Library Overhead Allowances under Government Research Agreements

Low-Overhead Continuous Monitoring of Service Level Agreements

Constant monitoring and verification of the software are required in order to assure the software meets service levels required by the service consumer are met by the service provider. We propose a new XML schema for defining service level parameters. In documents based on this schema we define parts of application to be monitored, which metric is going to be used and what are expected values. ...

Trade Agreements under Political Pressures

We study in this paper the welfare effects of different types of trade agreements and the equilibrium outcome of trade negotiation, when the objective of each government is politically motivated. We explore a three-country and three-good trade model with endogenous tariffs and export subsidies in a political economy framework. In this context, we suggest that the welfare effects of both bilater...

v-mWater: An e-Government Application for Water Rights Agreements

Nowadays, governments are increasingly taking advantage of Information and Communication Technologies to provide services over the internet (the so-called e-Government applications) to citizens, businesses, employees, and agencies. We argue that e-government services will benefit from being distributed and intelligent, and thus, that they can be modelled as Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). The field ...

Collaborative shipping under different cost-sharing agreements

We study collaborative shipping where two shippers bundle their shipments to share the same transportation vehicle (also known as co-loading). The goal of such a collaboration is to reduce the total number of transports, thereby reducing transportation costs and GHG emissions. To synchronize the replenishment of both companies, we adopt a can-order joint replenishment policy for both companies,...

Allocating Emissions Allowances - Under California's Cap-and-Trade Program