Browsing by Subject "Information"
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Autonomous Sensor Path Planning and Control for Active Information Gathering
(2014)Sensor path planning and control refer to the problems of determining the trajectory and feedback control law that best support sensing objectives, such as monitoring, detection, classification, and tracking. Many autonomous ... -
How will they fare on Judgement Day? Reputational Herding in Professional Communities
(2011-04-19)This paper presents a theoretical model of decision-making by professionals within the same field. The decision-makers consider reputation effects that result both from their relative actions and from the absolute outcomes. ... -
Information Interventions to Reduce Maternal Mortality in Indonesia
(2016)Indonesia consistently records higher levels of maternal mortality than other countries in Southeast Asia with its same level of socioeconomic development. I use a quasi-experimental, difference-in-differences approach ... -
Making Sense of Normative Functions and Information in Neurobiological Systems
(2012)In this thesis, I take up two important issues for understanding neurobiological systems: normative functions and information. After introducing the topic and my methodology in chapters 1 and 2, chapter 3 contains an extended ... -
Rethinking Civil War
(2019)Why do some civil conflicts simmer at low-intensity, while others escalate to war? When and why do some civil conflicts experience cycles of escalation and de-escalation? This dissertation challenges traditional approaches ...
