Panelists provoke thoughts and questions relative to whether we know enough about the changing patterns of insured mortality to evaluate future business. Not only do we have the mortality patterns of the typical insured population changing, but we also have the basic makeup of this population changing at the same time. The panelists present their thoughts on how to address our need to know more...

Robots act upon and perceive the world from a particular perspective. It is important to recognize this relativity to perspective if one is not to be overly demanding in specifying what they need to know in order to be able to achieve goals through action. In this paper, we show how a formal theory of knowledge and action proposed in (Lesperance 1989) can be used to formalize several kinds of s...

How much does one need to know about the characteristics of heterogeneous agents in order to position them correctly in an organizational structure? This question is addressed in a project selection framework with error{prone decision{makers.

Here we outline the meaning of the term alternative reproductive tactics, or ARTs, and discuss why the existence of ARTs is so widespread in animals. We ask what we need to know to understand the evolution of ARTs and the importance of general principles such as frequency dependence, density dependence, and condition dependence, and what we need to know about proximate mechanisms involved in th...

Virtual collaboration is an essential skill in today’s organizations, but where and how do people learn it? What do we know about teaching and learning with respect to virtual collaboration? We examined this question from multiple perspectives: (1) best practices in virtual teams, in order to provide the content of what might be taught about virtual collaboration; (2) best practices in teaching...

For the next two weeks, I will discuss some of the concepts of random sample which we use very frequently. These are certainly not the central focus of this course, but it is extremely important for all of us to know these concepts. We have to use these ideas throughout this quarter. First we need to know what do we mean by a random sample. Definition: The random variables X1, ..., Xn together ...

In order to analyze and improve knowledge management (KM) initiatives, organizations must be enabled to systematically look into the processes of organizational knowledge transfer. They need to know what roles are involved in these processes and what actions are performed. We propose that only if the building blocks of organizational knowledge transfer are known, reasonable indetail analyses of...

Managers involve their companies in different types of business relationships for various reasons. These include but are not limited to efficiency gains, innovation, and influencing other organizations. In the age of digitization, managers have witnessed new ways to manage business relationships as the number of digital and electronic commerce tools have mushroomed. Business relationships digit...

Some people may be laughing when looking at you reading in your spare time. Some may be admired of you. And some may want be like you who have reading hobby. What about your own feel? Have you felt right? Reading is a need and a hobby at once. This condition is the on that will make you feel that you must read. If you know are looking for the book enPDFd bandits on the information superhighway ...