We are interested in mechanisms that maximize the final social welfare. In [1] this problem was studied for multiunit auctions with unit demand bidders and for the public project problem, and in each case social welfare undominated mechanisms in the class of feasible and incentive compatible...

Decentralized partially observable Markov decision processes (Dec-POMDPs) constitute a generic and expressive framework for multiagent planning under uncertainty. However, planning optimally is difficult because solutions map local observation histories to actions, and the number of such...

Overseas production is frequently seen as a force inducing the decentralization of R&D. A complementary explanation can be provided if we admit that the acquisition of knowledge is one of the key factors behind the internationalization of R&D. Multinational firms which adopt such a...

A quelques exceptions près, la théorie économique ne s’est pas emparée de la question de la conflictualité. Une hypothèse peut être formulée quant aux motifs de cette omission qui caractérise structurellement l’analyse économique : à la différence d’autres concepts centraux...

This article aims to present the research conducted in recent years by a multidisciplinary team on the questions of land-use conflict, and to reveal the methodology of survey and data collection, as well as the structure of the resulting database. We first define the scope of our study by...

The article offers an empirically-based analysis of conflicts over public utility infrastructures in the Paris region. It sheds some light on public decision-making process and on the role conflicts play in the process of land availability. Area tends to be lessened due to economic development...