The effects of the flood control project of the Kakehashi River on the heritage value of Komatsu Tenmangu (a Shinto shrine) in Japan are analyzed in terms of Amartya Sen’s capability approach. The shrine was founded in 1657, and its main buildings are nationally designated “important...

This paper addresses the problem of interdependent failures of critical infrastructures in disasters. Disruptions to critical infrastructure systems such as electric power or transportation frequently cause major social and economic loss in disasters, both directly and through failures in one...

The main objective of this report is to describe a decision-support system for dynamic retail pricing and promotion planning. Our weekly demand model incorporates price, reference price effects, seasonality, article availability information, features, and discounts. Building on previous...

Many organizational actions need not have any immediate or direct payoff consequence but set the stage for subsequent actions that bring the organization toward some actual payoff. Learning in such settings poses the challenge of credit assignment (Minsky 1961), that is, how to assign credit for...

Die sektorale und räumliche Koordination von Fachpolitiken ist bereits seit Langem Gegenstand disziplinärer und interdisziplinärer Diskussion. Diese hat ihren Ausgangspunkt in der Erkenntnis, dass ausschließlich autonome Fachpolitik bzw. ausschließlich autonomes Handeln politischer Akteure...