In multiagent systems, social choice functions can help aggregate the distinct preferences that agents have over alternatives, enabling them to settle on a single choice. Despite the basic manipulability of all reasonable voting systems, it would still be desirable to find ways to reach a stable result, i.e., a situation where no agent would wish to change its vote. One possibility is an iterat...

In multiagent systems, social choice functions can help aggregate the distinct preferences that agents have over alternatives, enabling them to settle on a single choice. Despite the basic manipulability of all reasonable voting systems, it would still be desirable to find ways to reach plausible outcomes, which are stable states, i.e., a situation where no agent would wish to change its vote. ...

Coffee seeds take a long time to germinate, as the tough seed coat can cause dormancy. This is because water absorption and gas exchange are disturbed mechanical barrier. Breaking of dormancy maximize germination needs be done before sowing seeds. The aim this study was obtain an appropriate effective soaking agent for breaking Kerinci arabica coffee research conducted using Randomized Block De...

Linguistic cues may be considered a potent tool for focusing attention on causes or effects. In this paper, we explore how different cues affect causal assignments in German and Tongan. From a larger screening study, two parts are reported here: Part 1 dealt with syntactic variations, including word order (agent vs. patient in first/subject position) and case marking (e.g., as ergative vs. non-...

Breaking waves have ability to transport large quantities of sediment and significant impact on coastal structures morphology. Hence, modeling of wave breaking is an important subject in coastal and marine engineering. In this research, the periodic wave breaking process on a plane slope is studied experimentally and numerically. Laboratory experiments were conducted to record water surface ele...

Wireless technologies are rapidly increasing and users are demanding more and more possibility to change their position with respect to the internet without breaking the signal. These services can be achieved by using Mobile IP or NEMO. In mobile IP, HA (Home Agent) and FA (Foreign Agent) concepts is used. HA is responsible for data delivery and due to this, infrastructure load is very high at ...

It is suggested to consider long term trends of financial markets as a growth phenomenon. The question that is asked is what conditions are needed for a long term sustainable growth or contraction in a financial market? The paper discuss the role of traditional market players of long only mutual funds versus hedge funds which take both short and long positions. It will be argued that financial ...

We examine a weighted-network multiagent model with preferential selection such that agents choose partners with probability p(w), where w is the number of their past selections. When p(w) increases sublinearly with the number of past selections [p(w)∼w(α),α<1], agents develop a uniform preference for all other agents. At α=1, this state loses stability and more complex structures form. For a s...

to study the effects of chilling on dormancy breaking and the increased germination characteristics of nepeta (germination percent and speed, seedling length, vigor index, wet and dry weight), a factorial experiment in a completely randomized design with 4 replications was implemented in a laboratory in 2014. factor a was the chilling treatment in three levels (control, one-month and two-month ...

Nano-TiO2 sol and finishing agent was prepared by sol-gel method, during which tetrabutyl titanate was used as precursor and ethanol was used as solvent. The agent was penetrated into polyester fabric through a padding method, the anti-ultraviolet performance of the fabric was analyzed and the external morphology was carefully studied afterward. The results showed that indicated that the Nano-T...