Preference for different conflict resolution styles is influenced by cultural background and power distance of two parties involving in conflict. This research put forward 7 hypotheses and tested the preference differences of the five conflict resolution styles between Chinese owner and contractor as well as the preference differences concerning the same style between two parties. The research ...

In this paper, we investigate the multiple attribute decision making (MADM) in uncertain linguistic setting where the information about attribute weights is incompletely known and the attribute values are uncertain linguistic variables, and the decision maker (DM) has preferences on alternatives. We establish two optimization models, which minimize deviations between the overall attribute valu...

Many cities in the Global South are structurally different from Northern, particularly American, on which much of urban sociology’s conceptual apparatus has been based. Thus, depicting them terms a standard vocabulary risks imposing an inappropriate way seeing. We need that is able to accommodate their experience. This special issue contributes work building vocabulary. select five keywords soc...

Recently, the design is becoming important in product development. The technology which is a strong point of Japan is immediately caught up by the foreign countries, and the price competition begins. Therefore companies tend to plan differentiation of products by the design or a color. The purpose of my work was to consider the optimal color for using by product development. We needed to clarif...

With the rapid development of modern technology electronically available textual information has increased to a considerable amount. Summarization of textual information manually from unstructured text sources creates overhead to the user, therefore a systematic approach is required. Summarization is an approach that focuses on providing the user with a condensed version of the original text bu...

How our governments deal with environmental crises can depend on national culture, including time preference (i.e., short- vs. long-term orientation). Here, we follow up the hypothesis that orientation increases policy performance. To this end, use three indices (including a newly constructed index wide spatial coverage based Google search data). Our results show countries higher have This rela...

The paper surveys over twenty models of delay discounting (also known as temporal discounting, time preference, time discounting), that psychologists and economists have put forward to explain the way people actually trade off time and money. Using little more than the basic algebra of powers and logarithms, I show how the models are derived, what assumptions they are based upon, and how differ...