Building Coalitions: Coalition Facilitator Guide

Strength in numbers: a guide to building effective Medicare advocacy coalitions.

Coalition Agents Experiment: Multiagent Cooperation in International Coalitions

increases confusion in the opponent’s mind. This process is command-led, with human decision making primary and technology playing a secondary role. Shared understanding and information superiority are key enablers in this process and are fundamental to network-centric warfare (www.dodccrp.org). In addressing interoperability requirements, we must also address data security, control over semitr...

JACK: A System for Building Holonic Coalitions

Coalitions between military and non-government organisations to manage operations other than war (OOTW), e.g. earthquake evacuations or food distribution to refugees require sophisticated knowledge management, decentralised control, and the ability to conduct flexible negotiations. Holonic systems are a research topic well suited to these requirements as they treat each organisation as an auton...

Building allies coalitions: Why formation matters.

This article describes how formation of the Allies Against Asthma coalitions was influenced by community context, history, leadership, membership, structure, processes, and other factors. Based on member surveys, key informant interviews, and self-assessment tools, results indicate that three coalitions developed from existing coalitions, and four formed in response to funding. The coalitions t...

Coalition building in a spatial economy

We analyze the possibility and consequences of coalition-formation amongst suppliers of retail services. We first provide a framework in which producers of Substitutes have an incentive to Cluster in market places in order to attract consumers dispersed in space. Owing to spatial externalities, the resulting spatial equilibrium can be welfare suboptimal. We characterize regimes in which we find...