Multiple-Bus architectures for multiprocessors systems are preferred by manufacturers for implementation as they are providing higher bandwidth and more reliability than single bus architectures. The key notion in such a multiple-bus system is the bus arbitration strategy which resolves request con icts and allocates buses to requesting devices. Indeed, fast and fair bus arbitration gives highe...

This comment, offered by one well-positioned respondent to the study on which this article is based, reflects the widespread belief that alternative dispute resolution methods, particularly mandatory binding arbitration agreements, have become the rule in health care delivery. This apparent trend has spurred vigorous debate about the merits of using such agreements. Our study is an effort to as...

This paper proposes an innovative Pipeline-based Maximalsized Matching scheduling approach, called PMM, for input-buffered switches. It dramatically relaxes the timing constraint for arbitration with a maximal matching scheme. In the PMM approach, arbitration operates in a pipelined manner, where K subschedulers are used. Each subscheduler is allowed to take more than one time slot for its matc...

AND DANIEL ADLER I n May 2016, after conducting a years-long study on the use of arbitration agreements in consumer finance, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced its plan to limit the use of class action waivers in pre-dispute arbitration agreements. The CFPB’s proposal, if enacted into law unchanged, could face significant legal challenges. At bottom, the proposal rests on the fl...

In this paper we suggest an action selection and behavior arbitration scheme for autonomous robots, called AASBA (for "affective action selection and behavior arbitration"), which uses affective states to select the robot's behavior at any given time and pass control from the currently active behavior to the newly selected one. AASBA views action selection and behavior arbitration as an integra...

-The SOC design paradigm relies on well-defined interfaces and reuse of intellectual property (IP). Because more and more IPs are integrated into the design platform, the amount of communication between the IPs is on the increase and becomes the source of the performance bottlenecks. The arbiter plays a very important role to manage the resource sharing on the SOC platform. This paper presents ...

In this paper, we study a two-party pie-sharing problem in the presence of asymmetries in the stakeholders' private endowments. Both the two stakeholders and third-party arbitrators may influence the outcome. We consider Nash-demand negotiations, where the two stakeholders place demands and share the pie accordingly if demands are compatible, and elicit dictatorial allocations from the stakehol...

BACKGROUND There are two competing methods for improving the accuracy of a radiologist interpreting screening mammograms: computer aids (CAD) or independent second reading. METHODS Bibliographic databases were searched for clinical trials. Meta-analyses estimated impacts of CAD and double reading on odds ratios for cancer detection and recall rates. Sub-group analyses considered double readin...

Objective of the research: to identify means protection collective interests, suitable for international commercial arbitration, based on models used in Russian procedural law and abroad. The research both general scientific (analysis, synthesis, comparison, descriptive, formal-logical) special legal (formal-legal, comparative-legal, historical-legal, method modeling) methods. work has resulted...