Bester and Strausz (2000) showed that the revelation principle of Bester and Strausz (2001) does not apply in a setting of many agents and no commitment. In their counterexample only one agent has private information. We show that if the parties can make ex ante transfers the revelation principle does extend to this setting. However, we show that it does not extend to a setting in which more th...

The article describes multi-function system testing based on fusion (or revelation) of clique-like structures. The following sets are considered: (i) subsystems (system parts or units/components/modules), (ii) system functions and a subset of system components for each system function, and (iii) function clusters (some groups of system functions which are used jointly). Test procedures (as unit...

Studying the interaction between preference and capacity manipulation in matching markets, we prove that acyclicity is a necessary and sufficient condition that guarantees the stability of a Nash equilibrium and the strategy-proofness of truthful capacity revelation under the hospital-optimal and intern-optimal stable rules. We then introduce generalized capacity manipulations games where hospi...

In most mechanism design settings, optimal general-purpose mechanisms are not known. Thus the automated design of mechanisms tailored to specific instances of a decision scenario is an important problem. Existing techniques for automated mechanism design (AMD) require the revelation of full utility information from agents, which can be very difficult in practice. In this work, we study the auto...

In recognition tests, items presented in unusual ways (e.g., degraded, revealed in stages, or presented as anagrams) are often judged to be old more than are intact items. This revelation effect has been observed only in episodic judgments about the occurrence or frequency of relatively recent events. The present work extends the boundary conditions of this effect. In three experiments, subject...

six causes of revelation have been related concerning āya 115 of sūrat al-baqara; i.e. the noble āya, ﴾to allah belong the east and the west: so whichever way you turn, there is the face of allah! allah is indeed all-bounteous, all-knowing.﴿ because of their relation through the shī‘a, two of these causes of revelation have attracted more attention of the imāmī jurisprudents. these two traditio...

Kudüs, kadim tarihi ve kendisine atfedilen kutsiyeti ile bugün her iki kişiden biri için kutsal mekân olarak kabul edilmektedir. Tarih boyunca bu şehir hem dini alanda de siyasi çatışmaların merkezinde bulunmuştur. Haiz olduğu önemden dolayı şehir, birçok farklı medeniyet, kültür millete ev sahipliği yapmıştır. Yahudilik Hristiyanlık İslam dinlerinde merkezi bir kutsiyet değeri taşıyan kent, üç...

This paper shows that the efficiency of relational contracting can be increased by reducing the public information through a novel intertemporalgarbling process of signals. A distinctive and essential feature of our intertemporalgarbling process is that past outputs have enduring effects on future signals. This process reduces the principal’s maximal reneging temptation by linking together the ...

We analyze untrustworthy interactions, that is, interactions in which a party may fail to carry out its obligations. Such interactions pose agents with the problem of how to estimate the trustworthiness of the other party. The efficiency of untrustworthy interactions critically depends on the amount and the nature of information about untrustworthy agents. We propose a solution to the problem o...

This paper presents an initial study of the relevant issues on the development of an automated mediation agent. The work is conducted within the ‘curious negotiator’ framework [1]. The paper demonstrates that mediation is a knowledge intensive process that integrates information revelation and analogical reasoning. The introduced formalism is used to demonstrate how via revealing the appropriat...