In the global economy, knowledge has become a key asset in organizations; thus, Knowledge Management (KM) has emerged as a major issue that managers must deal with. However, implementing KM is becoming more complicated. Practitioners must assess complex and confusing situations, initiate KM, identify the causal relationships between problems, make appropriate decisions, and guarantee that the r...

Neuroevolution is a useful machine learning approach for problems with limited domain knowledge, but it has not done well with strategic decision-making problems, where the correct action varies sharply as the agent moves across states. Two promising neuroevolution algorithms are NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) and its extension, HyperNEAT. We compare the performance of these two...

I develop a model of an R&D race with knowledge accumulation. My model does not inherit the memorylessness property of the exponential distribution that troubles existing models of R&D races. Hence, firms’ knowledge stocks are no longer irrelevant to their behavior during the R&D race, and knowledge accumulation has strategic implications. In this more general setting, I obtain results that sta...

The United States is a leading nation in the development of synthetic biology, an emerging engineering discipline to create, control and reprogram biological systems. With strategic investment from its government agencies, the U.S. has established numerous research centers and programs in synthetic biology, enabling significant advances in foundational tool development and practical application...

Multi-academy trusts are groups of schools in England led by an Executive Head Teacher and a Board Trustees. High profile failures these organisations raise questions over the way they strategically led. Leadership studies argue that absence strategic thinking is major detractor from performance & sustainability. However, creating strategy for single organisation very different to it collaborat...

Information Technology (IT) has significant impacts to modern organizations especially in assisting daily operations and meeting business targets. Main contributions of IT to organizations are increased efficiency, effectiveness and competitiveness. Non-profit organizations can also benefit as much as for-profit organizations from IT. Education Organizations (EOs) for example, would benefit in ...

The TAC 2003 supply-chain game presented automated trading agents with a challenging strategic problem. Embedded within a complex stochastic environment was a pivotal strategic decision about initial procurement of components. Early evidence suggested that the entrant field was headed toward a self-destructive, mutually unprofitable equilibrium. Our agent, Deep Maize, introduced a preemptive st...

A classic experiment used in testing for ESP abilities has the following general form. A deck of cards, consisting of a, identical cards of type i, 1 I i I r, is shuffled and placed face down (in most such experiments r = 5 and a, = 5 for 1 I i _( 5). The subject then attempts to correctly guess the type of each card as the cards are sequentially removed from the deck. In previous work [2,3], s...