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Book Strategic Decisions in Directed Networks

Download or read book Strategic Decisions in Directed Networks written by Amnon Rapoport and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-09 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects and integrates the results of an extensive research program conducted by the authors over the past two decades. It spans the disciplines of transportation science, operations management, and behavioral economics, and consists of 16 chapters previously published in peer-reviewed academic journals and grouped under three topical sections: queueing, route choice, and departure time. The book focuses on strategic interactions in directed networks and laboratory experiments carefully designed to test the descriptive validity of the underlying theoretical models. The research question that unifies the chapters is: do the conclusions of theoretical literature account for the decisions of network users in controlled laboratory experiments? With several major qualifications, this book answers this question affirmatively.

Book Strategic Decisions in Directed Networks

Download or read book Strategic Decisions in Directed Networks written by Amnon Rapoport and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects and integrates the results of an extensive research program conducted by the authors over the past two decades. It spans the disciplines of transportation science, operations management, and behavioral economics, and consists of 16 chapters previously published in peer-reviewed academic journals and grouped under three topical sections: queueing, route choice, and departure time. The book focuses on strategic interactions in directed networks and laboratory experiments carefully designed to test the descriptive validity of the underlying theoretical models. The research question that unifies the chapters is: do the conclusions of theoretical literature account for the decisions of network users in controlled laboratory experiments? With several major qualifications, this book answers this question affirmatively.

Book Planning Based on Decision Theory

Download or read book Planning Based on Decision Theory written by Giacomo Della Riccia and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-04 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planning of actions based on decision theory is a hot topic for many disciplines. Seemingly unlimited computing power, networking, integration and collaboration have meanwhile attracted the attention of fields like Machine Learning, Operations Research, Management Science and Computer Science. Software agents of e-commerce, mediators of Information Retrieval Systems and Database based Information Systems are typical new application areas. Until now, planning methods were successfully applied in production, logistics, marketing, finance, management, and used in robots, software agents etc. It is the special feature of the book that planning is embedded into decision theory, and this will give the interested reader new perspectives to follow-up.

Book Organised Crime and Law Enforcement

Download or read book Organised Crime and Law Enforcement written by David Bright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organised Crime and Law Enforcement: A Network Perspective examines organised crime and law enforcement through the conceptual lens of networks. The book takes stock of the many ways in which network theories and concepts, including social network analysis, can apply to studying both organised crime and law enforcement responses to organised crime. It is the first attempt to bring these diverse network perspectives and distinct fields of research together. The book is organised into two parts. The first part uses network perspectives to advance our understanding of the interconnected social structure of organised criminal groups, to expose their strengths and vulnerabilities, and to illuminate factors that enable such groups to undertake complex criminal activities. The second part uses a network lens to examine the challenges that organised criminal groups present for a wide range of law enforcement agencies, and the utility of network theories and concepts in understanding and informing their responses to organised crime. Written in a clear and direct style, the book will appeal to scholars and practitioners of criminology, sociology, law enforcement, and all those interested in learning more about theories of organised crime and its relationship with law enforcement.

Book Strategies for Shaping Territorial Competitiveness

Download or read book Strategies for Shaping Territorial Competitiveness written by Jesús M. Valdaliso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the main challenges that cities, regions and other territories at sub-national level face when it comes to designing and implementing a territorial strategy for economic development and competitiveness. There is a widespread recognition that territories need to construct strategies that focus on shaping sustainable competitive advantages. To do this they draw upon their own unique resources and capabilities alongside intelligence on existing technological and market trends. However, there is still a notorious lack of both theoretical and empirical research on this issue. The first part of this book develops a theoretical framework for understanding and analysing territorial strategy. This framework asks three questions of territorial strategy – what for, what, and how – looking closely at the key relationship between strategy and policy. The second part is dedicated to exploring this framework in practice through application to a series of unique cases from around the world at different territorial levels, from regions such as the Basque Country, Navarre and Murcia in Spain, Okanagan (British Columbia) in Canada, Wales in the United Kingdom, and the cross-border region of the Øresund in Denmark–Sweden, as well as the city of Rafaela in Argentina. Each case offers something different and enables the framework to be thoroughly tested, generating concluding reflections that add real value for scholars and policy-makers interested in and working in the field of territorial strategy. This volume is intended for the academic community, the policy community (government leaders, policy-makers, policy researchers and consultants) and university students and teachers at different levels interested in the areas of territorial competitiveness, regional development, competitiveness policies and processes of territorial strategy.

