Cooperative Survey Research

US Geological Survey–Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

Cooperative interval games: a survey

Natural questions for people or businesses that face interval uncertainty in their data when dealing with cooperation are: Which coalitions should form? How to distribute the collective gains or costs? The theory of cooperative interval games is a suitable tool for answering these questions. This survey aims to briefly present the state-of-theart in this booming field of research and its applic...

Survey research.

For the first time in decades, conventional wisdom about survey methodology is being challenged on many fronts. The insights gained can not only help psychologists do their research better but also provide useful insights into the basics of social interaction and cognition. This chapter reviews some of the many recent advances in the literature, including the following: New findings challenge a...

Survey of cooperative inventory games and extensions

We examine cooperative games in supply-chain management termed Inventory Games. Supply-chain management has non-cooperative and cooperative interactions between the participating players. We provide a concise survey of cooperative inventory games in the form of extensions on two basic problems. For deterministic games, Economic Order Quantity-like policies with joint replenishment are of primar...

A Survey of Cooperative Backup Mechanisms

Storage capacity, like computing power, follows its Moore’s law and grows dramatically. Consequently, the need for data backup services increases. The domain of data backup was recently hit by the peer-to-peer wave: several projects propose to use a cooperative approach to the backup problem. In this paper we survey these projects, the various problems they face and the techniques they propose ...