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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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Deregulation and relative wages: Stability and change in Australia
Preston, Alison - 2000
In Australia the pace of labour market deregulation has rapidly accelerated over
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Intelligent agents in electronic markets for information goods:customization, preference revelation and pricing
Aron, Ravi; Sundararajan, Arun; Viswanathan, Siva - 2005
Electronic commerce has enabled the use of intelligent agenttechnologies that can evaluate buyers, customize products, and price inreal-time. Our model of an electronic market with customizable productsanalyzes the pricing, profitability and welfare implications ofagent-based technologies that...
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A proactive response to the mobbing problem : a guide for HR managers
Shallcross, Linda; Ramsay, Sheryl; Barker, Michelle - 2010
This paper introduces the concept of workplace mobbing as a destructive organizational behaviour of psychological assaults perpetrated against the target causing them harm and loss of employment. The discussion is drawn from a three year Australian study of 212 self identified targets of...
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Estimating a Dynamic Adverse-Selection Model: Labor-Force Experience and the Changing Gender Earnings Gap 1968-–97.
Gayle, George-Levi; Golan, Limor - 2010
and discrimination to explain the narrowing gender earnings gap from 1968 to 1993. The paper proves the model is …: statistical discrimination accounts for 36 percent of the observed gender earnings gap in the mid-to-late 1970s, declining to 22 …
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Evolution of gender wage gap in Peru, 1997-2000
Longnecker, Michael (contributor);  … - 2007
gender. The wage differential due to gender, and not to differences in labor characteristics, is called discrimination. The … goal of this project is to estimate the evolution of the wages differentials and wage discrimination between males and … education and more experience will be rewarded at the same rate at any combination. The wage discrimination estimation shows …
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Labor market issues for administrators: evidence from public schools in Texas
Deere, Donald (contributor); Ureta, Manuelita (contributor) - 2007
This dissertation examines three labor market issues regarding public schooladministrators in Texas using personnel records from the 1994-95 school year untilthe 2003-04 school year. The first essay explores promotion rates of men and womento school principal, a position that requires...
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Developing reproducible and comprehensible computational models
Lane, P C R; Gobet, F - 2003
Quantitative predictions for complex scientific theories are often obtained by running simulations on computational models. In order for a theory to meet with wide-spread acceptance, it is important that the model be reproducible and comprehensible by independent researchers. However, the...
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