Intellectual property protection mechanisms (IPPMs) are critical to fostering innovation and their relevance has grown enormously with the increased trade in goods and services involving intellectual property. Scholars have investigated what factors facilitate or hinder the use of such IP...

Intellectual property protection mechanisms (IPPMs) are critical to fostering innovation and their relevance has grown enormously with the increased trade in goods and services involving intellectual property. Scholars have investigated what factors facilitate or hinder the use of such IP...

The quality of a solution to an integer programming problem is a function of a number of elements. Lightly constrained problems are easier to solve than those with tighter constraints. Local search methods generally perform better than greedy methods. In the companion paper to this one, the...