We examine the effects of various political campaign activities on voter preferences in the domain of US Presidential elections. We construct a comprehensive data set that covers the three most recent elections, with detailed records of voter preferences at the state-week level over an election period. We include various types of the most frequently utilized marketing instruments: two forms of ...

In many interactive decision making scenarios there is often no solution that satisfies all of the user’s preferences. The decision process can be helped by providing explanations. Relaxations show sets of consistent preferences and, thus, indicate which preferences can be enforced, while exclusion sets show which preferences can be relaxed to obtain a solution. We propose a new approach to exp...

We study a model in which voters choose between two candidates on the basis of both ideology and competence. While the ideology of the candidates is commonly known, voters are imperfectly informed about competence. Voter preferences, however, are such that it is a dominant strategy to vote according to ideology alone. When voting is compulsory, the candidate of the majority ideology prevails an...

We prove that a universal preference type space exists under much more general conditions than those postulated by Epstein and Wang (1996). To wit, it is enough that preferences can be encoded by a countable collection of continuous functionals, while the preferences themselves need not necessarily be continuous or regular, like, e.g., in the case of lexicographic preferences. The proof relies ...

Recent research has found drastic differences across gender in how performance and preferences are affected by competition. In light of these, this study addresses how gender affects the use of competitive compensation. When given information about worker ability, male managers, but not female managers, are reluctant to choose the tournament for a female worker. The data also show that even tho...

The purpose of study was comparison of conflict management strategies of physical education office managers based on their some demographic characteristics. All of managers of physical education office of Mazandaran (n = 15) and Guilan (n = 16) province and their assistant [(n = 15) and (n =16) respectively] response to Putnam and Wilson’s “organizational communication conflict instrument (OCCI...

Excerpt] Scheduling front-line service providers is a constant challenge for hospitality managers, given the inevitable tradeoff between service standards and operating expense. Traditional employee scheduling typically applies a cost-minimization approach to specify the level of front-line service providers who will be available to meet periodic demand. That cost includes the opportunity cost ...

Th is paper reports research on service branding carried out on the prestigious Norwegian Coastal Voyage, or Hurtigruten, which is its brand name. Th e primary research instrument employed in the research was semi-structured in-depth interviews with managers and service personnel previously and presently employed by the shipping line Hurtigruten ASA. Th e paper shows that a set of factors infl ...

The Möbius-Kantor map {4 + 4, 3} [CMo, §8.8, 8.9] is a regular orientable map of type {8, 3} and genus 2. It is a 2-sheeted covering of the cube {4, 3}, branched over the centers of its six faces, each of which lifts to an octagonal face. Its (orientation-preserving) automorphism group is isomorphic to GL2(3), a double covering of the automorphism group PGL2(3) ∼= S4 of the cube. The aim of thi...

This paper describes a multi-agent learning approach to adaptation to users' preferences realized by an interface agency. Using a contract-net-based negotiation technique, agents as contractors as well as managers negotiate with each other to pursue the overall goal of dynamic user adaptation. By learning from indirect user feedback, the adjustment of internal credit vectors and the assignment ...