The area of automated negotiation has been of particular interest in AI due to the important role negotiations play in facilitating understanding and the achievement of cooperation among entities with differing interests, whether they be individuals, organizations, governments,. or automated agents. A strategic model for negotiation of alternative offers, is presented with specific application ...

The ability to respond eeectively and eeciently to crisis is an important objective in many problem-solving domains. In this paper, we identify three central elements of crisis: threat, urgency, and uncertainty. We deene the space of competent problem solvers for crisis response through a task analysis (Newell and Si-mon, 1972). Speciically, we bound the space of problem solvers by determining ...

The present paper studies the BP crisis management of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster which occurred on April 20 th , 2010. The authors content-analysed a large amount of secondary data from various sources, used the three-phase crisis management model and found that BP management of this crisis failed at many levels. The authors mainly highlighted four lessons relating to the connection between...

BACKGROUND The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) increased levels of financial strain, especially in those of low socioeconomic status (SES). Financial strain can affect smoking behaviour. This study examines socioeconomic inequalities in current smoking and smoking cessation in The Netherlands before and during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). METHODS Participants were 66,960 Dutch adults (≥ 1...

working with mentally ill chemical abusers. Roberts’ model will be combined with strengths perspective and brief solution-focused therapy to provide an effective framework for addressing the unique needs of mentally ill chemical abusers within a managed care treatment environment. This article will present three case examples and one impromptu intervention to demonstrate methods for clinicians ...

This paper investigates the interdependence of US dollar exchange rates expressed in other major currencies. Focusing on different phases of the Global financial crisis (GFC) and the Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crisis (ESDC), we adopt a dynamic conditional correlation model into a multivariate Fractionally Integrated Asymmetric Power ARCH (FIAPARCH) framework, during the period 2004–2011. The findi...

aim to offer immediate help to those who most need it. Usually, there is no urge to start a systematic registration on demographic data of clients and on characteristics of interventions. Nevertheless, there is a growing necessity to do so. Structured gathering of information can help professionals to obtain insight in the age, sex and number of clients they see, in the usefulness of the interv...

Burrow-nesting petrels use their well-developed sense of smell for foraging, homing to their nest, and mate recognition. The chicks of burrow-nesting petrels can apparently learn odours associated with prey while still in the nest, but the development of individual-specific odour recognition is less well understood. We used a simple two-choice test to determine whether 4- to 6-week-old chicks o...

Growth theory has identified a plethora of determinants for development; however, the more carefully economists study institutions, the more crucial they seem to become for the growth process. For decades economists focused on physical/human capital as well as technical change as sources of the wealth of nations. Crises and failed transition experiments in the 1990s brought to light that even t...