Identifying an optimal game strategy often involves estimating the strategies of other agents, which in turn depends on hidden parts of the game state. In this paper we focus on the win-lose game The Settlers of Catan (or Settlers), in which players negotiate over limited resources. More precisely, our goal is to map each player’s utterances in such negotiations to a model of which resources th...

Cloud storage enables users to access their data anywhere and at any time. It achieves the dream of getting computing, storage and communication resources as easy as to get water and electricity. All resources can be gotten in a plug-and-play way. It has the advantages of high scalability, ease-of-use, cost-effectiveness and simplifying infrastructure planning etc. However, the emerging use of ...

This paper addresses the concept of koinōnia discussed in Plato’s Republic. It focuses on specific ways term enters discussion about social organisation within guardian class, such as proposal for abolishing a nuclear family favour community wives and children. The aims to reveal psychological basis connecting socio-economic proposals his principal ethical political concerns. examines (i) argum...

If a man has a matchmaking network, will this increase his chance of marrying? If so, do the different types of network ties play different roles? Using survey data from X County in Anhui Province (N = 412), we analyze the determinants of first marriage probability for 18 to 50year-old rural Chinese men in terms of their social networks. Age at first marriage for rural Chinese men is concentrat...

Abstract Talent management (TM) is referred as a young and developing field it claimed to be require more contribution from the different industry country perspectives. Because of highly dynamic competitive nature container shipping industry, possession valuable unique human capital assets evaluated substantial necessity achieve business objectives sustained advantage by companies. Accordingly,...