How are price judgments influenced by the distribution of observed prices for other items in the same category? Processing goals will moderate price-judgment processes. When the processing goal is discrimination, price perceptions will be influenced by variations in range and ranks of prices in a distribution and contrast effects will be observed. For example, lowering the price of the lowest-p...

One-clock priced timed games is a class of two-player, zero-sum, continuous-time games that was defined and thoroughly studied in previous works. We show that one-clock priced timed games can be solved in time m12n, where n is the number of states and m is the number of actions. The best previously known time bound for solving one-clock priced timed games was 2 2+m), due to Rutkowski. For our i...

’ A preliminary version of this paper appeared in “Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing,,” Portland, OR, May 2000. ‘Current affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. Most of this work was done while the author was at Stanford University and was visiting IBM Almaden Research Center. Research at Stanford was supported by...

Priced timed automata are emerging as useful formalisms for modeling and analysing a broad range of resource allocation problems. In this extended abstract, we highlight recent (un)decidability results related to priced timed automata as well as point to a number of open problems.

All modern vapor anesthetics are capable of carbon monoxide (CO) production as a result of interaction with desiccated strong base containing carbon dioxide absorbents. In desiccated absorbents, desflurane produces the highest concentrations of CO. Sevoflurane is known to produce the nephrotoxic compound A (CA) independently from water content of the carbon dioxide absorbent. The purpose of thi...