A multi-player connict is modelled as a knockout tournament. In a contest between two individuals who use behaviours x and y there is a probability that each will win and a cost incurred by the loser; both of which depends on x and y. Groups of individuals resolve their disputes in the form of a knockout tournament in which in each round the remaining contestants form pairs who contest, with wi...

BACKGROUND This paper, which draws upon an Emancipatory Action Research (EAR) approach, unearths how the complexities of context influence the realities of nursing practice. While the intention of the project was to identify and change factors in the practice context that inhibit effective person-centred pain management practices with older people (65 years or older), reflective critical engage...

For two decades economic and social stability in China's rural areas has been based on the successful evolution of township village enterprises. These enterprises, however, feature property rights structures which according to conventional property rights theory should make these enterprises highly inefficient and prone to quick dissolution. But as closer analysis indicates, exactly these ambig...

The reform of public transport introduced in the Netherlands in 2001 is showing its first interesting results as about two third of the country (excluding the four largest agglomerations) has now been submitted to competitive tendering. Differently from many competitive regimes introduced in other parts of Europe, the Dutch regime aims at stimulating innovation in public transport. To this effe...

Despite the potential benefits of TQM, its application in healthcare organisations encountered difficulties. The main purpose of this study is to develop a model of quality management for healthcare organisations. Thirty quality management experts were approached by using a Delphi method to specify the components of an appropriate quality management model. The core research led to the developme...

This paper discusses the emerging area of autonomic computing and its implications for the evolution of faultmanagement systems. Particular emphasis is placed on the concept of event correlation and its role in system self-management. A new correlation analysis tool to assist with the development, management and maintenance of correlation rules and beliefs is described.

This paper reviews the evolution of some major open source SNMP tools over the last decade. It focusses on open source packages that are widely used and which have shaped some of the SNMP technology. The paper identifies some lessons that can be learned.

The multiobject mechanism is a pertinent way to implement specialization in an object database and differs from the classical mechanism used in most object-oriented database systems. It supports multiple instantiation, automatic classification and object migration. Consequently it is well suited to take into account schema evolution. It makes schema changes more pertinent, easier to implement, ...

The Evolution of Cooperation in Business Dan Ladley, University of Leicester Ian Wilkinson, University of Sydney and University of Southern Denmark Louise Young, University of Western Sydney and University of Southern Denmark Draft: December 2011 (Under review at JEBO) ABSTRACT The development of cooperative relations within and between firms plays an important role in the successful implementa...

In this article amaturitymodel for themanagementof transdisciplinaryknowledge ispresented, although research nowadays is transdisciplinary the different maturity models proposed in the literature are oriented towards interdisciplinary knowledgemanagement, and, at most, they are oriented towardmultidisciplinary knowledge management. The objective is proposing an evolutionary model which accepts ...