Modern organizations face many significant challenges because of turbulent environments and a competitive global economy. Among these challenges are the use of information and communication technology (ICT), a multicultural workforce, and organizational designs that involve global virtual teams. Ad hoc teams create both opportunities and challenges for organizations and many organizations are t...

The competitive survival of many organizations depends on delivering projects on time and on budget. These firms face decisions concerning how to scale the size of work teams. Larger teams can usually complete tasks more quickly, but the advantages associated with adding workers are often accompanied by various disadvantages (such as the increased burden of coordinating efforts). We note severa...

The Influence of Interpersonal Flexibility on Work Team Conflict over Time. (August 2004) Frank Godard Baugh, B.S., William Carey College; M.S., University of Southern Mississippi Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Daniel Brossart Today a majority of business organizations utilize work team designs in an effort to gain a competitive edge. A multitude of factors exert varying levels of influence o...

AI researchers are striving to build complex multi-agent worlds with intended applications ranging from the RoboCup robotic soccer tournaments, to interactive virtual theatre, to large-scale real-world battlefield simulations. Agent tracking monitoring other agent’s actions and inferring their higher-level goals and intentions is a central requirement in such worlds. While previous work has mos...

This paper describes a Bayesian approximation method to obtain online ranking algorithms for games with multiple teams and multiple players. Recently for Internet games large online ranking systems are much needed. We consider game models in which a k-team game is treated as several two-team games. By approximating the expectation of teams’ (or players’) performances, we derive simple analytic ...

To aid the development of the robotic soccer simulation league team RoboLog-2000, a method for the specification of multi-agent teams by statecharts has been introduced. The results in the last years competitions showed that though the team was competitive, it did not behave adaptive in unknown situations. The design of adaptive agents with this method is possible, but not in a straightforward ...

In this paper, we are interested in the informational value of Major League Baseball (MLB) managerial compensation on a team’s performance. Using data on manager’s contracts, team performance, and team and manager characteristics, first, we determine the variables that influence a manager's salary. Then, we use a forecasting-type analysis to study the determinants of a manager’s performance, me...

In this working notes paper the contribution of the LIG team (partnership between Univ. Grenoble Alpes and Ozyegin University) to the Multimodal Person Discovery in Broadcast TV task in MediaEval 2015 is presented. The task focused on unsupervised learning techniques. Two different approaches were submitted by the team. In the first one, new features for face and speech modalities were tested. ...