asha, meaning order and honesty as apposed to anarchy and hypocrisy is the most significant principle of the anciant persian religion . there are some events and tales they are coloured by the asha principle . the manifestation of asha in such cases is the result of a certain religious experience known as the exegetic experience . the exegetic experience is in fact a religious interpretation an...

Price of anarchy quantifies the degradation of social welfare in games due to the lack of a centralized authority that can enforce the optimal outcome. At its antipodes, mechanism design studies how to ameliorate these effects by incentivizing socially desirable behavior (e.g., via tolls or taxes) and implementing the optimal state as equilibrium. In practice, the responsiveness to such measure...

This paper begins with a review and discussion of Gen and freedom of analysis as presented in the OT foundational works (Prince and Smolensky 1993; McCarthy and Prince 1993). The connection between freedom of analysis and our conception of the richness of the base is also considered. The core of the paper is a discussion of metrical phonology, exploring some specifics of the foot inventory whic...

Agent Based Modelling (ABM), a promising scientific toolset, has received criticism from some, in part, due to a claimed lack of scientific rigour, especially in the communication of its methods and results. To test the veracity of these claims, we conduct a structured analysis of over 900 scientific objects (figures, tables, or equations) that arose from 128 ABM papers published in the Journal...

We investigate the impact of heterogeneity in the amount of incoming traffic routed by dispatchers in a non-cooperative load balancing game. For a fixed amount of total incoming traffic, we give sufficient conditions on the cost function under which the worst-case social cost occurs when each dispatcher routes the same amount of traffic, that is, the game is symmetric. We then analyze the symme...