A. Introduction to Games with Incomplete Information 1. Imperfect Information vs. Incomplete Information 2. Bayesian Games 3. The Revelation Principle B. Bilateral Trading Mechanisms 1. War of Attrition 2. Simultaneous Offers 3. The Public Choice Problem 4. A General Model 5. Efficiency in Games with Incomplete Information 6. Durability C. Multilateral Trading Mechanisms 1. Dissolving a Partner...

Waking up can be very troubling. In many cases, being awoken by the alarm clock during a period of deep sleep causes a person to not feel fully rested after waking up. This paper describes how an adaptive alarm clock was developed addressing this problem. The alarm clock predetermines in what state the sleeper will be at the instant of supposed alarm-firing, and adjusts that instant to a more f...

In trials witnesses often slant their testimony to advance their interests. To obtain truthful testimony, courts rely on perjury rules. We show that truth-revelation is possible and that perjury rules are not truth-revealing. If the judge uses a truth-revealing mechanism, he will get little testimony because the defendant will not present a witness with unfavorable news; however, testimony is o...

Classic direct mechanisms require full utility revelation from agents, which can be very difficult in practical multi-attribute settings. In this work, we study partial revelation within the framework of one-shot mechanisms. Each agent’s type space is partitioned into a finite set of partial types and agents (should) report the partial type within which their full type lies. A classic result im...

Thought disorder is a fundamental symptom of schizophrenia, observable as irregularities in speech. It has been associated with functional and structural abnormalities in brain regions involved in language processing, including left temporal regions, during language production tasks. We were interested in the neural correlates of thought disorder during receptive language processing, as this fu...

A fault in a complex technical system usually leads to a large number of consequential faults. Ina modern control room, most variables are measured and monitored by alarms. Therefore, a non-trivialfault usually leads to a large amount of triggered alarms, a so-called alarm cascade. Alarm cascades causeinformation overload and renders the alarm system useless during incidents. GoalAr...

the prevalence of atrial fibrillation (af) is 1-2 % in the general population, and the risk of embolic stroke in af patients is 4-5 times higher than that in the general population. af-related strokes are often severe, and the rate of permanent disability is much higher among individuals who have af-related strokes than in those who have strokes unrelated to af. in patients with af, more than 9...