We consider the problem of locating a facility on a network, represented by a graph. A set of strategicagents have different ideal locations for the facility; the cost of an agent is the distance between its ideallocation and the facility. A mechanism maps the locations reported by the agents to the location of thefacility. Specifically, we are interested in social choice mechan...

In many real-world settings, strategic agents are instructed to follow best-reply dynamics (economic markets, Internet protocols, etc.). Such settings give rise to many questions: Will best-reply dynamics “converge” or go on indefinitely? Will they converge quickly? What happens in distributed and asynchronous settings in which communication between players may be delayed or lost? Is it in the ...

Speakers include: Irit Akirav (Haifa); Antonio Armario (Spain); Eyal Asor (Haifa-Technion); (Edi Barkai (Haifa); Katharina Braun (Germany); Patrizia Campolongo (Italy); Alon Chen (Israel); Dori Derdikman (Haifa-Technion); Aline Desmedt (France); Guillaume Ferreira (France); Inna Gaisler-Salomon (Haifa); Uwe Heinemann (Germany); James Herman (USA); Andrew Holmes (USA); Megan Holmes (United Kingd...

1 The Resource Exchange, Colorado Springs, CO, USA 2 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel 3 Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel 4 Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel 5 Kentucky Children’s Hospital, Univer...

R. Winik,1,2 D. Cogan,2 Y. Don,2 I. Schwartz,2 L. Gantz,2 E. R. Schmidgall,2 N. Livneh,3 R. Rapaport,3 E. Buks,1 and D. Gershoni2,* 1Andrew and Erna Viterbi Department of Electrical Engineering, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel 2The Physics Department and the Solid State Institute, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, 32000 Haifa, Israel 3Applied Physics Department, The Benin School of Compute...

nucleus of Parkinsonian patients 2 Marc Deffains , Peter Holland , Shay Moshel , Fernando Ramirez de Noriega , 3 Hagai Bergman 1,2 & Zvi Israel 5 4 1 Department of Medical Neurobiology, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical 5 School, Jerusalem, 91120, Israel 6 2 The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University, 7 Jerusalem, 91904, Israel 8 3 Alpha Omega Engineering Lt...

ABSTRACT Crown rust (Puccinia coronata) in indigenous populations of Avena sterilis has been cited as an example of stability of wild pathosystems that consist of natural mixtures of resistance and virulence. This study confirmed that virulence/avirulence polymorphisms in P. coronata on A. sterilis in Israel are highly diverse and that super races do not dominate. Isolates of P. coronata from I...

Alon et. al. [3], showed that every property that is characterized by a finite collection of forbidden induced subgraphs is -testable. However, the complexity of the test is double-tower with respect to 1/ , as the only tool known to construct such tests uses a variant of Szemerédi’s Regularity Lemma. Here we show that any property of bipartite graphs that is characterized by a finite collectio...

1 Laboratory of Chromatin Structure and Functions, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology RAS, Moscow 119991, Russia 2Department of Biology, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 32000 Haifa, Israel 3Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel 4Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Universi...