The Ecuadorian Amazon is considered a biodiverse region, and at the same time contains largest number of oil blocks oilfields in country. Oil exploitation requires implementation facilities related infrastructure, such as roads, water, energy supply, for operation. These large engineering works can alter dynamics Amazonian natural ecosystems. This paper analyzes land use cover (LULC) change rel...

Russian Federation’s competitiveness is largely interconnected with the state investment policy’s development level. However, need for investments in high-quality infrastructure, on one hand, and corresponding budget funds deficit, other highlight problem of business entities’ cooperation by means concession. At same time there are many barriers, which hinder concession’s consecutive developmen...

This paper presents an argumentative version of the well known alternating offers negotiation protocol. The negotiation mechanism is based on an abstract preference based argumentation framework where both epistemic and practical arguments are taken into consideration in order to decide about different strategic issues. Such issues are the offer that is proposed at each round, acceptance or ref...

We examine the optimal concession contract for an infrastructure that generates both user fee revenue and ancillary commercial revenue. For example, airports charge user fees to passengers and airlines (aviation revenue) and collect revenue from shops, restaurants, parking lots and hotels (non-aviation revenue). While passenger flow and the demand for the infrastructure are exogenous, the deman...

This paper presents a new negotiation model for designing Marketand Behavior-driven Negotiation Agents (MBDNAs) that address computational grid resource allocation problem. To determine the amount of concession for each trading cycle, the MBDNAs are guided by six factors: (1) number of negotiator’s trading partners, (2) number of negotiator’s competitors, (3) negotiator’s time preference, (4) f...