Abstract Value pluralism is the metaphysical thesis that there a plurality of values at fundamental level evaluative domain. monism, on other hand, claim just one value. Pluralists, it commonly argued, have an edge over monists when comes to accounting for conspicuous heterogeneity domain and rationality regretting well-justified decisions. Monists, in turn, seem provide far more plausible acco...

Gamification, roughly the use of game-like elements to motivate us achieve practical ends “in real world,” makes large promises. According Jane McGonigal, gamification can save world by channelling amazing motivational power gaming into pro-social causes ranging from alienation our work global resource scarcity and feeding hungry (McGonigal 2011). Even much more modest aims like improving perso...

Research on value congruence has attempted to explain why value congruence leads to positive outcomes, but few of these explanations have been tested empirically. In this article, the authors develop and test a theoretical model that integrates 4 key explanations of value congruence effects, which are framed in terms of communication, predictability, interpersonal attraction, and trust. These c...

project scheduling   net present value   we consider a project scheduling problem with permitted tardiness and discrete time/resource trade-offs under maximum net present value objective. in this problem, a project consists of a set of sequential phases such that each phase contains one or more sub-projects including activities interrelated by finish-start-type precedence relations with a time ...