Download or read book Why Do Neighbours Cooperate written by Ilze Ruse and published by Verlag Barbara Budrich. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiations in the European Union Council of Ministers are not only taking place within formal decision-making structures. Member states strive to find allies and coordinate their positions prior to formal negotiation meetings. They either create ad hoc coalitions to pool voting power or cooperate within more durable, institutionalised coalitions that traditionally form due to geographical proximity or among like-minded member states as task-specific coalitions on particular issues. Institutionalised coalitions bestow their members with a bargaining advantage even if they cannot generate enough voting weight to reach voting thresholds.
Download or read book The Neighbours of the European Union s Neighbours written by Sieglinde Gstöhl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should the European Neighbourhood Policy stop at the borders of the European Union’s immediate neighbouring countries? This book is the first full length study of the ’neighbours of the EU’s neighbours’, a concept originally introduced by the European Commission with reference to Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. These regions in the EU’s broader neighbourhood are often perceived as an ’arc of crisis’ from which manifold challenges emanate for Europe. This timely book takes stock of the state of the EU’s cooperation with the neighbours of its neighbours and explores how the concept might help promote security, stability and prosperity beyond the countries which are formally part of the European Neighbourhood Policy. How can the EU create bridges between these regions? What instruments does the EU have at its disposal and how can it link them in order to respond to the challenges and overcome the current fragmentation? One of the conclusions is the suggestion to consider a pragmatic ’EU Strategy for the Neighbours of its Neighbours’ which addresses the needs of the broader EU neighbourhood in a more systematic and consistent manner and helps transform in the long run the ’arc of crisis’ into another ’ring of friends’.
Download or read book Agricultural Cooperation and Rural Credit in Europe written by American Commission to Investigate and Study Agricultural Credit and Cooperation and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation APEC written by Werner Draguhn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) was founded in 1989. Since then the forum has developed into a major player in tri-partite relations between North America, East Asia and Europe. The Seattle and Bogor Summits were landmark events suggesting to many observers a gravitational shift in the world economy and world politics. Yet the Asian financial crisis had a sobering effect on high-flying expectations as APEC contributed little to crisis management. In the light of such contradictory performance, distinguished scholars here examine APEC's achievements and failures, its role and functions in international relations, its linkages with regional organisations and the interplay between the forum and national interests of major factors in the region.
Download or read book Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization NICSO 2007 written by Natalio Krasnogor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biological and natural processes have been a continuous source of inspiration for the sciences and engineering. For instance, the work of Wiener in cybernetics was influenced by feedback control processes observable in biological systems; McCulloch and Pitts description of the artificial neuron was instigated by biological observations of neural mechanisms; the idea of survival of the fittest inspired the field of evolutionary algorithms and similarly, artificial immune systems, ant colony optimisation, automated self-assembling programming, membrane computing, etc. also have their roots in natural phenomena. The second International Workshop on Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO), was held in Acireale, Italy, during November 8-10, 2007. The aim for NICSO 2007 was to provide a forum were the latest ideas and state of the art research related to cooperative strategies for problem solving arising from Nature could be discussed. The contributions collected in this book were strictly peer reviewed by at least three members of the international programme committee, to whom we are indebted for their support and assistance. The topics covered by the contributions include several well established nature inspired techniques like Genetic Algorithms, Ant Colonies, Artificial Immune Systems, Evolutionary Robotics, Evolvable Systems, Membrane Computing, Quantum Computing, Software Self Assembly, Swarm Intelligence, etc.
Download or read book Cooperative and Distributed Intelligent Computation in Fog Computing written by Hoa Tran-Dang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative text/reference presents a detailed review of the state of the art in fog computing paradigm. In particular, the book examines a broad range of important cooperative and distributed computation algorithms, along with their design objectives and technical challenges. The coverage includes the conceptual fundamental of fog computing, its practical applications, cooperative and distributed computation algorithms using optimization, swarm intelligence, matching theory, and reinforcement learning methods. Discussions are also provided on remaining challenges and open research issues for designing and developing the efficient distributed computation solutions in the next-generation of fog-enabled IoT systems.
