Conditional Objectives of Conspiracies

Covering Fairness against Conspiracies

The paper takes advantage and develops the fundamental Best’s ideas about fairness hierarchy and conspiracies in concurrent systems. Near to the start we characterize liveness with the notion of ∞-fairness. Next we show that the conspiracy-freeness problem is decidable for elementary nets and undecidable for place/transition nets. The main aim of the paper was to put places into work against co...

Black Hole Final State Conspiracies

The principle that unitarity must be preserved in all processes, no matter how exotic, has led to deep insights into boundary conditions in cosmology and black hole theory. In the case of black hole evaporation, Horowitz and Maldacena were led to propose that unitarity preservation can be understood in terms of a restriction imposed on the wave function at the singularity. Gottesman and Preskil...

On Conspiracies and Hyperfairness in Distributed Computing

Conspiracies and Secret Discounts in Laboratory Markets

This paper uses laboratory methods to evaluate whether price-fixing conspiracies break down in the presence of opportunities to offer secret discounts. The primary treatment difference is whether or not buyer-specific discounts from the posted list price are permitted. In standard posted-offer markets, conspiring sellers are able to find and maintain near-monopoly prices. But when the possibili...

Conspiracies and Secret Discounts: Initial Laboratory Results

Laboratory methods are used to evaluate factors that affect the success of price-fixing conspiracies. In standard posted-offer markets with no discounts, sellers are able to approach joint-profit-maximizing prices when they are allowed to discuss their decisions in advance. But such discussions are not effective when sellers are allowed to offer secret discounts from their posted prices; transa...