Cloud manufacturing is a new paradigm which has been under study since 2010 and a vast body of research has been conducted on this topic. Among them, service composition problems are of utmost importance. However, most studies only focused on private clouds meaning the objective function is defined for just one component of the supply chain. This paper attempts to consider service composition p...

Optimality Theory catches on in linguistics, rst in phonology, then in syntax , and recently also at the semantics / pragmatics interface. In this paper we point at some parallels between principles employed in optimality the-oretic interpretation, and notions from the well-established eld of Game Theory. Optimality theoretic interpretation can be deened as what we call an \interpretation game"...

This paper addresses a ‘‘game’’ between an inspection agency and multiple inspectees that are subject to random inspections by that agency. We provide explicit (easily computable) expressions for all possible Nash equilibria and verify that none is left out. In particular, our results characterize situations when there exists a unique Nash equilibrium. We also explore special features of the Na...

Monocyte-derived macrophages are among the first cells to accumulate in atherosclerotic lesions. Primarily, they appear to scavenge lipids and lipoproteins from fatty streaks, but their long-term presence and accumulation of cholesterol and cholesteryl esters is the hallmark of atherosclerosis. Atherogenesis begins by a perturbation in the endothelium. Subsequently, blood monocytes and later T ...

ABSTRACT In this paper the entropy function of the matrix game has been considered as one of the objectives and formulate a new game model, named Entropy Matrix Goal Game Model. Non-linear programming model for each player has been established. The equilibrium condition on matrix game is based on expected pay-off, so this equilibrium condition might be violated by mixed strategies when replicat...

Bi-cooperative games have been introduced by Bilbao et al as a generalization of TU cooperative games, where each player can participate positively to the game, negatively, or do not participate. In this paper, we propose a definition of a share of the wealth obtained by some players after they decided on their participation to the game. It turns out that the cost allocation rule does not look ...

Many techniques developed in simulations of physical models have been adopted in studies of game theory by researchers including physicists and mathematicians. In this work, we show that a seemly non-essential mechanism – what we refer to as a “payoff scheme” have a large impact on strategic outcomes of some games. Payoff scheme refers to here that how each player’s payoff is calculated in each...

The seesaw enhancement of the bi-large mixings are discussed for the two zero textures of the neutrino mass matrix. There are no large mixings in both Dirac neutrino mass matrix mD and right-handed Majorana neutrino mass matrix MR, however, the bi-large mixing is realized via the seesaw mechanism. We present twelve sets of mD and MR for the seesaw enhancement and discuss the related phenomena, ...

We establish structural controllability results for matrix pairs [A, B] where .4=A0+Z piAi, B=B,+Z piB', with tho At, Bi fixed, and the pr free scalar parameters. Tho results characterize structural controllability in several wsys, via, tests involving the cllecking of the rank or the evaluation of the determinant of various constant matrices formed from t,he At, Bi. A number of the result,^ us...

In this article, two-person zero-sum games are investigated in the fuzzy environment. Several models constructed by Maeda in the symmetrical fuzzy environment are extended to the models in the asymmetric fuzzy environment. The existence of equilibrium strategies for these extended models is proposed in the asymmetric fuzzy environment. However, in some cases, Nash equilibrium strategies may not...