Download or read book Difficult People at Work written by National Institute of Business Management and published by Capitol Information Group. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Player s Power to Change the Game written by Anne-Marie Schleiner and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, what could be considered a gamification of the world has occurred, as the ties between games and activism, games and war, and games and the city grow ever stronger. In this book, Anne-Marie Schleiner explores a concept she calls 'ludic mutation', a transformative process in which the player, who is expected to engage in the preprogramed interactions of the game and accept its imposed subjective constraints, seizes back some of the power otherwise lost to the game itself. Crucially, this power grab is also relevant beyond the game because players then see the external world as material to be reconfigured, an approach with important ramifications for everything from social activism to contemporary warfare.
Download or read book Game Balance written by Ian Schreiber and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the field of game design, game balance can best be described as a black art. It is the process by which game designers make a game simultaneously fair for players while providing them just the right amount of difficulty to be both exciting and challenging without making the game entirely predictable. This involves a combination of mathematics, psychology, and occasionally other fields such as economics and game theory. Game Balance offers readers a dynamic look into game design and player theory. Throughout the book, relevant topics on the use of spreadsheet programs will be included in each chapter. This book therefore doubles as a useful reference on Microsoft Excel, Google Spreadsheets, and other spreadsheet programs and their uses for game designers. FEATURES The first and only book to explore game balance as a topic in depth Topics range from intermediate to advanced, while written in an accessible style that demystifies even the most challenging mathematical concepts to the point where a novice student of game design can understand and apply them Contains powerful spreadsheet techniques which have been tested with all major spreadsheet programs and battle-tested with real-world game design tasks Provides short-form exercises at the end of each chapter to allow for practice of the techniques discussed therein along with three long-term projects divided into parts throughout the book that involve their creation Written by award-winning designers with decades of experience in the field Ian Schreiber has been in the industry since 2000, first as a programmer and then as a game designer. He has worked on eight published game titles, training/simulation games for three Fortune 500 companies, and has advised countless student projects. He is the co-founder of Global Game Jam, the largest in-person game jam event in the world. Ian has taught game design and development courses at a variety of colleges and universities since 2006. Brenda Romero is a BAFTA award-winning game director, entrepreneur, artist, and Fulbright award recipient and is presently game director and creator of the Empire of Sin franchise. As a game director, she has worked on 50 games and contributed to many seminal titles, including the Wizardry and Jagged Alliance series and titles in the Ghost Recon, Dungeons & Dragons, and Def Jam franchises.
Download or read book Applied Combinatorics written by Fred Roberts and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-06-03 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with solutions to selected problems, Applied Combinatorics, Second Edition presents the tools of combinatorics from an applied point of view. This bestselling textbook offers numerous references to the literature of combinatorics and its applications that enable readers to delve more deeply into the topics.After introducing fundamental counting
Download or read book Sports Agents and Labour Markets written by Giambattista Rossi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sports agent has become a highly significant figure in contemporary sport business. The role of the agent is essential to our understanding of labour markets and labour relations in an increasingly globalised sports industry. Drawing on extensive empirical research into football around the world, this book explains what agents do, how their role has changed, and why this is important for future sport business. Offering analysis from economic, legal, social and historical perspectives, the book explores key topics such as: the history of sports agents including the emergence of the modern agent in US sport typologies and demographic profiles of agents in football valuations and organisational analysis of leading European agents and agencies relations between agents and clubs future directions for research into sports agents. Focusing on the major European leagues, this book goes further than any other in illuminating an important but under-researched aspect of contemporary sport business. It is a valuable resource for any student, researcher or policy-maker with an interest in sport business, sport management, sport policy, the economics of sport or labour economics.
Download or read book Computational Science and Its Applications ICCSA 2016 written by Osvaldo Gervasi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five-volume set LNCS 9786-9790 constitutes the refereed proceedingsof the 16th International Conference on Computational Science and ItsApplications, ICCSA 2016, held in Beijing, China, in July 2016. The 239 revised full papers and 14 short papers presented at 33 workshops were carefully reviewed and selected from 849 submissions. They are organized in five thematical tracks: computational methods, algorithms and scientific applications; high performance computing and networks; geometric modeling, graphics and visualization; advanced and emerging applications; and information systems and technologies.
Download or read book Negotiation Games written by Steven J. Brams and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven J. Brams is one of the leading game theorists of his generation. This new edition includes brand new material on topics such as fallback bargaining and principles of rational negotiation.
Download or read book Superior Beings written by BRAMS and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central question I pose in this book is: If there existed a supe rior being who possessed the supernatural qualities of omni science, omnipotence, immortality, and incomprehensibility, how would he/she act differently from us, and would these differences be knowable? (ßecause God, the superior being in the Judeo Christian tradition, is generally described as a male, I shall hence forth use the masculine pronoun form for convenience, but I intend no invidious gender distinctions, whether applied to super natural or natural beings.l Theologians, philosophers of religion, and erudite scholars in other disciplines have addressed this and related questions before, but their answers, generally speaking, have not been informed by any systematic or rigorous theory. I believe the mathematical theory of games, which has little to do with the frivolity and playfulness we normally associate with games, provides a powerful tool for clarifying the key theo logical concepts in my central question and drawing out their implications in games played between human and superior beings. I am fully aware that not everybody will agree that omni science, omnipotence, immortality, and incomprehensibility are what I say they are, but I invite them to propose their own defi- Preface viii nitions and derive their own conclusions with the aid of the theory. By endowing these protean concepts with unambiguous meanings, I will try to show how game theory can breathe life into questions that have been dismissed too quickly simply because they are metaphysical-outside the world of experience.
