Cooperative aspects of multiple criteria decision making with respect to cost allocation in a network will be studied. The vector valued costs of a graph that connects a group of geographically scattered users to a common source have to be distributed among the users. Here a specific class of...

Compared with existing payment systems, Bitcoin’s throughput is low. Designed to address Bitcoin’s scalability challenge, the Lightning Network (LN) is a protocol allowing two parties to secure bitcoin payments and escrow holdings between them. In a lightning channel, each party commits...

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- About the Author -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Structure of the Book -- Chapter 2 Theoretical Context -- Management Context -- Project Transitions -- Project Management as Practice -- Systems...

Agents in a network want to learn the true state of the world from their own signals and their neighbors' reports. Agents know only their local networks, consisting of their neighbors and the links among them. Every agent is Bayesian with the (possibly misspecified) prior belief that her local...