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Economic Models for Management of Resources in Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing

Buyya, Rajkumar; Stockinger, Heinz; Giddy, Jonathan; … - EconWPA - 2001

brokering through Nimrod/G deadline and cost-based scheduling for two different optimization strategies on the World Wide Grid …

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Survival in a Declining Industry: The Case of Baseball Cards

Zillante, Arthur - EconWPA - 2005

The baseball card industry provides a case study of survival in a declining industry. The case study shows how manufacturers have varied their strategic behavior in response to changes that have occurred within the industry in the last 20 years. This is in stark contrast to most of the existing...

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Audit externe sur la dette globale du Canton du Valais / External audit of the overall debt of the Swiss canton of Valais

Soguel, Nils; Iogna-Prat, Simon - EconWPA - 2005

The motion passed in 2002 in the parliament of the Swiss canton of Valais by the MP Yves Bagnoud requires that the government has the overall debt of the State externally audited. The aim of this study is to provide information to answer the motion. To do so, the study is organised as follows....

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The LaTeX project: A case study of open-source software

Gaudeul, Alexandre - EconWPA - 2004

This is a case study of TeX, a typesetting software that was developed by Donald E. Knuth in the late 70's. Released with an open source license, it has become a reference in scientific publishing. TeX is now used to typeset and publish much of the world's scientific literature in physics and...

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The LaTeX project: A case study of open source software

Gaudeul, Alex - EconWPA - 2004

The TeX typesetting software was developed by Donald E. Knuth in the late 1970s. It was released with an open source license and has become a reference in scientific publishing. TeX is now used to typeset and publish much of the world’s scientific literature in physics and mathematics. This...

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HEURISTICS USED BY HUMANS WITH PREFRONTAL CORTEX DAMAGE: TOWARD AN EMPIRICAL MODEL OF PHINEAS GAGE

Houser, Daniel; McCabe, Kevin; Keane, Michael; Bechara, … - EconWPA - 2003

by pre-specifying a set of candidate decision-making heuristics and then assigning each subject to the heuristic that … prefrontal cortex damage. The reason is that introspection is typically used to generate the candidate heuristic set, but this … type classification approach introduced by Houser, Keane and McCabe (2002) to investigate the heuristics used by subjects …

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The Promises and Perils of Agent-Based Computational Economics

Richiardi, Matteo - EconWPA - 2004

critiques against the use of simulation, which point to the following problematic areas: (i) interpretation of the simulation … dynamics, (ii) estimation of the simulation model, and (iii) generalisation of the results. I show that there exist solutions …

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A Laboratory Experiment of Knowledge Diffusion Dynamics

Morone, Piergiuseppe; Taylor, Richard - EconWPA - 2004

This paper aims to study, by means of a laboratory experiment and a simulation model, some of the mechanisms which …

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A Toolkit for Optimizing Functions in Economics

Goffe, William L. - EconWPA - 1997

Optimization algorithms must be among the most common numerical methods used by economists. Yet, there is surprisingly little guidance on choosing the appropriate one. This problem is most notable with regard to conventional versus global optimizers. Typically, a global optimizer is used when a...

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Long Memory Options: LM Evidence and Simulations

Jamdee, Sutthisit; Los, Cornelis A. - EconWPA - 2005

valuation by simple simulation. Many empirical researchers have observed the non-Fickian degrees of persistence or long memory …

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