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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"tit-for-tat"”.
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Characterization of Selfish Behavior in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks through Virtual Emulation
… Cooperation among these nodes is essential for the sustenance of multi hop communication. However, battery and bandwidth constraints may lead nodes in an ad hoc network to adopt energy- and bandwidth-conserving strategies. As routing and packet forwarding are end results of cooperation, …
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Approche expérimentale des comportements d'anti-prédation chez le tilapia du Nil (Oreochromis niloticus): détection and évaluation des risques de prédation par les juvéniles
… adoptent des comportements d'inspection de type "tit-for-tat" lorsque le prédateur est actif. Les effets de l'alimentation et de la taille du banc sont explorés.
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International trade policy, oligopoly and learning-by-doing (with applications to the international aircraft industry)
… is to investigate various policy implications for international trade under duopoly with learning effects and to examine under what assumptions of strategy adopted by the rival will result in trade disputes. Interestingly, the adoption of a "tit-for-tat" strategy can be claimed by a government …
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The ‘Retention in Randomised Control Trials (RRCT)’ Project
… perspectives can be applied to reasons for retention and attrition, for instance Prisoner’s Dilemma, Tit-For-Tat strategy, reciprocal altruism, moral motivation, reciprocity and building social obligations.
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Achieving Robustness and Generalization in MARL for Sequential Social Dilemmas through Bilinear Value Networks
This thesis presents a novel approach for training multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) agents that are robust to different unforeseen gameplay strategies in sequential social dilemma (SSD) games. Recent literature has demonstrated that reward shaping can not only be used to enable MARL agents …
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Edgeworth price cycles in retail gasoline markets
In this dissertation, I present three essays that are motivated by the interesting and dynamic price-setting behavior of firms in Canadian retail gasoline markets. In the first essay, I examine behavior at the market level for 19 Canadian cities over 574 weeks. I find three distinct pricing …
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EU-Russia energy relations: What chance for solutions? : A focus on the natural gas sector
… At the core of the conflict is a struggle for resource rents between energy producing, energy consuming and transit countries. Supposed secondary aspects, however, are also of great importance. They comprise of geopolitics, market access, economic development and state sovereignty. The …
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Raptorqp2P: Maximize The Performance Of P2P File Distribution With Raptorq Coding
… (P2P) file sharing system widely used for distributing large files over the Internet. It has attracted extensive attentions from both network operators and researchers for investigating its deployment and performance. For example, recent studies have shown that under steady state, its …
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On death ground : why weak states resist great powers explaining coercion failure in asymmetric interstate conflict
… strategies, threatening or using limited force to convince weak states to comply with their demands. While coercive strategies have succeeded in just over half of asymmetric crises since World War I, there remain a number of cases in which weak states have chosen to resist. With their …
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Evolutionary methods for self-organizing cooperation in peer-to-peer networks
… attention of both final users and researchers for its features. P2P networks shift from the classic client-server approach to a high level of decentralization where there is no central control and all the nodes should be able not only to require services, but to provide them to other peers as …
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Education rights : lessons for and from Northern Ireland
This application for a Ph.D by independent research and publication is based on research and scholarship in the area of education law and children’s rights in Northern Ireland since 1998. The research was carried out at Queen’s University, Belfast first while I was a senior lecturer in the School …