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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"Common Knowledge"”.
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Agreeing to Agree and Trade
We study when agents can have posteriors with a common prior such that it is common knowledge that the posteriors for an event E coincide. For any finite number of agents, we recast this possibility of agreeing to agree as the existence of a common prior which solves a linear system of homogeneous …
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On Backward Induction Paradox
… states that a rational player who shares the common knowledge of (or belief in) rationality, in a certain kind of games, chooses to end the game at each of his nonterminal nodes. Lately, the viability of backward induction argument has been questioned. The problem is that acting according to …
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Quantitative Studies Defining the Cellular Composition of the Human Brain and Spinal Cord
… fractionator, challenged the long-standing "common" knowledge about the cellular composition of the human brain, by claiming a much lower glia neuron ratio. This study also asserted that glia numbered less than 80 billion, a drastic reduction from the several trillion glia cells previously …
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Essays on economic theory
… may be misleading as these theories assume common knowledge of the type structure after specifying the first or the second orders of beliefs. Focusing on normal-form games in which the players' strategy spaces are compact metric spaces, we show that our key condition, called "global …
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A theory of individual-level predicates based on blind mandatory implicatures : constraint promotion for optimality theory
… this implicature mismatches with the piece of common knowledge that tallness is a permanent property. Chapter 1 presents the idea informally. This idea faces two challenges. First, this scalar implicature must be mandatory and furthermore blind to common knowledge. Second, it is not clear how …
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Tax planning for the South African emigrant to the United States, having reference to proposed & actual legislative changes in 1987-1988
… officially emigrating to various countries is common knowledge to some and would be not surprising to many. The reasons for what may appropriately be called this 'wave of emigration' are beyond the scope of this work. Certainly the decision of each individual or household to emigrate - whether …
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Geometric Graph Theory and Wireless Sensor Networks
… distributed algorithm, the sensors can build common knowledge of their network topology.</p> <p>We first study the following inverse visibility problem: What positions of sensors and obstacles define the computed visibility graph, with fewest obstacles? This is the problem of finding a minimum …
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代格拉佤语的松紧音研究 = A STUDY OF THE TENSE AND LAX CONTRAST IN DAIGELA WA
… the tense vs. lax contrast despite the previous common knowledge that varieties of the Masan sub-group have neither tone nor phonation contrast. This paper, through analyses of the acoustic and phonation signals of eight speakers of Daigela village by means of several parameters, studies the …
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Modeling studies of acoustic propagation through the Agulhas Current region
… from the apparent global warming problem. It is common knowledge that the ocean is an important heat sink and that to predict global warming trends it is important to measure changes in the ocean temperature. Measurements of ocean temperature are subject to large local variability associated with …
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Extending a quantifier scope resolution algorithm by accounting for negation.
… by speakers of a given language by relaying on common knowledge. Typical of this is the problem of resolving quantifier scope ambiguity. In this report we investigate the thesis that the QC algorithm of Saba and Corriveau can be extended to account for negation. We propose an extension to Saba …
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Bayesian Time Series Structure Learning: Formulation of an Event Driven Prior Distribution
… traffic dynamics are comparatively accessible to common knowledge, we choose traffic time series as a test case to examine general behaviors of TIM inference and in particular our parameterization of the structure prior.
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Essays on economic theory
… a stochastic contractible outcome. The game is common knowledge among the agents, but the principal only knows some of the available action profiles. Realizing that the game may be bigger than he thinks, the principal evaluates contracts based on their guaranteed performance across all games …
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Effective Teamwork Using a Theory of Mind Over Plans
… When there is no guarantee that agents have common knowledge of the task and can observe each other's actions, agents' beliefs about plans can often be incorrect or misaligned, causing them to make uninformed choices of actions that lead to task failure. My research investigates how an agent …
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The influence of the Gonads on Protein Metabolism
… effect can be. From the earliest of times it was common knowledge that gonadectomy in either males or females resulted in sterility. Associated with this sterility were several well marked physical and mental changes, as represented by the non-appearance of the secondary sexual characters, which …
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Reasonable computing for architectural fabrication
… of people in its ability to objectify common knowledge. This thesis describes the Adeon system, a software agent for implementation at the initial design stages whereupon the designer conceptualizes about a particular building component while the Adeon system serves to bridge the gap …
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Essays on Information Economics
… every outcome distribution induced by general common prior information structures. In this parameterized family, players observe signals of two kinds: A finite signal and a common state with additive, idiosyncratic noise. We characterize the set of rationalizable outcomes of a given game as a …
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International trade theory: treatment of distribution services
… or analytical merits of such assumptions, it is common knowledge that the actual process of moving an economic good or service between two countries say entail the services of shippers, insurance agents, bankers, merchants, freight-forwarders, mail men, telephone operators, lawyers, commission …
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A descriptive-evaluative study of the role of integrated group work as a mediating influence in the divorce adjustment process in women : a social work study conducted in Cape Town
… decades. The disruptive effects of divorce are common knowledge. What is less well known is the facilitating or mediating process which enhances divorce adjustment. The issue of divorce adjustment is of concern to mental health professionals. A growing number of divorcing and divorced women have …
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Essays on coordination, cooperation, and learning
… games with exit. It is shown that lack of common knowledge creates a fear of miscoordination which pushes players away from the full-information Pareto frontier. Unlike in one-shot two-by-two games, the global games information structure does not yield equilibrium uniqueness, however, by …
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Vision on tap : an online computer vision toolkit
… to commodity cameras that are not yet common knowledge. In support of this visual development environment, we also present an online community that allows users to share applications made in the environment, assisting the dissemination of both the knowledge of camera capabilities and …
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