This study considers the twin problems of free riding and coordination failure, which are prevalent in provision multiple public goods with diminishing marginal returns. Specifically, we consider a game two goods, each has an upper bound effective contribution. Any costly contributions beyond wasted. In this game, payoff-sum maximizing Pareto-optimal outcome requires sum by group members to be ...

Competing populations of finite automata co-evolve in an evolutionary algorithm to play two player games. Populations endowed with greater complexity do better against their less complex opponents in a strictly competitive constant sum game. In contrast, complexity determines efficiency levels, but not relative earnings, in a Prisoner’s Dilemma game; greater levels of complexity result in mutua...

هديكچ ط ي لاس اه ي خا ي ر پ ي تفرش لباق هظحلام ا ي رد طابترا اب لولس ه ا ي نب ي دا ي لصاح هدش تسا هک ون ي د شخب هار اهراک ي ون ي ن نامرد ي رد ب ي رام ي اه ي بعص جلاعلا م ي .دشاب ا ي ن لولس اه هک رد مامت ناگرا ي مس اه ي دنچ لولس ي روضح ،دنراد اناوت يي سقت ي م و دبت ي ل هب لولس اه يي سب ي را صاصتخا ي ار هتشاد و نچمه ي ن رداق هب اج ي زگ ي ن ...

We study new classes of games, called zero-sum equivalent games and zero-sum equivalent potential games, and prove decomposition theorems involving these classes of games. We say that two games are “strategically equivalent” if, for every player, the payoff differences between two strategies (holding other players’ strategies fixed) are identical. A zero-sum equivalent game is a game that is st...

We design and analyze minimax-optimal algorithms for online linear optimization games where the player’s choice is unconstrained. The player strives to minimize regret, the difference between his loss and the loss of a post-hoc benchmark strategy. While the standard benchmark is the loss of the best strategy chosen from a bounded comparator set, we consider a very broad range of benchmark funct...

Big box retail stores have large impact on local economies and receive large subsidies from local governments. Hence it is important to understand how discount retail chains choose store locations. In this paper, I study the entry decisions of those firms, examine the role of preemptive incentives, and evaluate the impact of government subsidies on those decisions. To quantify preemptive incent...

صخلملا A total of 48 fresh water fishes, belonging to four species of the family Cyprinidae (Capoeta trutta, Chalcalburnus mossulensis, Cyprinion macrostomum and Leuciscus lepidus) were collected from Darbandikhan lake, southwest Sulaimaniya city, Kurdistan region, in the north of Iraq, from March to the end of July 2008. The inspection of gills revealed the infection of these fishes with four ...

ش ي ر ي ن ي فسو ي نا 1 (M.Sc) ، س ي د ما ي د انعر يي س ي تدا 1 (Ph.D) ، ونهد ناسحا ي 1 و 2 (Ph.D) ، قتدمحم ي جرب ي نا ـنجورب ي 1 (M.Sc) زاـنرف ن ي دازك نانمج ي 1 و 3 (M.Sc) 1 هاگشناد هش ي د تشهب ي ، هدكشناد ي سدنهم ي ژرنا ي روانف و ي اه ي ون ي ،ن امزآ ي هاگش بونان ي ژولونكتو ي ، ب هورگ ي ژولونكتو ي 2 هاگشناد برت ي ت هدكشناد ،سردم ي ز مولع ي تس ي 3 هاگشناد ملا...

Throughput and energy efficiency in 3-way relay channels are studied in this paper. Unlike previous contributions, we consider a circular message exchange. First, an outer bound and achievable sum rate expressions for different relaying protocols are derived for 3-way relay channels. The sum capacity is characterized for certain SNR regimes. Next, leveraging the derived achievable sum rate expr...

In this report, we summarize the paper by Ramesh Johari and John Tsitsiklis [1]. This paper considers the problem of distributed resource allocation mechanisms for the Internet. The current Internet is used widely by a heterogenous population of users. Different users place different values on the perceived network performance. Moreover there are some fundamental constraints on the maximum rate...