Today Congratulations today to Camilla Schwind for the acceptance of her article \Causality in Action Theories" for publication in the ETAI. Both referees recommended acceptance; one of them suggested minor changes to the article. The relationship between Actions and Change research on one hand, and Planning and Scheduling research on the other may be much closer in the future than it has been ...

Over the past decades, governments have switched from a managerial to an entrepreneurial style of governance in the strengthening of certain places at the expense of others. This coevolved with an increase in inter-urban and inter-regional competition for resources, also called ‘policy competition’. The issue for regional governments is how they balance their wish to strengthen their economic s...

A main goal of the Affordable Care Act is to provide Americans with access to affordable coverage in the individual market, achieved in part by pro­moting competition among insurers on premium price and value. One primary mechanism for meeting that goal is the establishment of new individual health insurance marketplaces where consumers can shop for, compare, and purchase plans, with subsidies ...

It usually occurs that in important matches, athletes often play abnormal of their sport technique as they are too concerned about the competition result, and this is called Choking phenomenon. How to explain and control this from the perspective of the present psychology has become a widely discussed hot issue in the field of sports psychology. By research on the occurrence conditions of athle...

When organizing a scheduling competition one important issue is identifying the test problems for which the participating teams should demonstrate the performance of their approach. Ideally, the results of a competitive evaluation of different approaches should be useful to both scheduling researchers and practitioners. To enable this, we believe that the process of producing problem instances ...

This issue brief describes the ways in which competition between firms can benefit consumers, workers, entrepreneurs, small businesses and the economy more generally, and also describes how these benefits can be lost when competition is impaired by firms’ actions or government policies. Several indicators suggest that competition may be decreasing in many economic sectors, including the decades...

Males among many species, including humans, evaluate cues of sperm competition risk and adjust accordingly their sperm competition tactics. The number of potential sexual rivals can serve as an index of sperm competition risk. Therefore, men may adjust their in-pair copulatory interest in accordance with the presence of sexual rivals. Using self-reports from 45 married men, we test the hypothes...

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