Firms often collaborate to produce inter-operability standards so that independently designed products can work together. When this process takes place in a Standard Setting Organization (SSO), participants are typically required to disclose any intellectual property rights (IP) that would be infringed by a proposed standard, and asked for a commitment to license their essential IP on fair, rea...

T paper studies the design of group-buying mechanisms in a two-period game where cohorts of consumers arrive at a deal and make sign-up decisions sequentially. A firm can adopt either a sequential mechanism where the firm discloses to second-period arrivals the number of sign-ups accumulated in the first period, or a simultaneous mechanism where the firm does not post the number of first-period...

This paper deals with the joint spectral radius of a finite set of matrices. We say that a set of matrices has the finiteness property if the maximal rate of growth, in the multiplicative semigroup it generates, is given by the powers of a finite product. Here we address the problem of establishing the finiteness property of pairs of 2× 2 sign-matrices. Such problem is related to the conjecture...

This note deals with linear interval systems whose parameters in system matrix are expressed by intervals. We formalize the system reasoning about structures of interval systems by the structural perturbation principle: the interval system would have the interval property when its underlying sign structure include the component that has the corresponding sign property and the norm of the rest o...

This paper deals with qualitative and structural reasoning on linear interval systems whose parameters are specified by intervals . We formalize the systems of reasoning about structures of interval systems by the qualitative perturbation principle : the interval system would have the interval property when its underlying sign structure include the component that has the corresponding sign prop...

An RLC circuit, certain parameters of which are measured sequentially , that is, one after the other, undergoes signiicant perturbations that aaect its dynamical behavior. By contrast, these perturbations are usually eliminated when the measurements are performed in parallel , that is, when the parameters are measured simultaneously. This result connrms the existence of physical systems with th...

Shared technology platforms are often governed by standard setting organizations (SSOs), where interested parties use a consensus process to address problems of technical coordination and platform provision. Economists have modeled SSOs as certification agents, bargaining forums, collective licensing arrangements and R&D consortia. This paper integrates these diverse perspectives by adapting El...