The request 1. The comptroller has been requested to issue an opinion as to whether claims 1 to 8, 12 and 15 of EP0715672 (“the patent”) are valid in light of various pairs drawn from the following documents and technical knowledge:

allow decision makers to implement a mutual best response outcome. This paper uses the experimental method to examine the salience of payoff-dominance, security, and historical precedents in related average opinion games. The systematic and, hence, predictable behavior observed in the experiments

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Abstract: Large displays are increasingly being placed in public places to support community and social activities. However, a major problem that has been observed with this new form of public interaction is the resistance by the public to participate. A main reason is due to the prominence

Everyone has observed people invoking fair-ness arguments in defense of their opinions or actions, and it is not uncommon for such argu-ments to be wielded on both sides of an issue about which views conflict. For example, dur-ing a televised debate Representative Charles B. Rangel said, “I think

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A model where agents show discrete behavior regarding their actions, but have continuous opinions that are updated by interacting with other agents is presented. This new updating rule is applied to both the voter and Sznajd models for interaction between neighbors and its consequences

“Neuro-ophthalmology ” To the casual observer, the name suggests a field limited to the study of the nerves that see and move the eyes. In actuality, neuro- ophthalmology is a complex subspecialty that merges clinical expertise, fundamental science and applied technology from a variety of related

One of the most influential research programs in psychology is that of Tversky and Kahneman’s (1973, 1983) on heuristics and biases in decision-making. Two characteristics of this program are, first, compelling empirical demonstrations that in some decision-making situations naïve observers violate