Das 21. Jahrhundert wäre ohne Innovationen kaum vorstellbar. Dinge, die heute zum mitteleuropäischen Lebensstandard gehören, wie etwa Mobiltelefone, Automobile, Flugzeuge, das Internet und viele andere Produkte, Dienstleistungen oder Prozesse resultierten aus Forschung und Entwicklung (F&E)....

The internet, peer-to-peer technology and mobile devices are radically changing markets for digital media such as recorded music. Incumbent companies in these industries have severe difficulties in reacting to these changes and finding effective business models. The fundamental challenge is how...

The paper deals with division situations where individual claims can vary within closed intervals.Uncertainty of claims is removed by compromising in a consistent way the upper and lower bounds of the claim intervals.Deterministic division problems with compromise claims are then considered and...

For decision makers in the electricity sector, the decision process is complex with several different levels that have to be taken into consideration. These comprise for instance the planning of facilities and an optimal day-to-day operation of the power plant. These decisions address widely...

Environmental problems belong to the main challenging problems of the 21th century. There is a lack of new allocation principles for investments. Several approaches from the field of game theory concerning this topic may be found in [5] and [11], for example. Additionaly to that approaches the...

The presented TEM-model describes the economical interaction between several actors (players) which intend to minimize their emissions (E i ) caused by technologies (T i ) by means of expenditures of money (M i ) or financial means, respectively. The index stands for the i-th player, i=1, …...

The presented TEM-model describes the economical interaction between several actors (players) which intend to minimize their emissions (E <Subscript>i</Subscript>) caused by technologies (T <Subscript>i</Subscript>) by means of expenditures of money (M <Subscript>i</Subscript>) or financial means, respectively. The index stands for the i-th player, i=1, … ,n....</subscript></subscript></subscript>

System dynamics models are employed for analyzing the impact of different uncertainties on carbon emission trading–both on national and business levels. Economic, institutional and technological uncertainties significantly influence any country's benefits from emission permit trading. If a...