Playing poker has many aspects in common with the making of business decisions. Agents act in a strategically rich, dynamic environment, where they are repeatedly facing competition under uncertain prospects. Their main goal is to maximize their resources. However simple this goal is put down,...

Die heißen Diskussionen über die Ergebnisse der PISA – (in aller Öffentlichkeit) und TIMSS – Studie (im Fachpublikum) sowie die verschiedenen Ansichten über Kultus – und Bildungspolitik im Rahmen der Föderalismusreform deuten auf einen großen Informationsbedarf hin. Dabei lassen auch...

Genetic selection is an important breeding tool that can be used for improving the animal's coping capability to modern production environments or for increasing economic benefits. However, over the past five decades, commercial breeding programmes have primarily concentrated on traits directly...

Die Gestaltung von Interaktionen und Netzwerken stellt immer öfter den zentralen Faktor in der Entwicklung und im Leben sowohl von Individuen als auch Gruppen oder Unternehmen dar. Häufig fehlt es den Akteuren in der täglichen Praxis allerdings an dem notwendigen Wissen, um ihre Kontakte auch...

Consumers interact with each other and within their social networks. Influentials have an overproportional influence on other consumers? preferences and choices, thus having relevant implications for product development, marketing planning and strategic marketing. An important question that...

The first goal of the present work focuses on the need for different rationing methods of the The Global Change and Financial Transition (GFT) work- ing group at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK): I provide a toolbox which contains a variety of rationing methods to be ap-...