The focus of this research is in the area of Japanese soft power in Japan-China relations. The extent to which Japanese soft power is effective in Japan-China relations August 22, 2013 2 The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the extent to which Japanese soft power is effective on the bilateral relationship. Such a study is important in order to clarify how Japanese culture serves as a ...

Yoshida for their constant guidance and advice during research. for their warm friendship and constant supports during my three years in Kyoto University. My profound gratitude goes to the Ministry of Education, Sports, and Culture of Japan for providing me with the scholarship to study in Japan for three years. Finally, my deepest sense of gratitude goes to my parents. iii iv Executive Summary...

Population learning in dynamic economies has been traditionally studied in oversimplified settings where payoff landscapes are very smooth. Indeed, in these models, all agents play the same bilateral stage-game against any opponent and stage-game payoffs reflect very simple strategic situations (e.g. coordination). In this paper, we address a preliminary investigation of dynamic population game...

With increased sophistication and standardization of modeling languages and execution platforms supporting business process management (BPM) across traditional boundaries, has come the need for consolidated insights into their exploitation from a business perspective. Key technology developments in BPM bear this out, with several web services-related initiatives investing significant effort in ...

Most pathologies (tumor, bleed, stroke) of the human brain can be determined by a symmetry-based analysis of neural scans showing the brain's 3D internal structure. Detecting departures of this internal structure from its normal bilateral symmetry can guide the classi cation of abnormalities. This process is facilitated by rst locating the ideal symmetry plane (midsagittal) with respect to whic...

Human and artificial agents routinely make critical choices about interaction partners. The decision about which of several possible candidates to interact with, either for a limited or extended time period, has significant importance on the competitiveness, survivability, and overall utility of an agent. We assume that an agent has time and resource constraints that limit its participation to ...

Human adults can assess the number of objects in a set (numerosity) by approximate estimation or by exact counting. There is evidence suggesting that numerosity estimation depends on a dedicated mechanism that is a-modal and non-verbal. By contrast, counting requires the coordination between the pre-existing numerosity estimation abilities with language and one-to-one correspondence principles....

We analyze the stability of previously proposed mobile robot teleoperation system [7]. Unlike to other approaches human-operator dynamics is included for the stability analysis. Mobile robot teleoperation systems have two major differences when they are compared with conventional bilateral teleoperators: first, rate mode control is used; second, absence of physical interaction of the robot with...

In this paper we analyze the joint implications of two effects: (a) inserting independent profit-maximizing retailers into the channel system provides “buffering” to the manufacturers from price competition when their products are highly substitutable and intrachannel contracts are observable (as shown by McGuire and Staelin 1983 under the assumption of constant marginal production costs), and,...

We provide evidence that long-term relationships between trading parties emerge endogenously in the absence of third party enforcement of contracts and are associated with a fundamental change in the nature of market interactions. Without third party enforcement, the vast majority of trades are initiated with private offers and the parties share the gains from trade equally. Low effort or bad q...