In this paper a new approach to construction of iterative methods of bilateral approximations of eigenvalue is proposed and investigated. The conditions on initial approximation, which ensure the convergence of iterative processes, are obtained.

Affiliates of German firms in Eastern Europe differ from those in the rest of the world. They have smaller sales and they employ more labor. Labor productivity is thus lower than in affiliates of German firms elsewhere. Moreover, multinational activity in Eastern Europe is mostly unilaterally whereas, for industrialized countries, bilateral FDI linkages dominate. In this paper, we aim at explai...

The design of automated negotiators has been the focus of abundant research in recent years. However, due to difficulties involved in creating generalized agents that can negotiate in several domains and against human counterparts, many automated negotiators are domain specific and their behavior cannot be generalized for other domains. Some of these difficulties arise from the differences inhe...

Bilateral laparoscopic ovariectomy performed in standing mares eliminates many of the potential complications associated with traditional methods of ovariectomy. When compared with previously described techniques, the technique described here requires minimal laparoscopic instrumentation. Dissection of the ovarian pedicle prior to ligation is considered essential to ligature security. Authors’ ...

1) Fellow in Pharyngology at Clínicas Hospital of Medicine College at São Paulo University. Otorhinolaryngologist. 2) PhD in Otorhinolaryngology by Paulista School of Medicine. Preceptor of medical residency in Otorhinolaryngology at Paulista Hospital, São Paulo Brazil. 3) Fellow in Plastic Surgery of the Face at Clínicas Hospital of Medicine College of São Paulo University. Otorhinolaryngologi...

We model situations in which a principal provides incentives to a group of agents to participate in a project (such as a social event or a commercial activity). Agents’ benefits from participation depend on the identity of other participating agents. We assume bilateral externalities and characterize the optimal incentive mechanism. Using a graph-theoretic approach we show that the optimal mech...

This paper investigates a novel position sensor based force reflection framework for multi degrees-of-freedom bilateral teleoperation systems in unstructured environments. The conventional position sensor based force reflection method, known as position error feedback, may generate grossly inaccurate force reflection directions during collisions involving the slave manipulator links. The propos...

In amultilateral enforcement regime, a player who cheats on one partner is punished bymany partners. But if partners can renegotiate in private, they can subvert the power of the multilateral punishment. We introduce a new notion of “bilateral renegotiation proofness” that applies to multilateral games with private monitoring. For symmetric networked environments, we characterize an optimal bil...

This paper describes a design technique for simultaneously increasing the transparency bandwidth and stability robustness of a two-channel position-force bilateral teleoperation architecture. Specifically, the stability and performance enhancements are obtained by introducing a dynamic compensator into the system to shape the frequency-domain properties of the human-teleoperatorenvironment loop...

The most efficient labor market mechanism depends on the advantages of specialization, workers’ costs of switching between entrepreneurs, and the frequency with which needs change. Multilateral mechanisms are more efficient when specialization is more advantageous, when it is cheap for workers to switch between entrepreneurs, and when individual entrepreneurs cannot occupy a worker on a full-ti...