In this paper, we consider the validity of strong maximum principle for weakly coupled, degenerate and cooperative elliptic systems in a bounded domain. particular, are interested viscosity solutions with fully nonlinear degenerated principal symbol. Applying method solutions, introduced by Crandall, Ishii Lions 1992, prove interior boundary semi-continuous sub- super-solutions such systems. Fo...

We develop a model of commodity tax competition with monopolistically competitive internationally mobile firms, transport costs, and asymmetric country sizes. We investigate the impacts of non-cooperative tax setting, as well as of tax harmonization and changes in the tax principle, in both the short and the long run. The origin principle, when compared to the destination principle, is shown to...

Pragmatic strategies are often utilized to create different conversational implicature in the dialogue of TV series. From perspective Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle, paper aims analyze created by violating maxims first season American series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. qualitative approach is mainly used as methodology this paper. Analyses reveals major findings: (1) verbal humor...

We consider the problem of efficiently sharing water from a river among a group of satiable agents. Since each agent’s benefit function exhibits a satiation point, the environment can be described as a cooperative game with externalities. We show that the downstream incremental distribution is the unique distribution which both is fair according to the “aspiration welfare” principle and satisfi...

To maximize the profit of networks, heterogeneous networks form a whole, which may either compete or cooperate with each other. This paper firstly introduces a healthcare monitor network architecture to build the competitive and cooperative mechanism of heterogeneous networks containing three networks. This paper considers the natural growth rate of the network with competitive and cooperative ...

This paper investigates how a population of neuron-like agents can use metabolic cost to communicate the importance of their actions. Although decision-making by individual agents has been extensively studied, questions regarding how agents should behave to cooperate effectively remain largely unaddressed. Under assumptions that capture a few basic features of cortical neurons, we show that con...

Communication is a goal–directed activity. In general, it can serve multiple purposes, e.g. information transfer, expression of emotions, making promises,... According to H.P. Grice (1989), if communication is to be successful, the specific purpose of the communicative act has to be known and accepted by all participants. Hence, for a participant to be cooperative (i.e. willing to make the comm...

Abstract: For the coordination of multi-agent systems with bandwidth limited digital channels, if there are unmeasurable states in agents’ dynamics, then to get the estimates of other agents’ states by properly designed encoding-decoding scheme is the objective of the cooperative communication and is also the foundation of cooperative control design. In this paper, the concept of cooperatabilit...

Chagnon’s analysis of a well-known axe fight in the Yanomamö village of Mishimishiböwei-teri (Chagnon and Bugos 1979) is among the earliest empirical tests of kin selection theory for explaining cooperation in humans. Kin selection theory describes how cooperation can be organized around genetic kinship and is a fundamental tool for understanding cooperation within family groups. Previous analy...