Two players are allowed to communicate repeatedly through a mediator and then have a direct communication. The device receives private inputs from each of the two players and produces as public output a fixed deterministic function of the inputs. After the communication terminates the players play an arbitrary finite complete information normal form game. We show that any correlated equilibrium...

When lymphocytes obtained from persons or animals exhibiting delayed hypersensitivity are stimulated in vitro by specific antigen, they produce a number of soluble substances with various biologic activities including migration inhibitory factor (MIF) 1 and lymphocyte mitogenic factor (LMF) (1-4). Since delayed hypersensitivity reactions have been generally assumed to be mediated by thymus-depe...

In the recent years, XML has become the universal interchange format. Many investigations have been made on storing, querying and integrating XML with existing applications. Many XML-based commercial DBMSs have appeared lately. This paper reports on the analysis of an XML mediator federating several existing XML DBMSs. We measure their storage and querying capabilities directly through their Ja...

In this paper we introduce a negotiation mediator in a multiagent context. When negotiation fails, a mediator can interact with the parties, find out about their goals, ontologies, and arguments for and against negotiation outcome, and suggest solutions based on previous experience. An algorithmic schema to be instantiated with particular argumentation, semantic alignment and case-base reasonin...

Statistical mechanics has proven to be able to capture the fundamental rules underlying phenomena of social aggregation and opinion dynamics, well studied in disciplines like sociology and psychology. This approach is based on the underlying paradigm that the interesting dynamics of multi-agent systems emerge from the correct definition of few parameters governing the evolution of each individu...

The macromolecular assembly required to initiate transcription of protein-coding genes, known as the Pre-Initiation Complex (PIC), consists of multiple protein complexes and is approximately 3.5 MDa in size. At the heart of this assembly is the Mediator complex, which helps regulate PIC activity and interacts with the RNA polymerase II (pol II) enzyme. The structure of the human Mediator-pol II...

Background: Protein-protein interactions do not provide any direct information re‌garding the domains within the proteins that mediate the interactions. The majority of proteins are multi domain proteins and the interaction between them is often defined by the pairs of their domains. Most of the former studies focus only on interacting do‌main pairs. However they do not consider the in...