Collaboration based on GIS provides a spatially referenced negotiation environment for decision makers. Among the collaboration process, the operations of the system users may conflict. The existing solutions to operation conflict are essentially based on the time the operations occur. It doesn’t consider the characteristics of the operations and the collaborative relationships between the syst...

Five approaches in conflict resolution are distinguished, based on cooperativeness and aggressiveness in resolving conflict. Compromise based on cooperativeness is emphasized here as a solution in conflict resolution. Cooperative game theory oriented towards aiding the conflict resolution is considered and the compromise value for TU(transferable utility)-game is presented. The method VIKOR cou...

The interaction between economic and ecological dynamic systems is analyzed with a multi-agent dynamic game model of fishery management. Multiple actors (fishermen) harvest multiple fish types and adapt the amount and allocation of their investments to their value functions, which are given as net profits of the fish harvest sold for a market price. We introduce and compare two different decisi...

Conflict resolution is one of the most important problems that must be solved in building a collaborative system. In many CSCW (Computer-Supported-Cooperative Work) applications or systems, roles were granted in the design and application of these systems. Consequently, we may infer that “without roles, there would be no collaboration”. Based on the success of RBAC, we found that role-based met...

The issue of consumer information privacy, arguably the most substantial and persistent problem confronting e-commerce companies in general and online social networking service providers in particular, often results in unsatisfied customers. Researchers have investigated privacy from various perspectives and in a multitude of settings, yet there have been few attempts to understand privacy vers...

The performance of women agribusiness cooperatives in Oyo State, Nigeria was assessed in this study. The study employed a multi-stage sampling technique to select 6 women cooperative groups (aggregating to 175 individuals); 36 individual women; and 4 institutions across 6 LGAs in two agricultural zones of the State. Findings show that majority (55.6%) of the respondents belong to processing org...

the aim of the research is to determine the concept of conflict, conflict management scope and approaches in managerial approaches based on islamic view. to achieve the goal, content analysis has been used. research data was collected from the books and articles in the context of management, human relations and organizational behavior reflecting islamic view. a number of 19 books and articles t...

Adaptive management is an approach to natural resource management that uses structured learning to reduce uncertainties for the improvement of management over time. The origins of adaptive management are linked to ideas of resilience theory and complex systems. Rangeland management is particularly well suited for the application of adaptive management, having sufficient controllability and redu...