We study a model of decentralised bilateral interactions in a small market where one of the sellers has private information about her value. There are two identical buyers and another seller, apart from the informed one, whose valuation is commonly known to be in between the two possible valuations of the informed seller. This represents an attempt to model alternatives to current partners on b...

Two fMRI experiments were conducted using song to investigate the domain specificity of linguistic and musical processing. In Experiment 1, participants listened to pairs of spoken words, "vocalise" (i.e., singing without words), and sung words while performing a same-different task. Results revealed bilateral involvement of middle and superior temporal gyri and inferior and middle frontal gyri...

We investigate the scope for cooperation within a community engaged in repeated reciprocal interactions. Players seek the help of others and approach them sequentially according to some fixed order, that is, a ranking profile. We study the ranking profiles that correspond to the social structures that are most effective in sustaining cooperation in equilibrium, that is, social structures that s...

We propose a multi-agent based framework for supporting adaptive bilateral automated negotiation during buyer-seller agent interactions. In this work, these interactions are viewed as a cooperative game (from the idea of two-person game theory, nonzerosum game), where the players try to reach an agreement about a certain negotiation object that is offered by one player to another. The final agr...

Because an individual’s views are inevitable shaped by his/her past experience, it may be helpful to summarize my background briefly so that members of this audience may interpret my comments in an appropriate manner. Although I have held a full-time appointment in an engineering department at a Canadian university for the past 31 years, I have also enjoyed full-time positions in industry and c...

Gemination is an anomaly caused by a single tooth germ that attempted to divide during its development resulting in a bifid crown. They are found more frequently in the primary than in the permanent dentition unilaterally, but bilateral gemination is very rare. It is caused by complex interactions among a variety of genetic and environmental factors. This developmental anomaly may cause clinica...

Choice selection processes are a family of bilateral games of incomplete information in which a computer agent generates advice for a human user while considering the effect of the advice on the user’s behavior in future interactions. The human and the agent may share certain goals, but are essentially self-interested. This paper extends selection processes to settings in which the actions avai...

Difficulty with social interactions is a hallmark characteristic of autism spectrum disorders. While many studies have investigated the neural mechanisms underlying atypical social cognition, the methods used have rarely involved social interaction, relying instead on offline reasoning about a character. In the current study, we examined whether and which brain systems are sensitive to online s...