Consensus as a Nash Equilibrium of a Dynamic Game

Consensus formation in a social network is modeled by a dynamic game of a prescribed duration played by members of the network. Each member independently minimizes a cost function that represents his/her motive. An integral cost function penalizes a member's differences of opinion from the others as well as from his/her own initial opinion, weighted by influence and stubbornness parameters. Each member uses its rate of change of opinion as a control input. This defines a dynamic non-cooperative game that turns out to have a unique Nash equilibrium. Analytic explicit expressions are derived for the opinion trajectory of each member for two representative cases obtained by suitable assumptions on the graph topology of the network. These trajectories are then examined under different assumptions on the relative sizes of the influence and stubbornness parameters that appear in the cost functions.Comment: 7 pages, 9 figure, Pre-print from the Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Signal Image Technology and Internet-based Systems (SITIS), 201

Studi Deskriptif Gaya Kepemimpinan di PT Mega Daya Motor

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk dapat mengetahui gaya kepemimpinan yang diterapkan oleh Perusahaan main dealer mobil Mazda di Surabaya. Dalam ketatnya persaingan Perusahaan di Indonesia, pentingnya jiwa kepemimpinan dalam mengelola dan menetapkan suatu keputusan untuk mencapai suatu visi dan misi Perusahaan. Penelitian ini dimaksudkan untuk mengetahui gaya kepemimpinan apa yang diterapkan oleh Direktur PT Mega Daya Motor. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah kualitatif deskriptif. Dalam proses pengumpulan data menggunakan metode wawancara semistruktur. Penentuan narasumber menggunakan purposive sampling, kemudian pengujian keabsaan data yang di dapatkan menggunakan trianggulasi sumber. Dari hasil penelitian diketahui bahwa gaya kepemimpinan yang diterapkan oleh Direktur adalah partisipati

PENGARUH KUALITAS PELAYANAN DAN HARGA TERHADAP KEPUASAN DAN DAMPAKNYA TERHADAP WORD OF MOUTH PADA SUZUYA MALL BANDA ACEH

ABSTRAKPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh kualitas pelayanan dan harga terhadap kepuasan dan dampaknya terhadap word of mouth pada suzuya mall Banda Aceh. Sampel yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah 130 responden Masyarakat banda aceh dan aceh besar yang pernah berbelanja pada suzuya mall. Teknik pengambilan sampel menggunakan purposive sampling. Metode Hierarchical Linear Modelling(HLM) digunakan untuk mengetahui pengaruh variable-variabel yang terlibat. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa kualitas pelayanan, harga dan kepuasan memiliki pengaruh terhadap word of mouth. Selain itu, diperoleh hasil bahwa Variabel kepuasan tidak memediasi kualitas pelayanan dan harga terhadap word of mouth. Semakin tinggi kualitas pelayanan dan harga maka akan semakin tinggi kepuasan.Kata kunci : Kualitas pelayanan, harga, kepuasan dan word of mouthABSTRACKThis study aims to determine the effect of service quality and price on satisfaction and its impact on word of mouth on the suzuya mall Banda Aceh. The sample used in this study was 130 respondents from the community of Banda Aceh and the Aceh besar who had shopped at Suzuya Mall. The sampling technique uses purposive sampling. The Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) method is used to determine the effect of the variables involved. The results of this study indicate that service quality, price and satisfaction have an influence on word of mouth. In addition, the results obtained that the satisfaction variable does not mediate the quality of service and prices for word of mouth. The higher the quality of service and price, the higher satisfaction will be.Keywords: Service quality, price, satisfaction and word of mout

Woman as Actress of Traditional Performing ARTS and Gender Justice in East Java

Main problem is whether gender justice and equality in art performance, mainly in traditional art performance, have become central issues in efforts to socialize and as a gender mainstream in Education, Law, Economy, Politic, and Social. In general and traditional art performance, woman always involved, especially the main actresses in various art performances, they are adored both as ‘diva or idol' who are able to attract people and also are humiliated because, in some occasions, she shows her over-sensuality so that it humiliates her dignity as a woman. The both positions generate a number of questions about position of gender mainstream and its advocating

Penerapan Fasilitas Goal Seek Pada Excel Sebagai Alat Perencanaan Keuangan

Companies that can survive the current fierce competition are companies that do carefulplanning about what to do in the future. Planning needs to be done for one company isrelated to financial planning. With financial planning firms will know how much the cost, theprofit to be achieved and the volume of sales or production. Determination of a number ofsales volume can be achieved by the company to do with the Goal Seek facility. Goal Seek isone of the facilities provided by Excel in order to facilitate the users in finding the value thatmust be achieved with pre-determined conditions. In this case, the Goal Seek facility that canbe known with certainty how much should be produced or sold in order to obtain theexpected earnings accurately