Download or read book The Evolution of Cooperation written by Robert Axelrod and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A famed political scientist's classic argument for a more cooperative world We assume that, in a world ruled by natural selection, selfishness pays. So why cooperate? In The Evolution of Cooperation, political scientist Robert Axelrod seeks to answer this question. In 1980, he organized the famed Computer Prisoners Dilemma Tournament, which sought to find the optimal strategy for survival in a particular game. Over and over, the simplest strategy, a cooperative program called Tit for Tat, shut out the competition. In other words, cooperation, not unfettered competition, turns out to be our best chance for survival. A vital book for leaders and decision makers, The Evolution of Cooperation reveals how cooperative principles help us think better about everything from military strategy, to political elections, to family dynamics.
Download or read book Cooperation in Wireless Networks Principles and Applications written by Frank H. P. Fitzek and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-07-25 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cooperation in Wireless Networks: Principles and Applications covers the underlying principles of cooperative techniques as well as several applications demonstrating the use of such techniques in practical systems. The book is written in a collaborative manner by several authors from Asia, America, and Europe. This book puts into one volume a comprehensive and technically rich appraisal of the wireless communications scene from a cooperation point of view.
Download or read book Exclusion and cooperation in networks written by Aljaž Ule and published by Rozenberg Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empowering Metropolitan Regions Through New Forms of Cooperation written by Alexander Otgaar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful book analyzes the development of cross-border and cross-sector partnerships in a number of European cities and regions. Including, amongst others, Copenhagen, Budapest, Helsinki, Munich and Catalonia, these case studies shed light on the factors determining the success or failure of the coalition-forming process. Over the course of the nine case studies, the following questions are addressed: - What forms of metropolitan and/or regional partnerships can be found? -
Download or read book Managing Cooperation in Supply Network Structures and Small or Medium sized Enterprises written by Agostino Villa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-21 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Cooperation in Supply Network Structures and Small- or Medium-sized Enterprises outlines different approaches to the analysis of the organisation of small- or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Owing to the increased competition in the worldwide market, several SMEs operating in the same industrial sectors have agreed collaborative market strategies, both for raw material procurement and for final product delivery. The resulting networks, however, have a tendency to suffer from a lack of organization, which minimizes their impact on the product and labour markets, and causes a weak negotiation capacity within their supply chain. Managing Cooperation in Supply Network Structures and Small- or Medium-sized Enterprises aims to give managers of SMEs a simple methodology that helps them to understand when and why becoming a partner in an SME network can be profitable for their enterprise. It discusses the most critical organizational problems and identifies which procedures must be known to become a collaborative member of the network. Policy-makers, as well as managers and executives, will be able to appreciate the key issues in creating and managing healthy networks that serve global market requirements in the major industrial sectors. Managing Cooperation in Supply Network Structures and Small- or Medium-sized Enterprises enables them to evaluate the efficiency of their organization, and to estimate both the network performance and the opportunity for further development.
Download or read book Future of Regional Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific written by Bambang Susantono and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews progress with regional cooperation and integration in Asia and the Pacific and explores how it can be reshaped to achieve a more resilient, sustainable, and inclusive future. Consisting of papers contributed by renowned scholars and Asian Development Bank staff, the book covers four major areas: public goods, trade and investment, financial cooperation, and regional health cooperation. The book emphasizes how the region can better leverage regional integration to realize its vast potential as well as overcome challenges such as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
Download or read book Multipath TCP for User Cooperation in Wireless Networks written by Dizhi Zhou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief presents several enhancement modules to Multipath Transmission Control Protocol (MPTCP) in order to support stable and efficient multipath transmission with user cooperation in the Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. The text explains how these enhancements provide a stable aggregate throughput to the upper-layer applications; guarantee a steady goodput, which is the real application-layer perceived throughput; and ensure that the local traffic of the relays is not adversely affected when the relays are forwarding data for the destination. The performance of the proposed solutions is extensively evaluated using various scenarios. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed modules can achieve a stable aggregate throughput and significantly improve the goodput by 1.5 times on average. The brief also shows that these extensions can well respect the local traffic of the relays and motivate the relay users to provide the relaying service.
Download or read book Partnership for Local Capacity Development written by Paul N. Bongers and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2003 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Sources Of Conflict And Cooperation In The Taiwan Strait written by Yongnian Zheng and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006-07-18 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first attempt to systematically analyze issues and challenges confronting the Taiwan Strait after the March 2004 election. The volume focuses on internal politics on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and their impact on cross-Strait ties, and international responses. It also reflects different perspectives, namely, China, the United States, Singapore and Taiwan. Consolidating these perspectives, the volume suggests directions for continued research on a potentially volatile area where many view as the world's next “hot spot”.
Download or read book Multiple Connections in European Cooperation written by Kiran Klaus Patel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International organizations are ubiquitous in contemporary Europe and the wider world. This book is the first systematic assessment of the interactions of the European Communities (EC) with other Western organizations like NATO, the OECD and the Council of Europe for the period from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. Based on fresh archival research, its various contributions explore forms of co-operation and competition between these forums and thus seek to ‘provincialize’ and ‘de-centre’ the role of the predecessors of today’s European Union. Drawing on examples from a diverse set of policy fields including human rights, the environment, security, culture and regional policy, the book argues that inter-organizational dynamics are crucial to understand why the EC became increasingly hegemonic among the organizations active in governing Europe. In other words, the EU would not be what it is, were it not for the dynamics analyzed in this book. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Review of History.
Download or read book South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Operational Plan 2016 2025 Update written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2020-02-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report reflects the changes in the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation (SASEC) Program's operational plan for the period 2016–2025. It outlines the updates on the supporting list of priority projects resulting from a rigorous vetting process. This involves defining SASEC transport and energy networks and identifying priority projects based on preparedness and their roles in filling network gaps. The result is a more reasonable estimate of funding needs to help meet the SASEC Program's goals of multimodal connectivity, energy market development, and increased intraregional and interregional trade.
Download or read book A Chain of Cooperation written by United States Civil Service Commission. Bureau of Recruiting and Examining and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patents for Inventions Abridgments of Specifications written by Great Britain. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Link Proceedings 1991 1992 Selected Papers From Meetings In Moscow 1991 And Ankara 1992 written by Lawrence R Klein and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1998-10-30 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers two years of research activities associated with Project LINK, which is based on a model of the world economy, covering 79 countries or regional groupings of countries. Papers dealing with interesting thematic issues were carefully selected and expanded into full articles. The subjects studied by various LINK participants for reporting at annual meetings include exchange rate systems, international investment, environmental protection, international economic institutions, LINK system improvements, and international economic policy. As always, there are contributions dealing with methodological advances for world modeling.
Download or read book The Rwala Bedouin Today written by William Lancaster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981-09-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered by many scholars to be one of the best modern ethnographies on Middle Eastern ethnic groups, the highly regarded, unromanticized account of Bedouin life offers a clear explanation of the kinship system in nomadic societies.