Book Research Anthology on Strategies for Using Social Media as a Service and Tool in Business

Download or read book Research Anthology on Strategies for Using Social Media as a Service and Tool in Business written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 1865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social media has become an integral part of society as social networking has become a main form of communication and human interaction. To stay relevant, businesses have adopted social media tactics to interact with consumers, conduct business, and remain competitive. Social technologies have reached a vital point in the business world, being essential in strategic decision-making processes, building relationships with consumers, marketing and branding efforts, and other important areas. While social media continues to gain importance in modern society, it is essential to determine how it functions in contemporary business. The Research Anthology on Strategies for Using Social Media as a Service and Tool in Business provides updated information on how businesses are strategically using social media and explores the role of social media in keeping businesses competitive in the global economy. The chapters will discuss how social tools work, what services businesses are utilizing, both the benefits and challenges to how social media is changing the modern business atmosphere, and more. This book is essential for researchers, instructors, social media managers, business managers, students, executives, practitioners, industry professionals, social media analysts, and all audiences interested in how social media is being used in modern businesses as both a service and integral tool.

Book Routledge Companion to Coopetition Strategies

Download or read book Routledge Companion to Coopetition Strategies written by Anne-Sophie Fernandez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference volume is the first to provide a comprehensive international survey of co-opetition research. Organised thematically and written by the world's most cited researchers in the field, it views the topic through the lens of a variety of disciplines including innovation, strategic management, marketing and operations management. This reference book is the definitive resource for researchers looking to understand the field of co-opetition throughout business and management

Book Knock  em Dead Collection

Download or read book Knock em Dead Collection written by Martin Yate and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 1768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Martin Yate has helped millions of people turn their lives around by finding great jobs and managing their careers more effectively. Now his unique and proven secrets to success can be found in one place: the Knock ’em Dead Collection. Inside, you’ll find everything you need to make a successful next step: *Knock ’em Dead: The Ultimate Job Search Guide *Knock ’em Dead Cover Letters *Knock ’em Dead Resumes Whether you’re making a strategic career move or seeking your first job, with the Knock ’em Dead Collection, you’ll be better prepared to navigate the twists and turns of a long and successful career.

Book Knock  em Dead Resumes

Download or read book Knock em Dead Resumes written by Martin Yate and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A killer resume gets more job interviews."

Book Social and Economic Networks

Download or read book Social and Economic Networks written by Matthew O. Jackson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact behavior, which network structures are likely to emerge in a society, and why we organize ourselves as we do. In Social and Economic Networks, Matthew Jackson offers a comprehensive introduction to social and economic networks, drawing on the latest findings in economics, sociology, computer science, physics, and mathematics. He provides empirical background on networks and the regularities that they exhibit, and discusses random graph-based models and strategic models of network formation. He helps readers to understand behavior in networked societies, with a detailed analysis of learning and diffusion in networks, decision making by individuals who are influenced by their social neighbors, game theory and markets on networks, and a host of related subjects. Jackson also describes the varied statistical and modeling techniques used to analyze social networks. Each chapter includes exercises to aid students in their analysis of how networks function. This book is an indispensable resource for students and researchers in economics, mathematics, physics, sociology, and business.

Book Analytical Approaches to Strategic Decision Making  Interdisciplinary Considerations

Download or read book Analytical Approaches to Strategic Decision Making Interdisciplinary Considerations written by Tavana, Madjid and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using interdisciplinary approaches to strategic management can strengthen the decision making process. Incorporating various methods will also encourage productivity, expand knowledge of participants, and increase technical proficiency. Analytical Approaches to Strategic Decision-Making: Interdisciplinary Considerations aims to integrate different techniques into the world’s fast-changing and dynamic society to better equip all readers and practitioners with the most effective knowledge. Managers, CEOs, researchers, and academics in the fields of business and leadership will all benefit from this valuable resource through an enhanced understanding of best practices in decision-making and management.

