[Vorwort] Das 1. Symposium für Ökonomie im Gartenbau fand am 27. November 2013 in der Paulinerkirche in Göttingen statt. Es wurde als Kooperation der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, des Thünen- Instituts für Betriebswirtschaft und des Agrarkompetenznetzes WeGa durchgeführt. Die...

We introduce a computer program which calculates an agentʼs optimal behavior according to case-based decision theory (Gilboa and Schmeidler, 1995) and use it to test CBDT against a benchmark set of problems from the psychological literature on human classification learning (Shepard et al.,...

Graphical presentation of regression results has become increasingly popular in the scientific literature, as graphs are much easier to read than tables in many cases. In Stata such plots can be produced by the -marginsplot- command. However, while -marginsplot- is very versatile and flexible,...

Forward Search (FS) is an iterative method to detect the presence of groups of outliers in the case of regression or multivariate data. In the present paper, FS is applied to Istat data on marriages celebrated in 2011 and to the characteristics of partners. The aim is to identify Provinces and...

In many research papers the research methodology section gives details of the context and data gathering strategy however the data analysis process often remains a mystery. In an aim to increase collective reflection on data analysis, this article adds to emerging literature on the subject....

Nowadays Russian government pays a lot of attention to solutions of the high energy intensive production system in the country. The key factors of low efficiency of regional energy saving programs is the lack of approved standards and algorithms in the area of energy audit. In practice, both...

From the first applications to this day, expert systems have obtained remarkable results in many areas, by using knowledge extracted and transferred from human experts. The main reason behind the advent of expert systems was the potential to provide recommendations to a large number of users. In...

Mutaţiile din domeniul tehnologiei informaţionale şi al metodelor de abordare a sistemelor s-au reflectat şi în ciclul de viaţă al dezvoltării sistemelor, fie prin schimbarea etapelor acestuia, fie prin modificarea opticii de parcurgere a lor. Spre exemplu, odată cu abordarea...

Currently, two anthropological models are dominant in Romania. The first is the atheistic-evolutionary model and the second is the Christian model. The purpose of this article is to assess the students’ opinion on the two anthropological models and, in particular, on the purpose of human life....

Decisions of the organizational policies by business managers, based on ideal financial indicators, can be taken with the support of the analysis of financial ratios like predictors of business solvency, profitability and growth. This is an important financial tool to support decision making and...