The increasing complexity of decision making in a severely dynamic competitive environment of the universe has urged the wise managers to have relevant strategic plans for their firms. Strategy is not formulated from one criterion but from multiple criteria in environmental scanning, and often, considering all of them is not possible. A list of criteria utilizing Delphi was selected by consu...

Crockett, Spear and Sunder [2005b] propose an algorithm whereby boundedly rational agents with standard neoclassical preferences learn competitive equilibrium in a repeated static exchange economy. In this paper a laboratory market is instituted to examine the hypothesis that people are at least as sophisticated as these agents. The adopted market institution strongly restricts the space of age...

The success or failure of students is a concern for every academic institution, college, university, governments and students themselves. Several approaches have been researched to address this concern. In this paper, a view is held that when a student enters a university or college or an academic institution, he or she enters an academic environment. The academic environment is unique concept ...

Single Sign-On is widely deployed in the French Education/Research community, especially CAS [1]. In addition to improving the security, it allows users to authenticate once and use several web applications, as long as the applications are proposed by their institution. New projects in France now encourage the cooperation between universities, making them share web resources (documents and appl...

Retractions of scientific articles are becoming the most relevant institution for making sense of scientific misconduct. An increasing number of retracted articles, mainly attributed to misconduct, is currently providing a new empirical basis for research about scientific misconduct. This article reviews the relevant research literature from an interdisciplinary context. Furthermore, the result...

INTRODUCTION International guidelines are ambivalent regarding the recommendations for the management of clinical stage 1 (CS1) seminoma. PATIENTS AND METHODS During 2008-2013, 1,050 patients with seminoma CS1 were prospectively registered with regard to assessing management modality (radiotherapy, carboplatin, surveillance). Associations with tumor size, rete testis invasion, age, year of di...

Nowadays multi-agent applications are more and more openness. That brings the risk to deal with to autonomous agents i.e. agents not respecting the society rules. To insure a coherent behaviour the application require tools to control and regulate the system overall functioning. Moreover they should provide the system with mechanisms to enforce global laws on the autonomous agents operating in ...

Though I was in the service of the institution f?r only forty years, I have known it all my life. % father began his work there in 1864, and my earliest recollection is going there to an entertainment. I am to try and tell you of the changes in trends and attitudes which I have noticed during my forty years. They are the memories of a " has been ". After qualifying as a medical man, I had five ...

Ontology has an important role in Multi-Agent Systems communication once it provides a vocabulary to be used in the communication between agents. It is hard to find out two agents using precisely the same vocabulary. They usually have a heterogeneous private vocabulary defined in their own private ontology. In order to provide help in the conversation among different agents, we are proposing wh...