Several schemes have been proposed that incorporate an auxiliary buffer to improve the performance of a given size cache. Victim caching, aims to reduce the impact of conflict misses in direct-mapped caches. Victim offers competitive performance benefits, but requires a costly data path for swaps and saves between the main cache and the added buffer. Several multilateral schemes (e.g. NTS, PCS)...

We discuss the theoretical design of algorithms for solving distributional conflicts within groups. We consider an algorithm to be procedural if the implementation of the outcome requires the participation of the players, or if it can even be conducted by the players themselves without computational assistance. We compare two procedures for multilateral problems of fair division; both establish...

The present deregulated electricity industry has evolved into a distributed and competitive industry in which market forces drive the price of electricity and reduce the net cost of electricity. However the competitions in these markets require identification of the use of transmission networks, mainly the participation of utilities in losses caused in the transmission lines. This is because th...

I use the nuclear proliferation regime to show that dyadic diplomacy is not necessarily incompatible with the building of a multilateral regime; bilateralism is not the opposite of multilateralism, but an efficient component thereof+ Although this point will not be new to most students of institutions, no general rationale has so far been offered on the complementarity of bilateral and multilat...

When environmental externalities are international-i .. e. transfrontier-they most often are multilateral and embody public good characteristics. Improving upon inefficient laissez-faire equilibria requires voluntary cooperation for which the game-theoretic core concept provides optimal outcomes that have interesting properties against free riding. To define the core, however, the characteristi...

BACKGROUND This article proposes an approach to comparing and assessing the adaptive capacity of multilateral health agencies in meeting country and individual healthcare needs. Most studies comparing multilateral health agencies have failed to clearly propose a method for conducting agency comparisons. METHODS This study conducted a qualitative case study methodological approach, such that s...

many studies have been conducted on the characteristics of hydraulic jumps over horizontal basins. on sloping basins, however, few such studies have been performed so that the issue requires more investigation. a significant number of studies has also been conducted on basins with positive slopes but comparatively few have been carried out on basins with negative slopes. this study was carried ...

• The crisis has contributed to a slowdown in global trade volumes, with trade virtually stagnant in the twelve months to July 2013. In this context, fruitful negotiations in the World Trade Organisation’s 9th Ministerial Conference in Bali are crucial to sustain the institution’s credibility and prove that multilateral negotiations can still deliver success. • WTO trade talks are the only ongo...

The Disease Control Priorities (DCP) publications have pioneered new ways of thinking about investing in health. We agree with Norheim, that a useful first step to advance efforts to translate DCP’s global evidence into local health priorities, is to develop a clear Theory of Change (ToC). However, a ToC that aims to define how global evidence (DCP and others) can be used to inform national pol...