In future energy systems, peaks in the daily electricity generation and consumption are expected to increase. The “smart grid” concept aims to maintain high levels of efficiency in the energy system by establishing distributed intelligence. Software agents (operating on devices with unknown computational capabilities) can implement dynamic and autonomous decision making about energy usage and g...

We propose a new family of market-based distributed planning algorithms for collaborative multi-agent systems with complex shared constraints. Such constraints tightly couple the agents together, and appear in problems ranging from task or resource allocation to collision avoidance. While it is not immediately obvious, a wide variety of constraints can in fact be reduced to generalized resource...

An important challenge faced by media broadcasting companies is how to allocate limited advertising space between upfront contracts and the spot market (referred to in advertising as the scatter market), in order to maximize profits and meet contractual commitments. We develop stylized optimization models of airtime capacity planning and allocation across multiple clients under audience uncerta...

Devices that integrate multiple functions together are popular in consumer electronic markets. Examples include the cellular phone that takes digital pictures and plays MP3’s, the PDA with cell phone, and multi-function office machines. We describe these multi-function devices as fusion products since they fuse together products which traditionally stand alone in the marketplace. In this paper,...

this research was conducted to provide a desired pattern based on the relationship between entrepreneurial strategy and the dimensions of corporate entrepreneurial orientations in physical education organization. predictive variables were entrepreneurial strategy components (intensity of environmental investigation, flexibility of planning, planning vision, planning focus and control) and the c...

This article comes from research that investigated the learning and career transitions of those disadvantaged in the labour market. It resulted in the development of a four component model to enable disadvantaged groups navigate learning and career transitions. The four components of the model include: the self-concept; learning and recognition; career and life planning; and new literacies. The...

At the forefront of the argument for government-directed land use planning is the notion that ‘citizen participation’ in urban land use decisions can avoid the problems associated with bureaucratic governance and tackle widespread instances of ‘market failure’. Using illustrations from the British land use planning system this paper argues that participatory planning models are insufficiently a...

Well-developed strategic marketing planning is the essential prerequisite for establishment of the right and unique competitive advantage. Typical market, however, is a heterogeneous and decentralized structure with natural involvement of individual or group subjectivity and irrationality. These features cannot be fully expressed with one-shot rigorous formal models based on, e.g. mathematics, ...