Elite rugby union teams currently employ technology in order to monitor and evaluate
the physical demands of training and games on their players. Tackling has been shown to be the most common cause of injury in rugby union ...
Elite rugby union teams currently employ the latest technology to monitor and evaluate the physical demands of training and games on their players. Tackling has been shown to be the most common cause of injury in rugby ...
Rugby union only went professional in 1995, much later than other major
team sports. League structures and arrangements regarding revenue sharing and salary
caps differ between the three main European leagues. We consider ...
The paper analyses the impact of the relatively belated move to
professionalism in Rugby Union. We use data on match attendance for 3,667 fixtures
in European club Rugby over 15 seasons to estimate the effect of competitive ...
The economic literature on professional sports leagues suggests supporters’
utility depends on uncertainty of outcome (competitive balance) and the quality of
play. Unlike soccer, where the Champions League is dominated ...
This chapter explores the issue of overfitting in grammar-based Genetic Programming. Tools such as Genetic Programming are well suited to problems in finance where we seek to learn or induce a model from data. Models that ...
Do people care more about the environment as their income increases? In this paper we use micro data to tackle this question in two different ways. We first look at the correlation between income and attitudes towards the ...
Several papers show that symbolic regression is suitable for data analysis and prediction in financial markets. Grammatical Evolution (GE), a grammar-based form of Genetic Programming (GP), has been successfully applied ...
Although many real world problems are dynamic in nature, the study of Genetic Programming in dynamic environments is still immature. This paper investigates the application of some recently proposed semantic-based crossover ...
This paper firstly gives a brief overview of information embedding in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequences and its applications. DNA data embedding can be considered as a particular case of communications with or without ...