The ocean is highly impacted by human activities, and ambitious levels of science are urgently needed to support decision making in order achieve sustainability. Due the high cost risk associated with exploration monitoring time space, vast areas oceanic social ecological system remain under-sampled or unknown. Governments have recognized that no single nation can on its own fill these scientif...

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diplomacy is an institution as old as the state; and diplomats have always been alongside rulers. for most people, politics and diplomacy is a mysterious realm, full of astonishing rewards. in the common perception, politicians and diplomats were often seen as shrewd, ruthless, planner and sometimes just characters. diplomacy was also considered as a technique which did not comply with fixed ru...

Many programs have been written to play two-player games, but few for multiplayer games in which negotiation becomes important. Diplomacy is a popular board game in which players assume the roles of the major protagonists of world war one. It is a game of negotiations; alliances, promises kept and promises broken. In order to survive a player needs help from others. Knowing whom to trust, when ...