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

Persepsi Mengenai Skandal Auditor Terhadap Pilihan Karier Sebagai Auditor

Auditor profession have come to be society focus in the last few years, especially when case ofEnron in American up to case. Auditor\u27s scandals become problem, especially to accountingstudents that want to start their carrier. So that, this research is to examined and analyzeauditor\u27s scandals affect opinion, work at accounting profession, and career plan ofaccounting students. Data was collected by filling in questionnaire. Sample taking techniqueused in the research was purposive sampling, with criterion that is, the students ofaccounting department which still or finished taking audit studying objects at Pontianak.Data was analyzed by SPSS version 16 software package. This research includes threehypotheses. From three hypotheses, all of hypotheses are accepted. The result of testinghypothesis suggests that there is no significant auditor\u27s scandals influence on the studentcareer choice for the auditor. This research is support previous research conducted byWirianata in which students perceive positive accounting profession post-Enron scandals

Persepsi Mengenai Lingkungan Kerja Terhadap Pilihan Karier Sebagai Auditor

The purpose of this research is to investigate the perceptions of accounting students aboutauditor's work environment. This research is to examine and analyze auditor's workenvironment affect opinion, work at accounting profession, and career plan of accountingstudents. The research was conducted with a purposive sampling technique in datacollection. The research sample is determined by purposive sampling with criterion that is,the students of accounting department who still or finishing taking audit studying objects atPontianak. The data collected is classified as primer data which obtained by questionnairesdistribution. Testing hypothesis is conducted by using simple regression and multipleregressions. This research includes three of hypotheses. From three of hypothesis, two ofhypotheses are rejected. The result of testing this hypothesis suggests that the workenvironment has a significance value of 0.029 which means it has a significant influence onstudent career choice for the auditor. This research is supports previous research conductedby Rasmini

Kata Serapan Bahasa Sanskerta dalam Bahasa Indonesia

Penelitian ini mendeskripsikan tentang linguistis (1) kosakata bahasa Melayu yang diperoleh dari bahasa Sansekerta dan (2) Perubahan bahasa Sanskerta dalam bahasa Melayu dan bahasa Indonesia. Penelitian ini bercorak kualitatif dengan metode deskriptif. Sumber data penelitian berasal dari dokumen tertulis berupa kamus, yaitu “Dictionaire Malais-Français Par L'abbé P. Favre, Vienne Imprimerie Impériale Et Royale, Tahun MDCCCLXXV Paris, buku 1 (917 halaman) dan Buku 2 (879 halaman)”. Hasil penelitian ini, dari 413 kosakata bahasa Melayu yang berasal dari bahasa Sanskerta menunjukkan (1) kosakata bahasa Sanskerta ada yang mengalami Perubahan bentuk dan ada pula yang tetap sebagaimana bahasa asli Sanskerta, (2) Perubahan makna terjadi bilamana (a) kata Sanskerta sama dengan bahasa Melayu dan berubah dalam bahasa Indonesia, (b) kata Sanskerta sama dengan bahasa Indonesia dan berubah dalam bahasa Melayu, (c) kosakata Sanskerta ditemukan dalam bahasa Melayu dan tidak menjadi bahasa Indonesia, dan (d) serapan Sanskerta dalam bahasa Melayu ditemukan juga dalam bahasa Kawi (Jawa Kuno), bahasa Jawa, dan bahasa Sunda, tetapi tidak/belum menjadi kosakata bahasa Indonesia