The relevance of the study is due to process structural reorganization entire global system international relations. It noted that, along with military power, economic, scientific, technical, and information spheres state’s activities are coming fore, stimulating their work in arena. emphasized that this circumstance determines complex interdependence main actors relations at present stage. arg...

In this paper it is shown that a well known procedure (GEKS) of transitivizing a bilateral system of productivity comparisons is implicitly a way of imposing a homothetic structure onto the data. The main implication of this result is that deviations between the bilateral and the multilateral (GEKS) indexes can be interpreted as a measure of local deviation from the homothetic assumption. This ...

Speaker recognition is usually accomplished by building a set of models from speech of a known speaker, training data, and subsequently using a pattern matching algorithm to score the speech from an unknown speaker, test data. In this paper we discard the notion of train and test data in speaker recognition and introduce the multilateral scoring technique. This technique comprises building spea...

For any multilateral matching problem with dichotomous preferences, in the sense that agents are indifferent between all acceptable teams, there exist some strategy proof, individually rational and efficient mechanisms. Moreover some random matching mechanisms simultaneously satisfy the three crucial desiderata of mechanism design: efficiency, fairness and strategyproofness, which typically con...

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We examine multilateral bargaining in vertical supply relationships which involve an upstream manufacturer who sells through two competing retailers to end consumers. In these relationships the negotiations are inter-dependent and a bargaining externality may arise across the retailers. In addition, the timing by which the manufacturer negotiates with the retailers becomes important. The manufa...