Download or read book International Environmental Cooperation and The Global Sustainability Capital Framework written by Chenaz B. Seelarbokus and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Environmental Cooperation and the Global Sustainability Capital Framework offers an integrated analysis of international environmental cooperation (IEC) and global sustainability. From a strategic management perspective, the book develops the Sustainability Capital Framework for IEC and global sustainability. The book provides an in-depth examination of the significance of state participation in international environmental agreements (IEAs), and analyzes the structure, life cycle, and evolution of IEAs. Through the Sustainability Capital Framework, the book delineates the core drivers, barriers, incentives, and critical success factors for IEC and global sustainability. - Develops the Sustainability Capital Framework for IEC and global sustainability from a strategic management perspective - Discusses the imperative for IEC through the novel lens of our common vulnerabilities and contingent survivability in the face of global environmental change - Presents a detailed discussion of the structure, life cycle, and evolution of IEAs - Identifies the core drivers, barriers, incentives, and critical success factors for IEC and global sustainability - Analyzes the human and environmental impacts of war, a core barrier to IEC and global sustainability - Highlights the human and moral dimensions of global sustainability
Download or read book The Cooperative Poultryman written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grid and Cooperative Computing GCC 2004 written by Hai Jin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-10-14 with total page 1047 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of five international workshops held in association with the Third International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing, GCC 2004, in Wuhan, China in October 2004. The 95 revised workshop papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 154 submissions. In accordance with the workshop titles, the papers are organized in topical sections on the information grid and knowledge grid; storage grid and technologies; information security and survivability for the grid; agents, autonomic computing, and grid enabled virtual organization; and visualization and visual steering.
Download or read book Report of the Select Committee on Agricultural Cooperation written by Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Parliment. House. Select Committee on Agricultural Co-operation and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pacific Cooperative Wool Grower written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towns in a Rural World written by Teresa de Noronha Vaz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the strategic position of towns in rural development, this book explores how they act as hotspots for knowledge creation, diffusion for vital business life and innovation, and social networks and community bonds. By doing so, towns - even the smallest - can cope with processes of socio-economic decline and promote a geographically balanced income distribution and sustainable production structure. The contributors to this volume examine how to take advantage of the great potential offered by urban areas in the rural world to favour competitiveness and encourage economic activity. Taking a European perspective, the authors identify the main socio-economic advantages generated by urbanized population settlements that small and medium-sized rural towns can provide. Although much attention is currently focused on the efficient use of scarce natural resources and land, they argue that towns have an increasingly important economic and social role to play in rural areas.
Download or read book Security and Cross border Cooperation in the EU the Black Sea Region and Southern Caucasus written by Ayça Ergun and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Proceeding of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Security and Cross/Border Cooperation in the EU, the Black Sea Region and Southern Caucasus, Ankara, Turkey, 23-24 September 2011"--Title page verso.
Download or read book Handbook for Speakers written by United States. National Recovery Administration and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Cooperation written by American Institute of Cooperation and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1968- include Land-Grant University Conference on Farmers Cooperatives. [Papers].
Download or read book Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems written by Enrique Onieva and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems, HAIS 2015, held Bilbao, Spain, June 2014. The 60 papers published in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 190 submissions. They are organized in topical sections such as data mining and knowledge discovery; video and image analysis; bio-inspired models and evolutionary computation; learning algorithms; hybrid intelligent systems for data mining and applications; classification and cluster analysis, HAIS applications.
Download or read book Neural Networks for Cooperative Control of Multiple Robot Arms written by Shuai Li and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to focus on solving cooperative control problems of multiple robot arms using different centralized or distributed neural network models, presenting methods and algorithms together with the corresponding theoretical analysis and simulated examples. It is intended for graduate students and academic and industrial researchers in the field of control, robotics, neural networks, simulation and modelling.
