Whenever rational agents form coalitions to execute tasks, doing so via a decentralized negotiation process—while more robust and democratic—may lead to a loss of efficiency ...
Georgios Chalkiadakis, Edith Elkind, Maria Polukar...
We develop the foundations for a theory of Group-Centric Secure Information Sharing (g-SIS), characterize a specific family of models in this arena and identify several direction...
Ram Krishnan, Ravi S. Sandhu, Jianwei Niu, William...
Peer-to-peer file-sharing networks depend on peers uploading data to each other. Some peers, called free-riders, will not upload data unless there is an incentive to do so. Algor...
Jacob Jan-David Mol, Johan A. Pouwelse, Dick H. J....
— A method for the mitigation of the effect of narrowband interference (NBI) on the turbo decoder in OFDM systems is proposed. The presence of NBI leads to a contaminated Gaussia...
Making commitments, e.g., through promises and threats, enables a player to exploit the strengths of his own strategic position as well as the weaknesses of that of his opponents....