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Les nouvelles technologies de l'information (NTI) bouleversent à plus d'un point de vue la nature de la relation entre les consommateurs et les entreprises. Qu'elles soient liées au produit et à l'entreprise (code-barres), au consommateur (carte de crédit, carte à puce, carte de débit,...
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Traditionally, the company has been attributed relative control over employees' career paths, particularly in the case of very active organizational management. However, the growing need for organizational flexibility has led to the increasing recourse to atypical work, which in turn contributes...
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One problem with existing agent-mediated negotiation systems is that they rely on ad hoc, static, non-adaptive, and hardcoded schemes to represent the behaviour of agents. This limitation is probably due to the complexity of the negotiation task itself. Indeed, while negotiating, software...
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We describe a general structure allowing to represent in a regular and extensible way all the financial data available in a research laboratory (at present, the Adaptive Computer Systems Laboratory of the Université de Montréal). After an analysis of field, we clarify the XML representation of...
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We provide results for the valuation of European style contingent claims for a large class of specifications of the underlying asset returns. Our valuation results obtain in a discrete time, infinite state-space setup using the no-arbitrage principle and an equivalent martingale measure. Our...
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This paper extends the use of Rao (1982b)'s Quadratic Entropy (RQE) to modern portfolio theory. It argues that the RQE of a portfolio is a valid, exible and unifying approach to measuring portfolio diversification. The paper demonstrates that portfolio's RQE can encompass most existing measures,...
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We provide an introductory review to the application of the theory of incentives under asymmetry of information to the exploitation and management of natural resources. We concentrate mostly on principalagent problems with adverse selection as posed by the regulation of nonrenewable resources,...
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Ce rapport est le deuxième d’une série concernant l’évaluation expérimentale d’enchère à prix aléatoires appliquée aux droits d’exploitation de la forêt québécoise et fait suite au « Rapport I : Comparaison d’enchères multiples de premier et de deuxième prix »...
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The evaluation of development processes and of public policies often involves comparisons of social states that differ in income distributions, population sizes and life longevity. This may require social evaluation principles to be sensitive to the quality, the quantity and the duration of...
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