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On the Escalation and De-Escalation of Conflict We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict behavior and repeated interaction on the allocation of effort between production and appropriation. Without repeated interaction, destruction of resources by defeated players can lead to lower appropriative efforts and high...

In two studies, we examined the relationship between resistance to heteronormativity and political engagement among heterosexuals. In the first, we examined the relationship between awareness of heterosexual privilege, resistance to heteronormativity, and engagement in lesbian and gay rights activism among contemporary heterosexual college students. As expected, women scored higher than men on ...

In this paper, we describe a general method for controlling the behavior of mobile agent-system entities through the allocation of privileges. Privileges refer to policy rules that govern the access and use of computational resources and services. The scheme is based on the capability of most mobile agent systems to extend the platform processing environment and the use of two forms of privileg...

Mary Ellen Zurko Laboratory for Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Digital Equipment Corporation Littleton, MA, 01460 This paper describes the User Attribute Service (UAS), a tool providing the stomge and management of application-specific per-user security attributes for applications running in a distributed environment. The UAS provides for the security and integrity o...

Federated identity and privilege management are the cornerstones of access management on the Web. The increasing trend of business integration across enterprises and Web-based collaboration has led to tremendous growth of the identity and privilege management research and products in the recent past. However, despite the existence of available mechanisms, there are drawbacks in almost all well-...

of the Conference Program: Rapidly emerging economies such as China, India, Mexico, Brazil and South Africa are taking center stage in antitrust enforcement. Multinational firms must have regard to the competition systems of these and other developing nations when engaging in merger activity, collaborating with competitors, and pricing, distributing, and licensing their products. Competition au...

We propose a simple grammarless procedure to extract phrasal translation examples from aligned parallel texts. It is based on the difference of word sequence in two languages.

man can hope to attain in this city. Once again your choice of President has fallen on one of the rank and file of the profession, for although it has been my pride and privilege to have been connected with the staff of the Infirmary in a subordinate position for the last few years, still all my medical career has been passed as a general practitioner. As such I should like to express my gratit...