OBJECTIVE To describe changes in hospitals' competitive strategies, specifically the relative emphasis placed on strategies for competing along price and nonprice (i.e., service, amenities, perceived quality) dimensions, and the reasons for any observed shifts. METHODS This study uses data gathered through the Community Tracking Study site visits, a longitudinal study of a nationally represen...

In this study, an optimization model is proposed to design a Global Supply Chain (GSC) for a medical device manufacturer under disruption in the presence of pre-existing competitors and price inelasticity of demand. Therefore, static competition between the distributors’ facilities to more efficiently gain a further share in market of Economic Cooperation Organization trade agreement (ECOTA) is...

Our objective is to determine the evolutionarily stable strategy [14] supposed to drive the behavior of foragers competing for a common patchily distributed resource [16]. Compared to [18], the innovation lies in the fact that random arrival times are allowed. In this first part, we investigate scramble competition: the game still yields simple Charnov-like strategies [4]. Thus we attempt to co...

A variety of foreign-led economies has emerged in Central and Eastern Europe in the late nineties. This paper explains the emergence of the competition state in the region and analyzes its political support and institutional underpinning. While the structural power of transnational capital and integration into the European regulatory framework had major roles in steering the state into the comp...

Background. Studies in this domain help focus on the techniques with high application to improve the point attainment, without providing points for the other opponents. Objectives. The purpose of this study was to analyze and investigate the most common scoring techniques used and the highest intensity competition times that have been fulfilled by the champions of the World Karate Leagues 2019...

92 AI MAGAZINE ■ The Trading Agent Competition (TAC) has now become an annual fixture since its inception in 2000. The competition was conceived with the objective of studying automated trading strategies by focusing the research community on the development of competing solutions to a common trading scenario. The success of past TAC events has motivated broadening the scope of the competition ...

This paper introduced the application of game theory in electricity power market. Moreover, the electricity pool model and the merit order dispatch method was introduced. In pool mode, participants are trying to maximize their benefit via competition with each other. Hence the market can be regarded as a non-cooperative game, especially, the electrical supply competition. Players (generators) c...

In this paper, we explore the idea of simulated experimental analysis for challenge scenarios in robotics using the search and secure problem from the Multi Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge (MAGIC). The MAGIC problem requires a team of heterogeneous robots to locate, classify, and secure a number of targets in an urban environment with indoor and outdoor areas. We introduce a f...