evliya chelebi (1611-1682), was an ethnically ottoman explorer who travelled through the territory of the ottoman empire and neighboring lands over a period of forty years, recording his commentary in a travelogue called the seyahatname. during his lifetime, evliya chelebi made three journeys to safavid iran: the first in 1646 to azerbaijan and caucasus, the second in 1647 which was a very shor...

In constructive control, an external agent seeks to change the outcome of an election by adding, deleting or partitioning voters or candidates. Traditionally, the manipulative agent has full information, i.e. he knows the candidate set, each voter’s votes and the voting rule. In this paper, we focus on constructive control by adding or deleting voters and examine the complexity of control under...

Abstract: The implementation of government legislation, social responsibility, environmental concerns regarding the reduction of waste, hazardous material and other consumer residuals have made the competition between the firms stricter than ever and nowadays firms that want to survive need a more productive and innovative approach toward the financial aspects of their businesses.his pape...

We revisit the basic variant of classical secretary problem. propose a new approach in which we separate between an agent (the sender) that evaluates performance and one receiver) makes hiring decision. The sender signals quality candidate to agent. Whenever two agents' interests are not fully aligned, this induces information transmission (signaling) challenge for sender. study sender's optimi...

A major current challenge in the area of complex multi-agent systems is the conceptual approach to, and practical treatment of, emergent behaviour. This paper indicates how Formal Methods may be applied to engineer multi-agent adaptive systems exhibiting emergence, by consideration of an ‘emergence predicate’ in the specification and the incremental derivation of interacting components that ach...

We include new data in an updated analysis of helium in low metallicity extragalactic H II regions with the goal of deriving the primordial abundance of He (YP). We show that the new observations of Izotov et al. (ITL) are consistent with previous data. However they should not be taken in isolation to determine YP due to the lack of sufficiently low metallicity points. We use the extant data in...