Dialogue agents are often designed with the tacit assumption that at any one time, there is but one agent and one human, and that their communication channel is exclusive. We are interested in examining situations in which multiple heterogeneous dialogue agents need to interact with a human interlocutor, and where the communication channel becomes necessarily shared. To this end we have constru...

According to the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (September 2007), we have the following description for supply chain management: “supply chain management encompasses the planning and management of all activities involved in sourcing and procurement, conversion, and all logistics management activities. Importantly, it also includes coordination and collaboration with channel pa...

Abstract Two variations on Wyner’s common information are proposed: conditional and relevant information. These shown to have operational meanings analogous those of in appropriately defined distributed problems compression, simulation channel synthesis. For information, an additional meaning is identified: a multiple-access with private messages, it the minimal common-message rate that enables...

We revisit the problems of state masking and amplification through lens empirical coordination. Specifically, we characterize rate-equivocation-coordination trade-offs regions a state-dependent channel in which encoder has causal strictly knowledge. also extend this characterization to cases two-sided information noisy feedback. Our approach is based on notion core receiver’s knowledge, introdu...

The challenge in the design of a protocol architecture for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) is to efficiently convey information using an unreliable physical channel within a dynamic connected set of mobile limited-range limited-energy radios without the support of any infrastructure. Since a MANET is a dynamic, distributed entity, the optimal control of such a system should also be dynamic and ...

We examine a manufacturer’s pricing strategies in a dual-channel supply chain, in which the manufacturer is a Stackelberg leader and the retailer is a follower. We show the conditions under which the manufacturer and the retailer both prefer a dual-channel supply chain. We examine the coordination schemes for a dual-channel supply chain and find that a manufacturer’s contract with a wholesale p...

Crystal structures and dynamic rearrangements of one-dimensional coordination polymers with 4,4'-dipyridylsulfide (dps) have been studied. Reaction of Ni(NO(3))(2)·6H(2)O with dps in EtOH yielded [Ni(dps)(2)(NO(3))(2)] ·EtOH (1), which had channels filled with guest EtOH molecules among the four Ni(dps)(2) chains. This coordination polymer reversibly transformed the channel structure responding...

Channel coordination using contracts is a topic that commanded a great deal of attention in the supply chain management literature. Several recent studies that tested the performance of coordinating contracts in the laboratory found that they fail to coordinate channels, and a major reason for this failure is that a significant proportion of offers are rejected. Our study extends the body of re...

multicast routing is one of the most important services in multi radio multi channel (mrmc) wireless mesh networks (wmn). multicast routing performance in wmns could be improved by choosing the best routes and the routes that have minimum interference to reach multicast receivers. in this paper we want to address the multicast routing problem for a given channel assignment in wmns. the channels...

many appealing multicast services such as on-demand tv, teleconference, online games and etc. can benefit from high available bandwidth in multi-radio multi-channel wireless mesh networks. when multiple simultaneous transmissions use a similar channel to transmit data packets, network performance degrades to a large extant. designing a good multicast tree to route data packets could enhance the...