Research on self-serving biases in judgments and decision-making suggests that individuals first evaluate the outcomes they get, and then the procedures by which these outcomes were obtained. Evidence also suggests that the appraisal of the former (outcome favorability) can bias the appraisal of the latter (procedural fairness). We investigated the nature of the emotions that are elicited by th...

Lifelong competence development is a fundamental premise for an information society, as well as major aim and challenge. Facing the variety of learning programs and qualification measures, problems emerge in supporting lifelong learning. Efficient competence development necessitates providing learners with learning opportunities which are appropriate for their current knowledge and for their in...

A major challenge in todays fast pace world is the acquisition of competence in a timely and efficient manner, whilst keeping the individual highly motivated. This paper presents a novel based on the use of serious games driven by Case Based Reasoning (CBR) tailored by Threshold Concepts (TC) to present the learner with the most efficient choice of game scenarios to address their present compet...

Efficient support, in-depth modeling, and tracking of the development of individual competence is, undoubtedly, a major challenge for interdisciplinary research and development. From our viewpoint, a major problem is the often unclear and sometimes vague approach to competence. Often it is assumed that competence can directly be assessed. Many definitions of competence, however, agree that comp...

Overlapping Coalition Formation (OCF) games [3, 4] are cooperative games where the players can simultaneously participate in several coalitions. Capturing the notion of stability in OCF games is a difficult task: a player may deviate by abandoning some, but not all of the coalitions he is involved in, and the crucial question is whether he then gets to keep his payoff from the unaffected coalit...

When parties bring claims under investor-state dispute settlement (“ISDS”) procedures, who should serve as decision-maker? Relevant ask the question in different settings and with criteria mind. A party a dispute, contemplating ISDS proceedings, whether by it or against it, likely will focus on qualities of particular individuals available to arbitrators. Party-appointed panelists charged appli...