Real world players often increase their payo¤s by voluntarily committing to play a …xed strategy, prior to the start of a strategic game. In fact, the players may further bene…t from commitments that are conditional on the commitments of others. This paper proposes a model of conditional commitments that uni…es earlier models while avoiding circularities that often arise in such models. A commi...

A positive relationship between employee engagement and affective commitment is already documented in the literature. However, we do not adequately know how engagement is associated with continuance and normative commitment. Using survey methodology we find that while engagement has a non-significant positive association with continuance commitment; it has a positive association with normative ...

This paper attempt has been made to explain a fuzzy commitment scheme. In the conventional Commitment schemes, both committed string m and valid opening key are required to enable the sender to prove the commitment. However there could be many instances where the transmission involves noise or minor errors arising purely because of the factors over which neither the sender nor the receiver have...

Löıck Magnin, 2 Frédéric Magniez, Anthony Leverrier, and Nicolas J. Cerf 4 QuIC, École Polytechnique, CP 165, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium LRI, Univ Paris-Sud, CNRS; F-91405 Orsay, France Institut Telecom / Telecom ParisTech, CNRS LTCI, 46 rue Barrault, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mas...

The paper was retracted.

The purpose of this research was to study the relationship between job stress and organizational commitment in National Olympic and Paralympic Academy (NOPA) employees. Statistical population of this research included all employees (full time) of NOPA and statistical sample was equal to the statistical population (n=59). Job stress questionnaire (JSQ) and organizational commitment questionnaire...

Based on tamper-evident devices, i.e., a type of distinguishable, sealed envelopes, we put forward weak bit-commitment protocols which are UC-secure. These commitments are weak in that it is legitimate that a party could cheat. Unlike in several similar lines of work, in our case, the party is not obliged to cheat, but he has ability to cheat if and when needed. The empowered party is the sende...

In recent years, massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) have become very popular by providing more entertainment, therefore millions of players now participate may interact with each other in a shared environment, even though these players may be separated by huge geographic distances. Peer to Peer (P2P) architectures become very popular in MMOG recently, due to their distributed and collab...