Book Optimization and Cooperative Control Strategies

Download or read book Optimization and Cooperative Control Strategies written by Michael Hirsch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-01-17 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cooperative, collaborating autonomous systems are at the forefront of research efforts in numerous disciplines across the applied sciences. There is constant progress in solution techniques for these systems. However, despite this progress, cooperating systems have continued to be extremely difficult to model, analyze, and solve. Theoretical results are very difficult to come by. Each year, the International Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization (CCO) brings together top researchers from around the world to present new, cutting-edge, ideas, theories, applications, and advances in the fields of autonomous agents, cooperative systems, control theory, information flow, and optimization. The works in this volume are a result of invited papers and selected presentations at the Eighth Annual International Conference on Cooperative Control and Optimization, held in Gainesville, Florida, January 30 – February 1, 2008.

Book Intelligent Strategies for Pathway Mining

Download or read book Intelligent Strategies for Pathway Mining written by Qingfeng Chen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is organized into thirteen chapters that range over the relevant approaches and tools in data integration, modeling, analysis and knowledge discovery for signaling pathways. Having in mind that the book is also addressed for students, the contributors present the main results and techniques in an easily accessed and understood way together with many references and instances. Chapter 1 presents an introduction to signaling pathway, including motivations, background knowledge and relevant data mining techniques for pathway data analysis. Chapter 2 presents a variety of data sources and data analysis with respect to signaling pathway, including data integration and relevant data mining applications. Chapter 3 presents a framework to measure the inconsistency between heterogenous biological databases. A GO-based (genome ontology) strategy is proposed to associate different data sources. Chapter 4 presents identification of positive regulation of kinase pathways in terms of association rule mining. The results derived from this project could be used when predicting essential relationships and enable a comprehensive understanding of kinase pathway interaction. Chapter 5 presents graphical model-based methods to identify regulatory network of protein kinases. A framework using negative association rule mining is introduced in Chapter 6 to discover featured inhibitory regulation patterns and the relationships between involved regulation factors. It is necessary to not only detect the objects that exhibit a positive regulatory role in a kinase pathway but also to discover those objects that inhibit the regulation. Chapter 7 presents methods to model ncRNA secondary structure data in terms of stems, loops and marked labels, and illustrates how to find matched structure patterns for a given query. Chapter 8 shows an interval-based distance metric for computing the distance between conserved RNA secondary structures. Chapter 9 presents a framework to explore structural and functional patterns of RNA pseudoknot structure according to probability matrix. Chapter 10 presents methods to model miRNA data and identify miRNA interaction of cross-species and within-species. Chapter 11 presents an approach to measure the importance of miRNA site and the adjacent base by using information redundancy and develops a novel measure to identify strongly correlated infrequent itemsets. The discover association rules not only present important structural features in miRNAs, but also promote a comprehensive understanding of regulatory roles of miRNAs. Chapter 12 presents bioinformatics techniques for protein kinase data management and analysis, kinase pathways and drug targets, and describes their potential application in pharmaceutical industry. Chapter 13 presents a summary of the chapters and give a brief discussion to some emerging issues.

Book Handbook of Business to Business Marketing

Download or read book Handbook of Business to Business Marketing written by Lilien, Gary L. and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This path-breaking Handbook is targeted primarily at marketing academics and graduate students who want a comprehensive overview of the academic state of the business-to-business marketing domain. It will also prove an invaluable resource for forward-thinking business-to-business practitioners who want to be aware of the current state of knowledge in their domains.

Book Simulated Evolution and Learning

Download or read book Simulated Evolution and Learning written by Tzai-Der Wang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-10-06 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning, SEAL 2006, held in Hefei, China in October 2006. The 117 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 420 submissions.

Book Making Wicked Problems Governable

Download or read book Making Wicked Problems Governable written by Ewan Ferlie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyses the developments of inter-organizational networks in the UK National Health Service during the New Labour period, combining empirical case studies from various policy arenas (clinical genetics, cancer networks, sexual health networks, and long term care) with a theoretically informed analysis.

Book Remote Workforce Training  Effective Technologies and Strategies

Download or read book Remote Workforce Training Effective Technologies and Strategies written by Hai-Jew, Shalin and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lifelong learning can occur both in and out of the classroom, but the most valuable instruction takes place on the job. Remote Workforce Training: Effective Technologies and Strategies investigates methods, techniques, and systems used in employee training programs. The tools and technologies surveyed within these pages will help employers take their workers beyond the transient skill sets offered by university degrees and into a constant state of learning and practice that will enhance both their productivity and technical abilities on a regular basis. In particular, the knowledge offered by this reference book will be of use to educators and students as well as managers, leaders, administrators, and personnel.