American Cancer Society Published in Cancer, 2004; 101 (3):476-485 at www.interscience.wiley.com
MinneTAC sales strategies for supply chain TAC (2004)
Wolfgang Ketter, Elena Kryzhnyaya, Steven Damer, Colin Mcmillen, Amrudin Agovic, John Collins, ...
We describe two sales strategies used by our agent, MinneTAC, for the 2003 Supply Chain Management Trading Agent Competition (TAC SCM). Both strategies estimate, as the game progresses, the...
Design and analysis of the MinneTAC-03 Supply-Chain Trading Agent (2004)
Wolfgang Ketter, Elena Kryzhnyaya, Steven Damer, Colin Mcmillen, Amrudin Agovic, John Collins, ...
MinneTAC is an agent designed to compete in the Supply-Chain Trading Agent Competition [1]. It is also designed to support the needs of a group of researchers, each of whom is interested in different...
Harnessing the Search for Rational Bid Schedules (2004)
With Stochastic Search, Er Babanov, John Collins, Maria Gini
In previous work we proposed an approach for computing an agent's preferences over different schedules of tasks, and for soliciting desirable bid combinations to cover the tasks. The proposed...
Analysis and Design of Supply-Driven Strategies in TAC SCM (2004)
Wolfgang Ketter, Elena Kryzhnyaya, Steven Damer, Colin Mcmillen, Amrudin Agovic, John Collins, ...
We describe two sales strategies used by the MinneTAC agent for the 2003 Supply Chain Management Trading Agent Competition. Both strategies estimate, as the game progresses, the probability of...
MinneTAC sales strategies for supply chain TAC (2004)
Wolfgang Ketter, Elena Kryzhnyaya, Steven Damer, Colin Mcmillen, Amrudin Agovic, John Collins, ...
We describe two sales strategies used by our agent, MinneTAC, for the 2003 Supply Chain Management Trading Agent Competition (TAC SCM). Both strategies estimate, as the game progresses, the...
Harnessing the search for rational bid schedules with stochastic search (2004)
Er Babanov, John Collins, Maria Gini
In previous work we proposed an approach for computing an agent’s preferences over different schedules of tasks, and for soliciting desirable bid combinations to cover the tasks. The proposed...
Autier, Philippe, Collins, John, Velkeniers, Brigitte
BACKGROUND: In postmenopausal women, a history of any fracture is an important risk factor for a future hip fracture. Whether similar findings apply to aging men remains to be established. We...
Asking the right question: Risk and expectation in multi-agent contracting (2003)
Er Babanov, John Collins, Maria Gini
Number of figures: 14 Number of tables: 0
Scheduling Tasks with Precedence Constraints to Solicit Desirable Bid Combinations (2003)
Alexander Babanov, John Collins, Maria Gini
In our previous research we suggested an approach to maximizing agents preferences over schedules of multiple tasks with temporal and precedence constraints. The proposed approach is based on...
Asking the right question: Risk and expectation in multi-agent contracting (2003)
Er Babanov, John Collins, Maria Gini
In this paper we are interested in the decision problem faced by an agent when requesting bids for collections of tasks with complex time constraints and interdependencies. In particular, we study...
Recommendations for the use of icodextrin in peritoneal dialysis patients (2003)
Johnson, David W., Agar, John, Collins, John, Disney, Alex, Harris, David C. H., Ibels, Lloyd, ...
Horwich's Schemata Meet Syntactic Structures (2003)
Paul Horwich (1998), following a number of others, proposes a schematic compositional format for the specification of the meanings of complex expressions. The format is schematic in the sense that it...
When conventional treatment of unexplained infertility has not been successful, the next choice lies between either gonadotrophin treatment with intrauterine insemination (FSH/IUI) and IVF. Cohort...
Up Front: American Theaters Reflect on the Events of September 11 (2002)
Grinwis, Emmy., Hanlon, John J., Moore, Alice Rebecca., Romanska, Magda., Soloski, Alexis., ...
Theater - Volume 32, Number 1, Winter 2002
John Collins, Wolfgang Ketter, Maria Gini, Bamshad Mobasher
We are interested in supporting multi-agent contracting, in which customer agents solicit the resources and capabilities of other, self-interested agents in order to accomplish their goals. Goals may...
Multi-agent negotiation using combinatorial auctions with precedence constraints (2002)
John Collins, Maria Gini, Bamshad Mobasher
We present a system for multi-agent contract negotiation, implemented as an auctionbased market architecture called MAGNET. A principal feature of MAGNET is support for negotiation of contracts based...
Stefan Botman, Mark Hoogendoorn, Vasile Bud, Ashutosh Jaiswal, Steve Hawkins, Yelena Kryzhnyaya, ...
Abstract. We are interested in supporting multi-agent contracting in which customer agents solicit the resources and capabilities of other selfinterested supplier agents in order to accomplish their...
