The Werewolf game is a conversation-based party games. Each player in the game belongs to werewolves or villagers. Since secret conversations called “Whispers” are allowed for werewolves only, effective use of whispers must be a key issue for werewolves to proceed advantageously to win the game. In this work-in-progress paper, for a preliminary assessment of the whispers’ effect, we extract rel...

We propose a model of belief and intention change over the course of a dialogue, in the case where the decisions taken during the dialogue affect the possibly conflicting goals of the agents involved. We use Situation Calculus to model the evolution of the world and an observation model to analyze the evolution of intentions and beliefs. In our formalization, utterances, that only change the be...

Islamic banks face restrictions in refinancing due to the guidelines of the Shari ́ah prohibiting financial contracts and transactions based on interest, gambling and speculation as same as due to the lack of liquidity sources such as an interbank market, a lender of last resort or an asset market. This is the first study with empirical cross-country results focusing on liquidity transformation ...

*Corresponding author: Frank A. Chervenak, New York Presbyterian Hospital, 525 East 68th Street, J-130, New York, NY 10065, USA, Tel.: +1 212 746 3184, Fax: +1 212 746 8960, E-mail: [email protected]; and Weill Cornell Medical College, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York, NY, USA Shari E. Gelber and Debra Taubel: Weill Cornell Medical College, Department of Obstetrics and Gy...

We derive rigorously the leading order term in the asymptotic expansion of the scattering amplitude of a collection of a finite number of dielectric inhomogeneities of small diameter. We then apply this formula for the purpose of identifying the location and certain properties of the shapes of the inhomogeneities using measurements of the scattering amplitude at a fixed frequency. Joint work wi...