The paper extends the concepts of dominance and p-dissipativity to the non-smooth family of linear complementarity systems. Dominance generalizes incremental stability whereas p-dissipativity generalizes incremental passivity. The generalization aims at an interconnection theory for the design and analysis of switching and oscillatory systems. The approach is illustrated by a detailed study of ...

In an experimental 2x2 coordination game with two strict equilibria we observe that, in contrast to equilibrium selection theory (Harsanyi and Selten 1988), only half of the subjects choose the strategy that relates to the payoffand risk-dominant equilibrium. We propose modified risk dominance as an explanation for the observed deviations from payoff and risk dominance. JEL classification: C72,...

R. A. FISHER (1930) developed a phylogenetic and statistical theory of dominance of wild type over mutants involving a selection of modifiers that shift the phenotype of the heterozygous mutant toward the wild type. The wild type has a selective advantage which also is conferred upon heterozygotes. FISHER (1 934,1935,1938) noted that many common mutations in the domestic fowl were dominant in c...

This paper proposes a theory for establishing dominance relations between universities on the basis of their scientific production and the number of citations their publications received in given time window. We apply this theory to the ranking of French Universities.

Theoretical models to date have fallen short of accounting for the alarming worldwide rates of HIV infection in women through heterosexual contact. In this article, social dominance theory and the four bases of gendered power—force, resource control, social obligations, and consensual ideologies—are used to organize and explain international research findings on women’s risk of contracting HIV ...

This thesis develops the theory of dominance constraints, a family of logical languages that describe trees, and applies them as a formalism for the underspecified description of scope ambiguities in natural language. In underspecification approaches to ambiguity resolution, all readings of a sentence at once are represented in an underspecified description, and are only enumerated by need. On ...

This letter suggests, and describes through an example, a dominance approach to rational expectations as an alternative to the perfect foresight fixed point for closing a model. Dominance criteria have a long history in game theory [see, e.g., Harsanyi (1977, p. 107)]. It also has long been recognized that dominance is not a universally applicable model of behavior [see e.g., Harsanyi (1977, p....

In this paper, we consider finite normal form games satisfying transference of decisionmaker indifference. We show that any set of strategies surviving k rounds of elimination of some weakly dominated strategies can be reduced to a set of strategies equivalent to the set of strategies surviving k rounds of elimination of all weakly dominated strategies in every round by (at most k) further roun...

OMINANCE deviation in continuously varying characters is a matter which D is of great concern to both animal and plant breeders, for dominance of the favored gene is an aid to selection when the gene frequency is low, but a hindrance when the gene frequency is high (LUSH 1947). At present, theory of the consequences in quantitative traits is further advanced than is experimental observation. Fo...

Dominance-based Rough Set Approach (DRSA) has been proposed to deal with multi-criteria classification problems, where data may be inconsistent with respect to the dominance principle. However, in real-life datasets, in the presence of noise, the notions of lower and upper approximations handling inconsistencies were found to be excessively restrictive which led to the proposal of the variable ...