Risk and expectations in a-priori time allocation in multi-agent contracting (2002)
Alexander Babanov, John Collins, Maria Gini
In related research we have proposed a market architecture for multi-agent contracting and we have implemented prototypes of both the market architecture and the agents in a system called MAGNET. A...
Bidtree ordering in IDA* combinatorial auction winner-determination with side constraints (2002)
John Collins, Guleser Demir, Maria Gini
winner-determination with side constraints
Multi-agent negotiation using combinatorial auctions with precedence constraints (2002)
John Collins, Maria Gini, Bamshad Mobasher
We present a system for multi-agent contract negotiation, implemented as an auctionbased market architecture called MAGNET. A principal feature of MAGNET is support for negotiation of contracts based...
Colonoscopy has a high diagnostic yield and low complication rate in older patients (2002)
Mitchell, Robert Michael, McCallion, Kevin, Gardiner, Keith, Collins, John, Watson, Peter
El triunfo de las bestias = Triumph of the Beasts (2001)
Haines, Tim (prod. Ejecutivo), Bartlett, Kate (prod.), Bartlett, Kate (guión), Hill, Richard (fotografía), Collins, John (fotografía), Hupka, George (fotografía), ...
An integer programming formulation of the bid evaluation problem for coordinated tasks (2001)
Abstract. We extend the IP models proposed by Nisan and Andersson for winner determination in combinatorial auctions, to the problem of evaluating bids for coordinated task sets. This requires...
Collins, John, Shimoyama, Naohito, Bruera, Eduardo, Takeda, Fumikazu, Kakizoe, Tadao, Sugimura, Takashi
John Collins, Rashmi Sundareswara, Maria Gini, Barnshad Mobasher
Abstract. Bid evaluation in a multi-agent automated contracting environment presents a challenging search problem. We introduce a multicriterion, anytime bid evaluation strategy that incorporates...
Temporal Strategies in a Multi-Agent Contracting Protocol (1997)
John Collins, Scott Jamison, Maria Gini, Bamshad Mobasher
Much recent work in automated contracting in multi-agent environments has focused on the design and analysis of protocols that encourage customers and suppliers to negotiate fairly, and that attempt...
A Market Architecture for Multi-Agent Contracting (1997)
John Collins, Scott Jamison, Bamshad Mobasher, Maria Gini
We present a generalized market architecture that provides support for a variety of types of transactions, from simple buying and selling of goods and services to complex multi-agent contract...
This paper has as its topic two recent philosophical disputes. One of these disputes is internal to the project known as decision theory, and while by now familiar to many, may well seem to be of...
The Problem Of Scales: Renormalization and All That (1995)
I explain the methods that are used in field theory for problems involving typical momenta on two or more widely disparate scales. The principal topics are: (a) renormalization, which treats the...
The azimuthal distribution of pairs of particles in a jet is sensitive to the transverse polarization of the quark initiating the jet, but with a sensitivity that involves a nonperturbative analyzing...
The Ghanaian concert party : African popular entertainment at the cross roads / (1994)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 1994.
Xle, Ya-Gang, Han, Fei-Yu, Peyrard, Myrlam, Ruttledge, Martin H., Fransson, Ingegerd, DeJong, Pleter, ...
In order to permit detailed characterization of meningioma cases showing deletions within chromosomal band 22q12 and further systematically clone genes located within this region, we established a...
The Big Bad Bug: What are the Humean's Chances? (1993)
BIGELOW, JOHN, COLLINS, JOHN, PARGETTER, ROBERT
Humean supervenience is the doctrine that there are no necessary connections in the world. David Lewis identifies one big bad bug to the programme of providing Humean analyses for apparently...
Collins, John, Szardenings, Michael, Maywald, Friedhelm, Blöcker, Helmut, Frank, Ronald, Hecht, Hans-Jürgen, ...
When should we translate ’poieõ’ ’to make’ as ’to reckon’? (1986)
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_work.asp?id=34672
Gross, Gerhard, Mayr, Ulrich, Bruns, Wolfgang, Grosveld, Frank, Dahl, Hans-Henrik M., Collins, John
The isolation of a human genomic cosmid hybrid containing the interferon β gene has recently been reported (Gross et al., 1981). This hybrid was mapped using single and double digests and...
On a goodness-of-fit test for the exponential distribution with mean unknown (1972)
SCHAFER, R. E., FINKELSTEIN, J. M., COLLINS, JOHN
Srinivasan (1970) proposed a two-sided Kolmogorov-Smirnov type test for testing the goodness of fit of exponential and normal distributions with parameters unspecified. For the exponential...
391 p.
Robustness Comparisons of Some Classes of Location Parameter Estimators
Robust estimation, M-, L- and R-estimators, asymptotic biases, asymptotic variances, asymmetric contamination,