Mohammed A. E. Elmakki , Orbett T. Alexander Gertruida J. S. Venter, Johan Venter* & Andreas Roodt* Department of Chemistry, University the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

In a complete graph on n vertices, the edges are assigned independent random costs from a fixed distribution μ on the non-negative real numbers. This is the mean field model of distance. Several well-known optimization problems consist in finding a set of edges of minimum total cost under certain constraints. Examples are minimum matching, spanning tree, and the traveling salesman problem (TSP)...

In certain finite extensive games with perfect information, Cristina Bicchieri (1989) derives a logical contradiction from the assumptions that players are rational and that they have common knowledge of the theory of the game. She argues that this may account for play outside the Nash equilibrium. She also claims that no inconsistency arises if the players have the minimal beliefs necessary to...

Carlo A. Mallio, Caterina Bernetti, Gennaro Castiello, Emma Gangemi, Valeria Tomarchio, Ombretta Annibali, Luigi Rigacci, Johan Van Goethem, Paul M. Parizel, Bruno Beomonte Zobel, C. Quattrocchi

The following Note responds to a recent article by Johan Olsthoorn and Laurens van Apeldoorn on slavery political absolutism in Locke’s Two Treatises of Government. engages with Apeldoorn’s important but queries its principal contentions.