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Games of skill are an excellent source of recreation and relaxation. Games are also the safest and readily accessible constructs for social interaction and community affairs which potentially opens up new avenues for realising personal worth, social acceptance, respect & recognition. However, when these games are played with real money, ensuring game prudence, whereby users play real-money skill games only for entertainment purposes, and do so well within their resourceful means, becomes necessary. It becomes paramount for the wellness of players and also to ensure online gaming is only available for sheer entertainment. In this proposal, we present an automated, data driven, AI powered, Responsible Game Play (RGP) framework cum tool which has been integrated in our online skill gaming platform. RGP pipeline is a combination of: a) a couple of anomaly detection Rule Based Engines; b) a Deep Learning Pipeline which models the game play characteristics of healthy and engaged players to identify potentially risky players, and c) a ML based Local Expert which leverages users' longitudinal behavioral patterns and constructs new features using the adjacent AI OPS and Signal Processing Domains. We integrate the psychometric assessment to nudge and coarse correct at-risk players proactively, ahead of time

An analysis is conducted of the variable search (VS) method of Dorian Shainin. Certain conditions are identified where the VS approach is less effective than traditional designs. Theoretical and simulation studies establish the importance of process knowledge and noise variation to successful use of the VS design.

Controlling the morphology of the as-synthesized nanostructures is usually challenging, and there lacks of a general theoretical guidance in experimental approach. In this study, a novel way of optimizing the aspect ratio of hydrothermally grown ZnO nanowire (NW) arrays is presented by utilizing a systematic statistical design and analysis method. In this work, we use pick-the-winner rule and one-pair-at-a-time main effect analysis to sequentially design the experiments and identify optimal reaction settings. By controlling the hydrothermal reaction parameters (reaction temperature, time, precursor concentration, and capping agent), we improved the aspect ratio of ZnO NWs from around 10 to nearly 23. The effect of noise on the experimental results was identified and successfully reduced, and the statistical design and analysis methods were very effective in reducing the number of experiments performed and in identifying the optimal experimental settings. In addition, the antireflection spectrum of the as-synthesized ZnO NWs clearly shows that higher aspect ratio of the ZnO NW arrays leads to about 30% stronger suppression in the UV-vis range emission. This shows great potential applications as antireflective coating layers in photovoltaic devices.