A stud y to determine whether there are any significant difTerences in perspectives of IT and business managers wit h regard to the factors which contribute to successfu l strategic ali gnment using Henderson and venkatraman's strategic ali gnment model as the research framework has been rcported .. A general survey was undertaken over a range of industrics and resu lt s indicate th at the two ...

detail exactly how sparse medical care was in Scotland. Even if it were available, the authors show that the stringency of the Scottish Poor Law may have denied access to it. One of their tables (9.B) "shows how much was actually spent on doctors per head of the population on the poor roll. The Scottish average was £0.0 154, or no more than 3.d per pauper per year in the old money" (p. 217). Th...

One of the most frequently used criticism about game theory is that it is based on models in which moves and payoff are fixed in advance. In this paper we introduce a new game theoretic model in which agents can not build good strategies without analysing payoff matrices. In this agents interactions modelling iterated game we show that a well reputed notion of micro-economics, Nash equilibrium,...

English. This paper presents the steps undertaken for building a word formation lexicon for Latin. The types of word formation rules are discussed and the semiautomatic procedure to pair their input and output lexical items is evaluated. An on-line graphical query system to access the lexicon is described as well. Italiano. Questo articolo presenta le procedure di realizzazione di un lessico mo...

This paper demonstrates that multi-agent systems have the capacity to model a region in all its complexity. An example is developed to show that these tools are not only capable of spatializing and distributing the behaviour of individuals, but above all, that they allow individuals to integrate different perceptions of space as well as the constraints imposed on them by a community. A dialecti...

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Non-player characters in games generally lack believability and deep interactivity. The AI system Comme il Faut begins to tackle this by modeling social state and behaviors for game characters. The player initiates social exchanges and the dialog and outcome are generated and displayed in their entirety. In this paper we present a model called social practices to extend Comme il Faut. Social pr...