[W]hen a number of persons engage in a just, mutually advantageous, cooperative venture according to rules and thus restrain their liberty in ways necessary to yield advantages for all, those who have submitted to these restrictions have a right to similar acquiescence on the part of those who have benefited from their submission. The principle of fairness has encountered vigorous objections. S...

The purpose of this set of notes is to present the connection between the classical maximum principle with the principal eigenvalue of the elliptic operator. We will start with the maximum principle for single equations and proceed to the case of cooperative (or weakly-coupled) systems. By adopting an idea due to G. Sweers, we give a characterization of the principal eigenvalue for a cooperativ...

This content-analytic study examines the influence of (non) observance maxims in production evasive responses Malaysian Parliamentary Question Time. The analysis was based on theories Cooperative Principle (Grice, 1975) and Clayman’s Framework Resistance (2001; 2012). Two strategies were found to produce namely, violating opting out. Ministers deputy ministers frequently shift tasks required by...

Naturally, humans seek physical and psychological joy. Romance, for instance, is one of the means. People are making quick use of the Internet technology to facilitate their seeking of romantic and quasiromantic experience via “virtual reality.” In this paper we concern ourselves mainly with meaning generation and interpretation in the virtual world. With analysis of a reported case of online d...

Even though capacity can be achieved in parallel multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) broadcast channels by coding separately on each carrier, joint coding across carriers (socalled carrier-cooperative transmission) can lead to performance gains in MIMO broadcast channels with a restriction to linear transceivers. In principle, carrier-cooperative transmission can be optimized in an equivalent...

The Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) discipline examines the possibilities and effects of technological support for humans involved in collaborative group communication and work processes. Organizations are built on the principle that groups of people can carry out tasks which are not feasible individually. For many of them, well-structured and ill-structured procedures coexist in wor...

To reuse one or several existing systems in order to develop a complex system is a common practice in software engineering. This approach can be justified by the fact that it is often difficult for a single Information System (IS) to accomplish all the requested tasks. So, one solution is to combine many different ISs and make them collaborate in order to realize these tasks. We previously prop...

The design, dynamic modelling, and workspace are presented in this paper concerning cooperative cable parallel manipulators for multiple mobile cranes (CPMMCs). The CPMMCs can handle complex tasks that are more difficult or even impossible for a single mobile crane. Kinematics and dynamics of the CPMMCs are studied on the basis of geometric methodology and dʹAlembert’s pr...

This paper motivates the application of Software defined radio as the enabling technology in the implementation of future wireless terminals for 4G. It outlines the advantages and disadvantages of SDR in terms of Flexibility and reconfigurability versus computational complexity. To mitigate the expected increase in complexity leading to a decrease in energy efficiency, cooperative wireless netw...