The Minority Game is a model of interacting agents, who try to choose between two options every day, and those who are in the minority are winners. In an earlier paper, efficient stochastic strategies for this game was analyzed when the number of agents is 3, 5, 7. When the number of agents is large, the behaviour is qualitatively different, and as the discount parameter is varied, there is a s...

This article examines possibilities to develop the service sector in a peripheral area by using virtual business incubations instead of traditional, location-based business incubations. The article introduces typical characteristics of physical business incubations and compares them with features that are possible to be provided also virtually. Then, using the tourism branch in Finnish Lapland ...

A highly cost-effective approach for rationale capture and management is to provide automated support, and capture the resulting artifacts of the process by which software and system requirements and solutions are negotiated. The WinWin process model, equilibrium model, and collaborative negotiation tool provide capabilities for capturing the artifacts. The MBASE software process model provides...

We sought to determine the cartilage repair capacity of WIN-34B in the collagenase-induced osteoarthritis rabbit model and in progenitor cells from subchondral bone. The cartilage protective effect of WIN-34B was measured by clinical and histological scores, cartilage area, and proteoglycan and collagen contents in the collagenase-induced osteoarthritis rabbit model. The efficacy of chondrogeni...

Wer hätte vor drei Jahren gedacht, dass diese Diskussion in der Branche Alten- und Pflegeheime wieder geführt werden muss? Doch die Pandemie Auswirkungen des zunehmenden Personalmangels lassen Fragen rund um Aufwand-Nutzen-Relation Qualitätsmanagements erneut aufflammen. Was Qualitätsmanagement nun wirklich bringt welche Qualitätsarbeit für eine krisengeprägte hat, beleuchten Vertreterinnen Ver...