5 papers
Comparing cars with apples? Identifying the appropriate benchmark countries for relative ecological pollution rankings and international learning
Dominik Hartmann, Diogo Ferraz, Mayra Bezerra +2
Research in Data Envelopment Analysis has created rankings of the ecological efficiency of countries' economies. At the same time, research in economic complexity has provided new…
Characterization of the Firm-Firm Public Procurement Co-Bidding Network from the State of Ceará (Brazil) Municipalities
Marcos Lyra, António Curado, Bruno Damásio +2
Fraud in public funding can have deleterious consequences for the economic, social, and political well-being of societies. Fraudulent activity associated with public procurement co…
The Higher Education Space, Connecting Degree Programs from Individuals' Choices
Cristian Candia, Sara Encarnação, Flávio L. Pinheiro
Is it possible to derive organizing principles of higher education systems from the applicants' choices? Here we introduce the Higher Education Space (HES) as a way to describe the…
Computational Aspects of Optimal Strategic Network Diffusion
Marcin Waniek, Khaled Elbassioni, Flavio L. Pinheiro +2
Diffusion on complex networks is often modeled as a stochastic process. Yet, recent work on strategic diffusion emphasizes the decision power of agents and treats diffusion as a st…
Local Wealth Redistribution Promotes Cooperation in Multiagent Systems
Flávio L. Pinheiro, Fernando P. Santos
Designing mechanisms that leverage cooperation between agents has been a long-lasting goal in Multiagent Systems. The task is especially challenging when agents are selfish, lack c…