Artefact collecting: creating or destroying the archaeological record?

Cost Stickiness: Value Creating or Value Destroying (The Iranian Experience)

This research reviews and tests two contradicting notions in cost stickiness literature by empirical recognition of the consequences of cost stickiness. Cost stickiness is consistent with both rational resource planning and opportunistic incentives of manager to increase personal benefits arising from status and power. Although both mechanisms involve asymmetric retention of slack, some of the ...

Creating or Destroying Objects Plan in the Graphplan Framework

At present, intelligent planning in the Graphplan framework is a focus of artificial intelligence. While the Creating or Destroying Objects Planning (CDOP) is one unsolved problem of this field, one of the difficulties, too. In this paper, we study this planning problem and bring forward the idea of transforming objects to propositions, based on which we offer an algorithm, Creating or Destroyi...

Creating and Destroying Processes

Creating and Destroying Party Brands

Party brands are central to theories of Congressional action. While previous work assumes that a party’s brand—its long run reputation—is a direct consequence of the content of legislation, in this presentation I show how partisans from both parties use public statements to craft their own party’s reputation and to undermine their opponents party. The incentive to craft and destroy brands varie...

SAA Archaeological Record

submittals for the SAA 81st Annual Meeting in Orlando are the third largest in SAA history, and we anticipate a well-attended meeting. Although SAA’s headquarters hotel is not a “Disney Property,” it is close enough to Disney attractions to make this venue attractive to families with young children. See my previous President’s column note on childcare options in Orlando. By the 20 November clos...