Virtual enterprises need reliable and efficient cooperation mechanisms to carry out transactions between autonomous agents with conflicting interests. Available cooperation mechanisms either use bilateral multi-step negotiation or auctioning. Negotiations encourage agents to reason about the interests of their opponents. Thus, negotiations suffer from counterspeculations. Auctions apply to asym...

نظم مركز ابن خلدون للعلوم الإنسانية والاجتماعية حوارًا مفتوحًا لمناقشة جدوى العلوم الاجتماعية لدى صناع القرار وذلك يوم الإثنين (18 أبريل 2022) الموافق السابع عشر من شهر رمضان المبارك. استضاف المركز عِدّة أساتذة جامعة قطر، ومعهد الدوحة للدراسات العُليا، ومؤسسة قطر مختلف مجالات الاجتماعية؛ للإجابة على أسئلة طُرحت خلال الحوار. حيث جاء الحوار لمساءلة اتهام بالإخفاق في إثبات جدواها والتأثير إقناع صُنَّاع الق...

In the class of systems with linear precoder and zeroforcing (ZF) DFE for zero-padded MIMO frequency selective channels, existing optimal transceiver designs present two major drawbacks. First, the optimal system requires a large number of bits to encode the full precoding matrix. Second, the full precoding matrix leads to complex computations. These disadvantages become more severe as bandwidt...

We design efficient numerical schemes for approximating the MHD equations in multidimensions. Numerical approximations must be able to deal with the complex wave structure of the MHD equations and the divergence constraint. We propose schemes based on the genuinely multidimensional (GMD) framework of [S. Mishra and E. Tadmor, Commun. Comput. Phys. 9 (2010) 688–710; S. Mishra and E. Tadmor, SIAM...

Many preterm neonates have white-matter damage (WMD, damaged connections between neurons) and grey matterdamage (GMD, dead neurons). These children are known to have lower IQs than their full-term peers, yet the mechanisms underlying this association are poorly understood. We designed a developmental connectionist model of the Raven Matrices IQ task in which (1) all neurons had intact output, s...