Non-cooperative dialogue behaviour has been identified as important in a variety of application areas, including education, military operations, video games and healthcare. However, it has not been addressed using statistical approaches to dialogue management, which have always been trained for co-operative dialogue. We develop and evaluate a statistical dialogue agent which learns to perform n...

This is the first draft of the entry “Game Theory” to appear in the Sage Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Science (edited by Ian Jarvie & Jesús Zamora Bonilla), Part III, Chapter 16.

Today due to increasing and evolving of electrical grids, the optimal and profitable energy production is among producers' major concerns. Thus, conventional ways of production and trading energy are being replaced by modern economical procedures. In addition, distributed energy resources (DERs) in form of renewable and conventional resources as well as responsive loads play an important role i...

Introduction: In Pharmacy Diploma Program, mathematics is known as pharmaceutical mathematics. Due to the importance of pharmaceutical mathematics in practice, it is important to have a basic mathematical skill as a basis in calculations in pharmaceutical science. Therefore, it is necessary to create a lecturing condition that enables students more active in understanding the lessons. This rese...

This paper does research on order quantity and profits of members in cooperative and non-cooperative supply chains. First, the supply and demand model of members of non-cooperative supply chains is established, and optimization research on order quantity and price variables in this model has been carried out. Then the cooperation model in returnable cooperative supply chain is built by introduc...

the study investigates factors that affect members' satisfaction of mashhad cattle husbandry cooperatives. the required data and information were collected via interviews and questionnaires from cattlemen. cattlemen of mashhad constitute the statistical population of the study. using cochran formula, 60 cattlemen were selected randomly as the sample in 2013. spss software package was used to an...