Judgment Contingent Settlements

Squatter Settlements

Glossary Burgess Model Developed by Ernest W. Burgess in 1925, this modeled the urban social structure of industrialized cities based on the case of Chicago. The model consisted of a series of concentric rings around the central business district, with working-class populations living near the center where industries were located, and middle-class households living further out from the center. ...

Interconnection, Peering, and Settlements

Technology and business models share a common evolution within the Internet. To enable deployment of the technology within a service environment there is also the need to create a robust and stable business model. This tied destiny of technology and business factors is perhaps most apparent within the area of the interconnection of Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Here there is both an intera...

Self-organized settlements

In the present study we address the question of how persons or families occupy specific locations according to an attractiveness function between persons and flats. We suggest a mathematically formulated model in order to find optimal distributions of persons over flats. The model maximizes the global attractiveness of the ensemble and accounts for various conflicting situations. Its solutions ...

Bank for International Settlements

I. Conceptual studies of market liquidity Dupont, D " The effects of transaction costs on depth and spread " Gravelle, T " The market microstructure of dealership equity and government securities markets: how they differ " Muranaga, J and Shimizu, T " Market microstructure and market liquidity " Ui, T " Transparency and liquidity in securities markets " II. Empirical studies of market liquidity...

New Forms as Settlements