political marketing shares many characteristics in common with marketing in the business world. in business marketing , sellers dispatch goods, services, and communications[e.g.advertising] to the market and in return, money [consumer purchases], information [consumer research], and customer loyalty are received. in political campaigns, candidates dispatch promises , favors , policy preferences...

This paper analyses price competition between two firms producing horizontally and vertically differentiated goods. These are assumed to be credence goods, as consumers can hardly ascertain the quality of the commodities. We provide sufficient conditions for the existence of a unique price equilibrium and we characterize it. To illustrate the model, we adapt it to represent a newspapers’ indust...

The growing popularity of hypertext navigation systems and the availability of large documentary databases is leading to the design of navigation systems that allow to explore these masses of documents. In this article, we present a prototype hypertext system for navigating through the dispatch archives created from Agence France-Presse. Taking account of the volume of documents to be processed...

Economic Dispatch Problem (EDP) has been discussed with reference to the developments based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) approaches. A selected survey / overview on Economic Dispatch using Artificial Neural Network within the IEE/IEEE publications frame work have been presented.

In a batch processing network, multiple jobs can be formed into a batch to be processed in a single service operation. The network is multiclass in that several job classes may be processed at a server. Jobs in different classes cannot be mixed into a single batch. A batch policy specifies which class of jobs is to be served next. Throughput of a batch processing network depends on the batch po...

This paper presents an efficient architecture of binary motion estimation (BME) for MPEG-4 shape coding. This architecture, called DDBME, mainly consists of a data dispatch based 1-D systolic array and a 16×32 bit search range buffer. In DDBME, bit parallelism technique is applied on the SAD calculation of block matching algorithm. In order to support efficiently bit-data parallel processing, b...

The mobile agent approach is suitable for deploying large-scale parallel processing over distributed hosts. However, if the number of mobile agents is very large and the dispatch is processed in a serial way, it can become a bottleneck that impacts the efficiency as a whole. In this paper, we first briefly present a mobile agent based framework for Internet marketplaces enabling parallel proces...