This review presents the well-known notion of merging, introduced by Blackwell and Dubins, and its later generalizations. While the original concept of merging refers to all future events, the two new concepts, of weak and of almost weak merging, are concerned only with forecasting near-future...

This book offers a stable definition of sustainability, which is able to serve as an anchor for further research. It compares new and demanding requisites with existing models (process and network architectures in the field of logistics).

1 Introduction and Outline -- Part I: Internal Migration and the Labor Market -- 2 Panel VAR for Internal Migration Modelling -- 3 Testing the Neoclassical Migration Model -- 4 Space-Time Dependence in Migration Flows -- Part II: Trade and FDI Activity -- 5 Trade-FDI Linkages -- 6 Estimating...

Managing safety of diverse systems requires decision-making under uncertainties and risks. Such systems are typically characterized by spatio-temporal heterogeneities, inter-dependencies, externalities, endogenous risks, discontinuities, irreversibility, practically irreducible uncertainties,...

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Exploring Services Science (IESS) that was held in Geneva, Switzerland, in February 2012.At the conference, researchers from all over the world present innovative ideas, research, and applications in the design,...

Introduction -- Management Accounting -- Conceptual and Theoretical Framework -- Research Design and Model Formalization -- Costing System Sophistication and Quality of Provided Information -- Effects of Single Input Biases on the Quality of Provided Information -- Effects of Multiple Input...

Introduction -- Notes on Some Theories of Giffen Behaviour -- Exact and Useful Optimization Methods for Microeconomics -- On the Definitions of Giffen and Inferior Goods -- Giffen Behaviour and Strong Assymetric Gross Substituability -- A Child Garden of Concrete Giffen Utility Functions: a...

Motivation and Nontechnical Overview -- Selected Theoretical Concepts: The Theory of Games -- Network Theory in Economics. Applications to Peering in Telecommunications: Telecommunications and the Internet -- A Model of Peering Among VoIP Firms -- Network Formation in Peering -- Concluding...