Coral reef ecosystems provide many functions, services and goods to coastal populations, especially in the developing world. A variety of anthropogenic practices threatens reef health and therefore jeopardises the benefits flowing from these services and goods. These threats range from local pollution, sedimentation, destructive fishing practices and coral mining to global issues like coral ble...

1. Business Marketing: Nature and Uniqueness Industrial marketing or the new term, business marketing, is the marketing of goods and services to industrial customers for use, in turn, in their own production of goods and services. The marketing of business goods and consumer goods have two attributes in common: a purchase is the usual outcome of the process and the result derives from some deci...

Many policies in the United States are jointly determined by federal and state actions. In the game theoretic model offered here, politicians in both the state and national governments seek credit for providing goods desired by the public and avoid blame for the taxes necessary to provide the goods. In line with Peterson’s (1995) theory of functional federalism, the level of government that is ...

Representing approximately 12% of GDP across OECD countries, public procurement is an important pillar service delivery. However, successful threatened by risks in areas as diverse compliance, sustainability, and operations. Governments can address these challenges identifying, assessing, treating, monitoring throughout the process. To do so, they use general tools such risk registers matrices,...

In the article we propose a model of a centralised support system for negotiation and decision making of software agents. The main entity in our model is represented by a negotiation center. The role of the center is to manage negotiation and support decision-making process of individual agents. Negotiation is based on a Cut Cake algorithm. Presented decision support techniques utilise the theo...