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Economic and Social Impacts of Self-Help Groups in India

Argumentative alternating offers

This paper presents an argumentative version of the well known alternating offers negotiation protocol. The negotiation mechanism is based on an abstract preference based argumentation framework where both epistemic and practical arguments are taken into consideration in order to decide about different strategic issues. Such issues are the offer that is proposed at each round, acceptance or ref...

What Genetics Offers Geobiology

For over 50 years, the Parker Brothers’ board game “Clue” has maintained its position as the classic family detective game. A murder has been committed in the mansion, but we don’t know where, by whom, or how. Was it Professor Plum in the study with a knife, or Miss Scarlett in the ballroom with a candlestick? Through rolls of the dice, fragments of information patiently accumulated piece-by-pi...

Mining Edgar Tender Offers

This paper describes how use the HTMLEditorKit to perform web data mining on EDGAR (Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system). EDGAR is the SEC’s (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) means of automating the collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions. Some entities are regulated by the SEC (e.g. publicly traded firms) and are required, by la...

Possibly-Final Offers

A price-setting seller faces a buyer with unknown reservation value. We show that if the buyer is sufficiently risk averse, the seller can benefit from employing a Possibly-Final Offer (PFO) strategy. In a PFO, if the buyer rejects the seller’s initial offer the seller sometimes terminates the interaction. If the seller does not terminate, he follows up with a subsequent, more attractive offer....