Non-cooperative games are mathematical models of interactive strategic decision situations. In contrast to cooperative models, they build on the assumption that all possibilities for commitment and contract have been incorporated in the rules of the game. This contribution describes the main models (games in normal form, and games in extensive form), as well as the main concepts that have been ...

Conference reports: Second Gravitational Wave Phenomenology Workshop, by Neil Cornish . . . 14 Apples with apples II, by Miguel Alcubierre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 3 Conferences for 30 years of Gravity at UNAM, by Alejandro Corichi . . . 17 Building bridges, by Mario Dı́az . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Strings Meet Loops, by Martin Bojowald . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Approved as to style and content by: (Member) tment) Date iii Acknowledgement I wish to express my appreciation to my advisor, Dr. John W. Moore, for his encouragement and assistance, not only in the completion of this study but for his guidance throughout my graduate career. I also wish to thank the members of my committee, Professors J. J. B. Ayres and Neil Carlson for their helpful contribut...

Planning with Unknown Object Quantities and Properties Siddharth Srivastava and Neil Immerman and Shlomo Zilberstein Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003

Comparative economists have gradually concluded that success or failure in transition to democratic capitalism is a matter of institutions, not geography or leadership or outside assistance. However, why do some countries exhibit pro-growth institutions, with little corruption or rent seeking? And how can we explain the relative successes of very different forms of capitalism, such as the USA, ...

social differentiation is among the important concepts in sociology. the importance of the concept may be understood from its frequent recurrence in the works of the early sociologists including spencer, durkheim, weber and marx, as well as in the works of later sociologists such as parsons, smelser and luhmann. the idea of segregation is mainly discussed as a key concept in the theories of soc...

This research attempts to examine the role of Socio-economic factors  in establishing collective behavior of the youth in Boshehr based on Smelser' s structural theory. Smelser in one of the most well-known sociologists in collective behavior studies who explains these behaviors in the framework of social structuralism. This research conducted on survey method. 383 persons selected through syst...