The article examines the process of intensive development and globalisation restaurant business in Ukraine as a part service sector economy exposed to many factors different strength, duration areas influence context European integration. is devoted consideration positive negative influencing hospitality. Among them are extensive intensive. hotel-restaurant business, its impact on quality life ...

In this paper we present our findings from a series of interviews with companies developing web applications, investigating how quality issues are managed when developing web applications in a rush-to-market and competitive environment. Our findings suggest that requirement practises are communication intensive, that companies perceive quality attributes related to a good user experience import...

in this study, under the constraint of resource-saving and environment-friendliness objective, based on multi-agent genetic algorithm, multi-objective spatial optimization (moso) model for land use allocation was developed from the view of simulating the biological autonomous adaptability to environment and the competitive-cooperative relationship. the model was applied to solve the practical m...

This report will be comparing and criticising different approaches of incorporating competition and cooperation within an environment to combat a lack of intrinsic motivation. While there have been many studies conducted on the effectiveness of competition and cooperation on motivation and other factors, there is still much debate on which methods are the best. I will be looking at six differen...

We introduce dTank, a competitive environment, as useful for architectural comparisons of competitive agents and comparisons of human and agent behavior. dTank, a Java-based simulation, was designed to facilitate these forms of holistic comparison of emergent behavior. We present several models built using several cognitive and agent architectures (Java, Jess, and Soar), and compare them agains...

Ecological psychology teaches us that intelligence exists in an environment. We explore the combination of competitive evolution, and an interactive environment. A population of network controller weights are evolved, and robots using those weights compete in a hockey-like game. The behavior produced is neither as consistent nor as complex as hoped for, and a variety of causes, and potential re...

This chapter introduces the learner to the meaning of competitive advantage and posits that a firm’s strategy is defined as the managers’ theory about how to gain and sustain competitive advantage. The manner in which a firm creates its competitive advantage by creating more economic value than its rivals, and explains that profitability depends upon value, price, and costs is demonstrated. The...