Nicolas Houy

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Formation and jobs

2012-currentCNRS Researcher, GATE, Ecully, France.
2010-currentBusiness founder, Everywhere.
2007-2010CNRS Researcher, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France.
2006-2007Teaching Assistant, University of Paris, Cergy-Pontoise, France.
2005-2006Post-Doc, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.
2002-2005Ph.D., University Paris I, France.
2002-2003Master of Economic Analysis and Policy, Ecole Normale Supérieure Jourdan, Paris, France.
2001-2002Master of Macroeconomics, University Paris I, France.
2000-2001Master of Physics, Ecole Normale Supérieure Ulm, Paris, France.
1998-2001Magistère of Physics, Ecole Normale Supérieure Ulm, Paris, France.

Scientific works and publications

All In English In French

In peer-reviewed journals

"Optimal epidemic control under uncertainty: tradeoffs between information collection and other actions" (with J. Flaig), Medical Decision Making, 43(3): 350-361 (2023). [Abs]

"Hospital-wide surveillance-based antimicrobial treatments: a Monte-Carlo look-ahead method" (with J. Flaig), Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 204: 106050 (2021). [Abs]

"Optimal dynamic empirical therapy in a health care facility: a Monte-Carlo look-ahead method" (with J. Flaig), Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 198: 105767 (2021). [Abs]

"Always doing your best? Effort and performance in dynamic settings" (with J.-P. Nicolaï and M.-C. Villeval), Theory and Decision, 89(3): 249-286 (2020). [Abs]

"Cost effectiveness and policy announcement: The case of measles mandatory vaccination" (with J. Flaig and P. Michel), Journal of Theoretical Biology, 485: 110028 (2020). [Abs]

"Defaulting firms and systemic risks in financial networks: A normative approach" (with F. Jouneau-Sion and F. Le Grand) Economic Theory, 70: 503-526 (2020). [Abs]

"Informed and uninformed empirical therapy policies" (with J. Flaig), Mathematical Medicine and Biology: A Journal of the IMA, 37(3): 334-350 (2020). [Abs]

"Rational mining limits Bitcoin's emissions", Nature Climate Change, 9: 655 (2019).

"Common dynamics of identity and immigration: The roles of mobility and democracy", Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 22(4): 4 (2019). [Abs]

"Personalized oncology with artificial intelligence: The case of temozolomide" (with F. Le Grand) Artificial Intelligence In Medicine, 99: 101693 (2019). [Abs]

"Optimizing treatment combination for lymphoma using an optimization heuristic" (with F. Le Grand) Mathematical Biosciences, 315: 108227 (2019). [Abs]

"Altruism and fairness in Schelling’s segregation model" (with J. Flaig) Physica A, 527: 121298 (2019). [Abs]

"Optimizing immune cell therapies with artificial intelligence" (with F. Le Grand) Journal of Theoretical Biology, 461: 34-40 (2019). [Abs]

"Comparing approval procedures for new drugs" (with I. Jelovac) The World Economy, 0: 1-22 (2018). [Abs]

"Optimal dynamic regimens with artificial intelligence: The case of temozolomide" (with F. Le Grand) PLoS ONE, 13(6): e0199076 (2018). [Link]

"Administration of temozolomide: Comparison of conventional and metronomic chemotherapy regimens" (with F. Le Grand) Journal of Theoretical Biology, 446: 71-78 (2018). [Abs]

"Canonical modeling of anticipatory vaccination behavior and long term epidemic recurrence" (with J. Flaig and P. Michel) Journal of Theoretical Biology, 436: 26-38 (2018). [Abs]

"The Bitcoin mining game", Ledger, 1: 53-68 (2016). [Abs] [Link]

"The case for periodic OPV routine vaccination campaigns", Journal of Theoretical Biology, 389: 20-27 (2016). [Abs]

"The probability of undetected wild Poliovirus circulation: can we do better?", Journal of Theoretical Biology, 382: 272-278 (2015). [Abs]

"Drug launch timing and international reference pricing" (with I. Jelovac) Health Economics, 24(8): 978-989 (2015). [Abs]

"It will cost you nothing to 'kill' a Proof-of-Stake crypto-currency", Economics Bulletin, 34(2): 1038-1044 (2014). [Abs]

"The geometry of voting power: weighted voting and hyper-ellipsoids" (with W. Zwicker) Games and Economic Behavior, 84: 7-16 (2014). [Abs]

"Evolution of cooperation with similarity to an archetype", Journal of Theoretical Biology, 332: 78-88 (2013). [Abs]

"Are better vaccines really better? The case of a simple stochastic epidemic SIR model", Economics Bulletin, 33(1): 207-216 (2013). [Abs]

"Outils de prévision de la demande (OPD) et pratiques de réduction des stocks" (with T. Houy) Revue d'Economie Industrielle, 139: 27-47 (2012). [Abs]

"Optimal assignment of durable objects to successive agents" (with F. Bloch) Economic Theory, 51(1): 13-33 (2012). [Abs]

