This dissertation challenges the argument common in the scholarly literature and policy discourse on peacebuilding that the way to achieve coordination in peacebuilding is to establish a strong, overarching coordination authority. 1 While some degree of centralization may be pos…
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This dissertation investigates the factors involved in producing agreement, using evidence from conjoined subjects in English and Lebanese Arabic. Specifically, the goal was to test psycholinguistic and syntactic theories of agreement by examining the relative contributions of l…
In this work, connectivity graphs have been studied as models of local interactions in multi-agent robotic systems. A systematic study of the space of connectivity graphs has been done from a geometric and topological point of view. Some results on the realization of connectivit…
After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, accusations have been leveled against the United States, and specifically the CIA, for rendering hundreds of people suspected by the US government of being terrorists (or of aiding and abetting terrorist organizations) to third-par…
In the era of big data, large volumes of data are collected, communicated, processed, stored, and retrieved to enable a wealth of new applications in all facets of everyday life. The fine-grained collection of information and ever-increasing reliance on computing and networking …
Sexual conflict occurs when males and females do not maximize reproductive success in the same way. Conversely, when the fitness prospects of each sex are aligned, there is greater advantage to cooperate and to coordinate. This situation, where breeding partners share a higher p…