This paper develops a simple sequential multiple-horizon non-causation test strategy for trivariate VAR models (with one auxiliary variable). We apply the test strategy to a rolling window study of money supply and real income, with the price of oil, the unemployment rate and the spread between the Treasury bill and commercial paper rates as auxiliary processes. Ours is the first study to contr...

banugoshasb-nameh is a national epic poem written in imitation of ferdowsi's shahnameh about banugoshasb's life and courage, daughter of rostam. the poem, the only epic in persian literature is the central story of a heroic woman. most researchers, who have studied this poem, have focused on the presence of banugushasb in the context of epic and her heroism. they sometimes related her...

The Contract Net Protocol is one of the most prominent concepts for negotiation in Multi-Agent Systems. However , there are some unspecified features like the task decomposition procedures used by managers. Also the bottleneck induced by the central role of the managers will be identified as a weak point of the method. This is especially true if the amount of tasks in the system and the society...