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We analyze tournaments of heterogeneous players from an organizer’s perspective. Using a simple model of a noisy tournament, we demonstrate how the likelihood of selecting the best player, here termed the “predictive power” of a tournament, depends on the tournament format, the...
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This paper explores the experiences of engineering, design and construction organizations (EDOs) in developing … innovative approaches to performance measurement in their design activities. It contrasts experiences of these firms with those … of manufacturing organizations. It finds that performance measurement of engineering design activities is poorly …
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This paper documents the dialogic design of an honours level undergraduate degree course, Accounting and Sustainability …
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recognition has been recent. Hence, there is very little formal research on the design and study of IEAs. As such, in this paper …, I propose and describe a research agenda for the design and study of IEAs. Very generally, I propose that we frame the … IEA design question as a problem in mechanism design. We will then be able to use, inter alia, the theory of common agency …
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Decisions made during the briefing and conceptual design stages of a building project are critical to its success. One …. These were established via a postal questionnaire survey of a stratified sample of design professionals, contractors and … the respondents, which may result in conflicts between design and construction advisers and their clients should they be …
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Romanian retailing is in a period of changes, not always positive, which had modified its characteristics. Among positive changes it could be mentioned: the appearance and the extending of private property, the presence of some great foreign firms, the improving of commercial technologies, the...
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This paper presents a knowledge-based approach to facilitate the engineering design process relating to spacecrafts …. Because the design evolves over a long time and typically involves individuals working at different locations and frequently … determining the aggregate time and cost involved in each instance of spacecraft design. A major aspect of such collaboration is …
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the theory and practice of auction design as it relates specifically to U.S. restructured wholesale power markets, i …
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