Opacity is a confidentiality property that characterizes the non-disclosure of specified secret information of a system to an outside observer. In this paper, we consider the enforcement of opacity within the discrete-event system formalism in the presence of multiple intruders. We study two cases, one without coordination among the intruders and the other with coordination. We propose appropri...

Abstract   Vertical cooperative (co-op) advertising is typically a cost sharing mechanism and coordinated effort by the channel’s members in order to increase demand and overall profits. In this marketing strategy, the manufacturer shares a fraction of the retailer’s advertising investment. This paper studies the advertising and pricing decisions in a retailer-manufacturer supply chain in which...

We analyze how private learning in a class of games with common stochastic payoffs affects the form of equilibria, and how properties such as player welfare and the extent of strategic miscoordination relate across monotone and non-monotone equilibria. Researchers typically focus on monotone equilibria. We provide conditions under which non-monotone equilibria also exist, where players attempt ...

Distributed Coordination for Teams of Robots by Joseph William Durham It is anticipated that in the near future autonomous teams of mobile robots will revolutionize the transportation of passengers and goods, search and rescue operations, and other applications. Challenging questions arise in designing coordination algorithms to synthesize and act on spatially distributed information so that a ...

Recent literature models leadership as the process of communication where the rhetorical signals of leaders facilitate followers’ coordination. While studies exist that explored the effects of leadership in experimental settings, there remains a lack of empirical research on the effectiveness of informational tools in real political environments. Using quantitative text analysis of federal and ...

Whereas behavioral studies have made significant contributions toward the identification of the principles governing the coordination of limb movements, little is known about the role of higher brain areas that are involved in interlimb coordination. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to reveal the brain areas activated during the cyclical coordination of ipsilateral wrist an...

BACKGROUND Coordination between the autonomous professional groups in midwifery and obstetrics is a key debate in the Netherlands. At the same time, it remains unclear what the current coordination challenges are. METHODS To examine coordination challenges that might present a barrier to delivering optimal care, we conducted a qualitative field study focusing on midwifery and obstetric profes...

Motor control research relies on theories, such as coordination dynamics, adapted from physical sciences to explain the emergence of coordinated movement in biological systems. Historically, many studies of coordination have involved inter-limb coordination of relatively few degrees of freedom. This study looked at the high-dimensional inter-limb coordination used to perform the golf chip shot ...

The use of metal complexes to achieve a conductive molecular junction with a special focus on organometallics is overviewed and illustrated with representative examples. The prospects offered by such compounds owing to their specific properties are discussed.