Download or read book Artificial Intelligence and Security written by Xingming Sun and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume set LNCS 13338-13340 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Security, ICAIS 2022, which was held in Qinghai, China, in July 2022. The total of 166 papers included in the 3 volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 1124 submissions. The papers present research, development, and applications in the fields of artificial intelligence and information security
Download or read book DEVELOPMENT OF SELECTION NORMS FOR SENIOR VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS written by DR. P.P. Satya Paul Kumar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The game 'Volleyball' was invented basically with a view to serve the purpose of recreation. Gradually, it has turned into a competitive sport that requires an optimum level of fitness. Of course, the requisite level of fitness of State level Senior Volleyball players.
Download or read book Understanding and Servicing CD Players written by KEN CLEMENTS and published by Newnes. This book was released on 1994-09-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written specifically with service technicians and engineers in mind, this book is designed as a bench-side companion and guide to the principles involved in repairing and adjusting CD players. Engineers will find this a helpful companion to the various service manuals. The text takes a problem solving approach with numerous examples, circuit diagrams and line drawings. Engineers who need to achieve a better understanding of CD technology will find this book an essential tool for fault diagnosis, adjustment and repair. This book not only covers the mechanical design but also the integrated circuits within a CD player. It is written for immediate application and is well illustrated, so it should become a welcome addition to the rack of tools available to the service engineer. Ken Clements has extensive experience of the service industry both as a service manager and later in technical training with Sony and Pioneer. It is his hands-on knowledge that makes the book so valuable, not only as a wide-ranging reference but also as a benchtop manual to be kept within reach at all times when working with CD players.
Download or read book Making Strategy written by Colin Eden and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book approaches strategy-making in a way that is designed to assist most organizations develop strategy appropriate to their size, purpose and resources. It provides a much-needed guide to the strategy-making process by: elaborating the key concepts and theories of strategic management; by illustrating through case vignettes the issues inherent in the process of strategy-making; and by providing extensive and detailed practical guidelines on the methods, techniques and tools employed in the case vignettes. Key themes explored are: the crucial significance of political feasibility; the role of participation; emphasis on stakeholder management; thinking about alternative futures within the overall process of stra
Download or read book Trends in Applied Knowledge Based Systems and Data Science written by Hamido Fujita and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 1019 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2016, held in Morioka, Japan, in August 2-4, 2016. The 80 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 168 submissions. They are organized in topical sections: data science; knowledge base systems; natural language processing and sentiment analysis; semantic Web and social networks; computer vision; medical diagnosis system and bio-informatics; applied neural networks; innovations in intelligent systems and applications; decision support systems; adaptive control; soft computing and multi-agent systems; evolutionary algorithms and heuristic search; system integration for real-life applications.
Download or read book Divine Games written by Steven J. Brams and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A game-theoretical analysis of interactions between a human being and an omnipotent and omniscient godlike being highlights the inherent unknowability of the latter's superiority. In Divine Games, Steven Brams analyzes games that a human being might play with an omnipotent and omniscient godlike being. Drawing on game theory and his own theory of moves, Brams combines the analysis of thorny theological questions, suggested by Pascal's wager (which considers the rewards and penalties associated with belief or nonbelief in God) and Newcomb's problem (in which a godlike being has near omniscience) with the analysis of several stories from the Hebrew Bible. Almost all of these stories involve conflict between God or a surrogate and a human player; their representation as games raises fundamental questions about God's superiority. In some games God appears vulnerable (after Adam and Eve eat the forbidden fruit in defiance of His command), in other games his actions seem morally dubious (when He subjects Abraham and Job to extreme tests of their faith), and in still other games He has a propensity to hold grudges (in preventing Moses from entering the Promised Land and in undermining the kingship of Saul). If the behavior of a superior being is indistinguishable from that of an ordinary human being, his existence would appear undecidable, or inherently unknowable. Consequently, Brams argues that keeping an open mind about the existence of a superior being is an appropriate theological stance.
Download or read book Great Games With Numbers and Words written by Steven Haney and published by Ready-Ed Publications. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Games with Numbers and Words will captivate the interest of your students by introducing these hands-on curriculum linked games into your Maths and English lessons. All of the games in Great Games with Numbers and Words are quick and easy to set up as they require very little equipment and space – primary children will be able to play them with minimal supervision as the instructions are clear and simple. The games have also been designed so that they can be easily adapted to suit a range of ages and abilities. Written by an experienced teacher, all of the games have been tried and tested in the classroom with great success. This teacher-friendly resource is guaranteed to hold the attention of all of your students.
Download or read book Multiagent System Technologies written by Ralph Bergmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th German Conference on Multiagent Systems Technologies, MATES 2008, held in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in September 2008 - co-located with the 31st German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2008. The 16 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The papers present and discuss the latest advances of research and development in the area of autonomous agents and multiagent systems ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to applications in various fields.
Download or read book Outcastia Campaign Setting Book II Player s Guidebook written by Nitehawk Interactive Games and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've journeyed through the land in Book I and learned what you need to about the realm, now dive head first into the meat of this Campaign Setting with newly designed gaming elements that will help you to make your mark in the "Land of Dragons". This book includes: Races both unique and familiar. Eight races to choose from with subraces for most for a total of 28 choices to add to your arsenal of races we've already given you in the AHB, classes to delight both the power player and the new gamer alike with 9 to choose from and even a new NPC class for your CM, three new magic domains for the spellcaster inside of you with loads of new spells, as well as new skills, feats, and equipment. With this book you will have everything you need to play in the realm of Outcastia (and beyond). Even CMs will have most everything they will need...for now. So what are you waiting for? Grab some paper and pencils. Bring out that dice. Rev up your imagination and travel to a land of magic and mayhem. Your journey awaits.
