Only a few studies have analysed staggering and synchronisation in pricing behaviour of multi-product firms. These studies used low-frequency data in an environment of high rates of inflation. This paper investigates staggering and synchronisation of weekly prices for ten food products in 131 grocery stores in Germany over the period from May 1995 to December 2000 (296 weeks). Different forms o...

 Synchronisation Synchronisation is referred in Physics as a phenomenon occurring when two or many components of a complex system adjust a given property of their motion to a common behaviour, due to coupling or forcing. Our system addresses the synchronisation of affective behaviour in terms of the phase synchronisation of the time-series of the emotional features describing the emotional beh...

O -line clock synchronisation algorithms, in which synchronisation is performed by adjusting a collection of recorded timestamps, is suitable for use with many monitors for distributed systems. O -line synchronisation can often achieve very good synchronisation without the need for extra messages. The work described here builds on earlier work in this area [4] by introducing new synchronisation...

This paper introduces a preliminary study of synchronisation between packet loss events across concurrent TCP flows. Loss synchronisation is explored over four routing paths – one inside Australia and three international paths (Australia to Asia, Europe and North America respectively). We confirm that loss synchronisation does exist but the level varies from path to path. We outline further wor...

Markovian Process Algebras approximate their model of synchronisation events in order to preserve their Markovian nature. This paper investigates synchronisation models in a stochastic context and focuses on how the Markovian approximation of synchronisation a ects the accuracy of the performance model. TIPP and PEPA are used as speci c cases throughout, and their di erent methods of synchronis...

Neural synchronisation plays a critical role in information processing, storage and transmission. Characterising the pattern of synchronisation is therefore of great interest. It has recently been suggested that the brain displays broadband criticality based on two measures of synchronisation – phase locking intervals and global lability of synchronisation – showing power law statistics at the ...

In sensor networks, time synchronisation between sensor nodes is important because it affects not only the efficiency of information gathering but also the energy consumption. Since network sizes and sensor network environments change at varying rates, different time synchronisation strategies are required for different networks. The pulse-coupled oscillator model is selforganised synchronisati...

Markovian Process Algebras approximate their model of synchronisation events in order to preserve their Markovian nature. This paper investigates synchronisation models in a stochastic context and focuses on how the Markovian approximation of synchronisation a ects the accuracy of the performance model. TIPP and PEPA are used as speci c cases throughout, and their di erent methods of synchronis...

Synchronisation occurs when large numbers of individuals co-ordinate to act in unison. In this wide definition of the word, many different types of collective behaviour are examples of synchronisation. A highly aligned group of birds, fish or particles can be said to have synchronised their direction of movement. More commonly however, when we use the word synchronisation we are thinking about ...

Abstract We study a unique dataset with comprehensive coverage of daily prices in large multi-product retailers Israel. Retail stores synchronise price changes around occasional ‘peak’ days when they reprice 10% their products. To assess aggregate implications partial synchronisation, we develop new model which firms face economies scope adjustment, and synchronisation is endogenous. Synchronis...