The relevance of the study is due to process structural reorganization entire global system international relations. It noted that, along with military power, economic, scientific, technical, and information spheres state’s activities are coming fore, stimulating their work in arena. emphasized that this circumstance determines complex interdependence main actors relations at present stage. arg...

This study investigated the effect, on reactor performance and biomass retention inside the bed, of the material used to make the supports of anaerobic fixed-bed reactors. Three inert supports of similar shape but made of three different materials polyvinyl chloride, polypropylene, high-density polyethylene were manufactured and used. All three supports had the same specific surface area but di...

Speaker recognition is usually accomplished by building a set of models from speech of a known speaker, training data, and subsequently using a pattern matching algorithm to score the speech from an unknown speaker, test data. In this paper we discard the notion of train and test data in speaker recognition and introduce the multilateral scoring technique. This technique comprises building spea...

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We develop a model of decentralized monetary exchange that can be used to examine the distributional effects of inflation across heterogeneous agents who have private information. The private information can be about the productivity, preferences, or money holdings of the agents. Matching is multilateral and each seller is visited by a stochastic number of buyers. The good is allocated accordin...

In this paper, we propose and analyze a distributed negotiation strategy for a multi-agent multi-attribute negotiation in which the agents have no information about the utility functions of other agents. We analytically prove that, if the zone of agreement is non-empty and the agents concede up to their reservation utilities, agents generating o↵ers using our o↵er-generation strategy, namely th...

We study multilateral bargaining games where agents disagree over their bar-gaining power. We show that if agents are extremely optimistic, there may be costlydelays in an arbitrarily long finite game but if optimism is moderate, all sufficientlylong games end in immediate agreement. We show that the game with extremeoptimism is highly unstable in the finite-horizon, and we exam...