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The efficacy-competitiveness frontier in the Swiss system
László Csató, Balázs R. Sziklai
An ideal tournament is both efficacious and attractive: it selects the best player as the winner, but only at the end of the tournament in order to maintain suspense as long as pos…
Impact of AI Tools on Learning Outcomes: Decreasing Knowledge and Over-Reliance
Márton Benedek, Balázs R. Sziklai
Students at all levels of education are increasingly relying on generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools to complete assignments and achieve higher exam scores. However, it re…
Finding Early Adopters of Innovation in Social Network
Balázs R. Sziklai, Balázs Lengyel
Social networks play a fundamental role in the diffusion of innovation through peers' influence on adoption. Thus, network position including a wide range of network centrality mea…
Location and audience selection for maximizing social influence
Balázs R. Sziklai, Balázs Lengyel
Viral marketing campaigns target primarily those individuals who are central in social networks and hence have social influence. Marketing events, however, may attract diverse audi…
Testing Rankings with Cross-Validation
Balázs R. Sziklai, Máté Baranyi, Károly Héberger
This research investigates how to determine whether two rankings come from the same distribution. We evaluate three hybrid tests: Wilcoxon's, Dietterich's, and Alpaydin's statistic…
The efficacy of tournament designs
Balázs R. Sziklai, Péter Biró, László Csató
Tournaments are a widely used mechanism to rank alternatives in a noisy environment. This paper investigates a fundamental issue of economics in tournament design: what is the best…
Modelling transfer profits as externalities in a cooperative game-theoretic model of natural gas networks
Dávid Csercsik, Franz Hubert, Balázs R. Sziklai +1
Existing cooperative game theoretic studies of bargaining power in gas pipeline systems are based on the so called characteristic function form (CFF). This approach is potentially…
Resource-monotonicity and Population-monotonicity in Connected Cake-cutting
Erel Segal-Halevi, Balázs Sziklai
In the classic cake-cutting problem (Steinhaus, 1948), a heterogeneous resource has to be divided among n agents with different valuations in a proportional way --- giving each age…
Monotonicity and Competitive Equilibrium in Cake-cutting
Erel Segal-Halevi, Balázs Sziklai
We study the monotonicity properties of solutions in the classic problem of fair cake-cutting --- dividing a heterogeneous resource among agents with different preferences. Resourc…