The changing climate in supply chain management, driven by technological trends, increased competition , demand pressure, globalization and outsourcing has led companies to be more receptive to forming coalitions while taking a broader strategic view of the marketplace. The structure of a transport coalition is an important issue influencing the life cycle of such relationships. This structure ...

Team formation is a core problem in AI. Remarkably, little prior work has addressed the problem of mechanism design for team formation, accounting for the need to elicit agents’ preferences over potential teammates. Coalition formation in the related hedonic games has received much attention, but only from the perspective of coalition stability, with little emphasis on the mechanism design obje...

As the Services move to transform joint and coalition operations, a new capability being contemplated for the transformed forces is synchronizing manned-combat-vehicle and unmanned-combat-vehicle target engagements. However, we are just beginning to work out the details for implementing such a symphony of coordinated human and machine decisions and actions. One challenge in realizing an impleme...

Large state-by-state variations exist in location of dying and level of aggressive treatment during the final phase of life. This paper describes Oregon's incremental gains toward improving advance planning for end-of-life care in a state with the lowest rate of in-hospital deaths. Action strategies have required data gathering and reporting, and coalition building with a focus on systems chang...

In most parliamentary democracies, governments must maintain the confidence of a single legislative chamber only. But in bicameral parliaments, upper chambers can affect the fortunes of government policy proposals. Recent work shows that parliamentary governments that lack control over the upper house also tend to collapse sooner than those with upper-house majorities. In this article, we show ...

Abstract Consensus is a key feature of the European Union. In Parliament, most legislation adopted by grand coalition between left and right. While this trans-partisan cooperation has always been informal, epp s&d groups agreed on formal political in 2014. For first time ep ’s history, was based policy programme negotiated two groups’ leadership. Based roll-call vote data, paper aims to und...