One of the key issues in mobile robot navigation is coping with uncertainty in a dynamic environment. One possible solutions lies in behaviors, but there is a problem with standard behavior arbitration techniques. To combat this problem, David Payton introduced a command arbitration net that minimizes the loss of information between behaviors. We have extended his approach using fuzzy logic. So...

Abstract: This paper describes the pros and cons of several generations of wireless multiple access protocols and describes a new protocol “Logarithmic Arbitration – Distributed Coordination Function” (LA-DCF) which uses “Binary Logarithmic Arbitration Method” (BLAM) optimization techniques to reduce delay and loss, and is designed particularly for integrated service environments. It simulates ...

On 8 June 2023, an arbitration conference took place at the Law Faculty of Comenius University Bratislava, entitled ICC Arbitration Uncovered: Key trends, tools and tactics.

All the discussion at the moment is about the failing support around Europe for the very English remedy of the anti-suit injunction. Europe is determined to get rid of the remedy, very much maligned and misunderstood, even if it means construing the exemption in the Brussels Regulation 44/2001 (Brussels Regulation) in unrecognisable fashion. Of course, the arbitration exemption was not inserted...

This report introduces a shared resource arbitration scheme“DPQ Dynamic Priority Queue”which provides bandwidth guarantees and low worst case latency to each master in an MPSoC. Being a non-trivial candidate for timing analysis, SDRAM has been chosen as a showcase, but the approach is valid for any shared resource arbitration. Due to its significant cost, data rate and physical size advantages,...

Combined input-crosspoint buffered (CICB) switches relax arbitration timing and provide high-performance switching for packet switches with high-speed ports. It has been shown that these switches, with one-cell crosspoint buffer and round-robin arbitration at input and output ports, provide 100% throughput under uniform traffic. However, under admissible traffic patterns with nonuniform distrib...

There is accumulating neural evidence to support the existence of two distinct systems for guiding action selection, a deliberative "model-based" and a reflexive "model-free" system. However, little is known about how the brain determines which of these systems controls behavior at one moment in time. We provide evidence for an arbitration mechanism that allocates the degree of control over beh...

Although motion compensated interpolation (MCI) improves the vertical resolution of de-interlaced frames effectively, it often introduces serious defects like feathering artifacts. In this paper, we propose an arbitration rule between MCI and intra-field interpolation for de-interlacing to avoid the motion compensation artifacts (MCAs) produced by erroneous MCI. In the proposed deinterlacing me...

We compare three common dispute resolution processes – negotiation, mediation, and arbitration – in the framework of Crawford and Sobel [V. Crawford, J. Sobel, Strategic information transmission, Econometrica 50 (6) (1982) 1431–1451]. Under negotiation, the two parties engage in (possibly arbitrarily long) face-to-face cheap talk. Under mediation, the parties communicate with a neutral third pa...

Speech recognition confidence-scores quantitatively represent correctness of decoded utterances in a [0,1] range. Confidences have primarily been used to filter out recognitions with scores below a threshold. They have also been used in other speech applications in e.g. arbitration, ROVER, and high-quality data selection for model training etc. Confidence-scores are computed from a rich set of ...