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Adaptive Agent Modeling in a Policy Context

Gulden, Timothy R - 2004

This dissertation examines the utility of adaptive agent modeling (also referred to as agent-based modeling or individual based modeling) as a tool in public policy research. It uses the adaptive agent technique to produce useful results in three diverse areas. It demonstrates that the adaptive...

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Multi-agent utility theory for ethical conflict resolution, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2002, nr 3

Tamura, Hiroyuki

In this paper we try to construct a two-attribute group disutility function for two conflicting decision makers, taking into account the property of utility independence and/or convex dependence between them. Two variables in the group utility function are disutility levels of two conflicting...

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ESSAYS IN OUTSOURCED IS PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

Parolia, Neeraj - 2013

IS vendor organizations are increasingly using program management practices to manage complex projects (Gierra 2004). The move to program teams is due to the realization that the management of many client projects and their underlying dependencies requires teamwork among project managers from...

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Positioning terrorism in management and marketing: Research propositions

Czinkota, M.R.; Knight, G. A.; Liesch, P. W.; Steen, J. T. - 2005

Terrorism poses both direct and indirect threats to the operations of the firm. It represents a market imperfection … in the presence of unhindered exchange. Terrorism reflects the risk or actual encounter of violent acts, whose goal is to … engender fear, coercion, or intimidation. We investigate terrorism and its association with marketing strategy and operations …

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Essays on risk aversion

Neilson, William S. (contributor) - 2006

This dissertation contains three essays on risk aversion. In the first essay, we an-alyze comparative risk aversion in a new way, through a comparative statics problemin which, for a cost, agents can shift from an initial probability distribution towarda preferred distribution. The Ross...

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Simulating the Impacts of Agroterrorism on U.S. Financial Markets and Regional Economic Performance

Routhe, Christopher - 2007

The threat of terrorism against the United States has been a primary concern of public policy makers, particularly … simulation model that captures the impacts of agricultural terrorism (agroterrorism) on the economic performance of various … financial uncertainty brought forth by terrorism can decrease consumer confidence, increase interest rates, increase credit …

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Inspections to Avert Terrorism: Robustness Under Severe Uncertainty

Moffitt, L. Joe; Stranlund, John K.; Field, Barry C. - 2005

Protecting against terrorist attacks requires making decisions in a world in which attack probabilities are largely unknown. The potential for very large losses encourages a conservative perspective, in particular toward decisions that are robust. But robustness, in the sense of assurance...

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Analysis of the Colby quarterly econometric model of the U.S. economy using the economic effects of September 11th

Culpen, Alison - 2002

The economic repercussions of September 11th are unique in that never before have economists needed to forecast and examine the impact of an event of such magnitude. This paper explains many of the economic effects of September l Ith, from the initial aftermath to recent developments. These...

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Three Essays on the Objective Function in Economics.

Goldstein, Daniel A. - 2007

This dissertation consists of three largely independent essays. The first finds a significant correlation between the price of crude oil and significant terrorist attacks by groups of Middle Eastern origin against Western nations. In particular, such terrorist attacks are considerably more...

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Repression and Newtwork Science: Tools in Fight against Terrorism

Wright, Dominick' E - 2010

terrorism. Chapter 2 takes the opposite view, using highpoweredstatistics to evaluate a single case. At question is the tool in …

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