Reinterpreting King Solomon's problem: Malice and mechanism design

A Cooperation Enforcement, Malice Detection and Energy Efficient Mechanism for Mobile Ad hoc Networks

Mobile ad hoc networks communicate in a self-organized way without depending on any fixed infrastructure. The issue of selfish nodes, which may refuse to cooperate, is a great challenge in such networks and may cause network throughput to drastically reduce. Energy-based selfishness is a category of selfishness in which a selfish node shows nondeterministic and probabilistic selfishness behavio...

The Ki king Horse Pass Problem

Malice/gross negligence.

I n health care liability claims, claimants often plead for recovery of exemplary/punitive damages from the defendant health care providers. These allegations often cause anxiety for the defendants, because invariably their professional liability insurance carrier sends them a letter stating that such claims—as well as any damages that may be awarded to compensate the claimant for such claims—a...

Reinterpreting Importance-weighted Autoencoders

The standard interpretation of importance-weighted autoencoders is that they maximize a tighter lower bound on the marginal likelihood than the standard evidence lower bound. We give an alternate interpretation of this procedure: that it optimizes the standard variational lower bound, but using a more complex distribution. We formally derive this result, present a tighter lower bound, and visua...

Reinterpreting the Kernel

The reduced game relevant for the consistency of the prekernel is used to reinterpret this solution concept in a way that makes it independent of interpersonal utility comparisons. Based on this reinterpretation, a non-cooperative model is presented that yields in stationary equilibria the prekernel (kernel) for the class of monotonic transferable utility games. Next, we apply the same non-coop...