"A refinement of prudent choices", Mathematical Social Sciences, 61(3): 166-169 (2011). [Abs]

"Common characterizations of the untrapped set and the top cycle", Theory and Decision, 70(4): 501-509 (2011). [Abs]

"Efficacité des paiements en euros et système de divisions monétaires" (with D. Bounie) Revue Française d'Economie, 24(2): 153-167 (2009). [Abs]

"A characterization of prudent choices", Social Choice and Welfare, 34(2): 181-192 (2009). [Abs]

"Outils de Reporting Structuré (ORS) et pratiques d'Amélioration Continue (AC)" (with T. Houy) Revue Française de Gestion, 35(196): 81-103 (2009). [Abs]

"Lexicographic compositions of two criteria for decision making" (with K.Tadenuma) Journal of Economic Theory, 144(4): 1770-1782 (2009). [Abs]

"More on the stable, generalized stable, absorbing and admissible sets", Social Choice and Welfare, 33(4): 691-698 (2009). [Abs]

"Structural holes in social networks: a remark", Journal of Economic Theory, 144(1): 422-431 (2009).

"Still more on the tournament equilibrium set", Social Choice and Welfare, 32(1): 93-99 (2009). [Abs]

"A characterization of majority voting with quorums", Theory and Decision, 67(3): 295-301 (2009). [Abs]

"Communication, consensus, and order. Who wants to speak first?" (with L. Ménager), Journal of Economic Theory, 143(1): 140-152 (2008). [Abs]

"A note on the Suzumura-consistency", Mathematical Social Sciences, 55(1): 90-95 (2008). [Abs]

"Choice functions with states of mind", Theory and Decision, 65(1): 1-26 (2008). [Abs]

"I want to be a J!: liberalism in group identification problems", Mathematical Social Sciences, 54(1): 59-70 (2007). [Abs]

"A characterization of qualified majority voting rules", Mathematical Social Sciences, 54(1): 17-24 (2007).

"A new characterization of absolute qualified majority voting", Economics Bulletin, 4(3): 1-8 (2007).

"Rationality and order-dependent sequential rationality", Theory and Decision, 62(2): 119-134 (2007). [Abs]

"When inertia generates political cycles: a remark", Economics Bulletin, 4(16): 1-5 (2007). [Abs]

"Endogenously weighted voting", Journal of Public Economic Theory, 9(6): 1079-1102 (2007). [Abs]

"Some further characterizations for the forgotten voting rules", Mathematical Social Sciences, 53(1): 111-121 (2006). [Abs]

"Doit-on rénegocier la Constitution européenne?", Economie Appliquée, 59(2): 179-193 (2006).

"Positional independence in preference aggregation: a remark", Social Choice and Welfare, 27(2): 341-346 (2006). [Abs]

"Exclusion by cognitive limitation", Economics Letters, 90(3): 317-320 (2006). [Abs]

"La Constitution européenne est 50,13%-stable: une note comparative sur la stabilité des Constitutions", Revue Economique, 57(1): 123-134 (2006).

"He said that he said that I am a J!", Economics Bulletin, 4(4): 1-6 (2006). [Abs]

"Corrigendum to "Essential alternatives and set-dependent preferences"", Mathematical Social Sciences, 47(3): 389-392 (2004).

"Constraints on D'' structure using PKP(AB-DF), PKP(BC-DF) and PcP-P traveltime data from broad-band records" (with H. Tkalcic and B. Romanowicz), Geophysical Journal International, 148: 599-616 (2002). [Abs]

In books

"Une axiomatisation des choix prudents", Modèles Formels de l'Interaction (2009) eds. N. Maudet, P.-Y. Schobbens, M. Guyomard: 171-180.

"Communication, consensus et ordre de parole" (with L. Ménager), Modèles Formels de l'Interaction, (2007), eds. J. Lang, Y. Lespérance, D. Sadek, N. Maudet: 163-174.

"Communication, consensus and order. Who wants to speak first?" (with L. Ménager) Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (2007) ed. Dov Samet: 203-211.

Participation in "Théorie économique et rationalité" (I. Ekeland, J. Elster) (2011) ed. Vuibert coll. "Philosophie des Sciences".

In working papers

"Random tags can sustain high heterophily levels" (with J. Flaig) ArXiv.

"Forecasts in Schelling's segregation model" ArXiv.

"Optimizing training programs for athletic performance: a Monte-Carlo Tree Search variant method" medRXiv.

"Epidemic control using stochastic and deterministic transmission models: performance comparison with and without parameter uncertainties" medRXiv.

Misc

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Cited in or interviewed by: Libération, Les Inrockuptibles, La Recherche, Stylist, France Inter, ARTE, Phosphore, Rue89, Science et Vie, Science et Vie Junior, Version Femina, Le Parisien, Usbek&Rica, AFP, Capital, CNet France, Rotary Mag, Le Revenu.

Large audience interventions:

Erdös number: 3.

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