Several conceptual points are made concerning communication in games of asymmetric information. Equilibrium refinements of Sender-Receiver cheap-talk games that are based on the concept of a putative equilibrium, and which rely on the presence of a rich language with literal meanings, are discussed. Three nested criteria are proposed: strong announcement-proofness, announcement-proofness, and w...

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a well-established tool for making sense of high dimensional data by reducing it to a smaller dimension. Its extension to sparse principal component analysisprincipal component analysis!sparce, which provides a sparse low-dimensional representation of the data, has attracted alot of interest in recent years (see, e.g., [1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]). In many app...

Reasoning about concurrent programs can be very difficult due to the possibility of interference. The fundamental insight of Rely-Guarantee thinking is that developing concurrent designs can only be made compositional if the development method offers ways to record and reason about the interference that is inherent in concurrency. The original presentation of rely-guarantee rules used keywords ...