We investigate the properties of an abstract negotiation framework where agents autonomously negotiate over allocations of discrete resources. In this framework, reaching an optimal allocation potentially requires very complex multilateral deals. Therefore, we are interested in identifying classes of utility functions such that any negotiation conducted by means of deals involving only a single...

As more and more data become available, the task of accessing and exploiting the large number of distributed clinical data repositories becomes increasingly complex. Moreover, accessing to a certain data set in a federated data warehouse may have constrains, and multilateral agreements may solve it. Such agreements may be very complex to be solved manually. Current systems for clinical data sha...

Clean and affordable energy is crucial to achieve a sustainable future. Despite being controversial, hydropower remains the predominant low-cost reliable source of at global level, as it stabilizes provision electricity bears power peaks without losing efficiency. However, requires huge upfront investments patient functional capital. Under Paris Agreement, countries committed direct financial c...

INTRODUCTION Despite recent and robust economic growth across the Asia-Pacific region, the majority of low- and middle-income countries in the region remain dependent on some donor support for HIV programmes. We describe the availability of bilateral and multilateral official development assistance (ODA) for HIV programmes in the region. METHODS The donor countries considered in this analysis...

Gerald M. Steinberg is a professor in the Political Studies Department and Director of Arms Control Projects at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. His activities include participation in the track-two meetings of the Multilateral Working Group on Arms Control and Regional Security (ACRS) sponsored by the University of California, and in the M...

Security requirement of White-Box Cryptography (WBC) is that it should protect secret key from white-box security model permits an adversary who is able to entirely control execution of the cryptographic algorithm and its environment. It has already been demonstrated that most of the primitive is vulnerable to algebraic attacks in the white-box security perspective. In recently, a new Different...

One of the most robust phenomena in the experimental literature on multilateral bargaining is the failure of proposers to extract equilibrium rents. However, all previous experiments have overlooked the fact that outside the lab committee members are allowed to and do engage in sometimes intense communication processes prior to voting on a proposal. We conduct an experimental test of the Baron-...