Cost studies were done for Total Flow, double flash, and multistage flash binary systems for electric Energy production from the Salton Sea Geothermal Resource. The purpose was to provide the Department of energy's Division of Geothermal Energy with information by which to judge whether to...

Monitoring and adjusting financial health problems play central role in the firm’s performance.Usually, small firms face difficulties in these tasks for lacking human resources and incapacityto afford a consultant. By analyzing the nature of the diagnosis and the solution of financialproblems...

Along with the growth of electronic commerce has come an interest in developing autonomous trading agents. Often, such agents must interact directly withother market participants, and so the behavior of these participants must be taken into account when designing agent strategies. One common...

Dynamic service-oriented environments (SOEs) are characterised by a large number of heterogeneous service components that are expected to support the business as a whole. The present work provides a negotiation-based approach to facilitate automated and multi-level service-level management in an...

Complex multi-agent systems often are not amenable to standard game-theoretic analysis. I study methods for strategic reasoning that scale to more complex interactions, drawing on computational and empirical techniques. Several recent studies have applied simulation to estimate game models,...

The emergence of online labor markets makes it far easier to use individual human raters to evaluate materials for data collection and analysis in the social sciences. In this paper, we report the results of an experiment - conducted in an online labor market - that measured the effectiveness of...

By focusing on the dynamics of action inquiry strategies, this paper has framed the way in which the process is characterised and the potential of this approach for applied management research. The relationship between improved knowledge through action and improved action through reflection is...

Everyday life is increasingly made up of ethical messages and decisions mediated by the brands in our lives. Based on extensive empirical research on the brands Starbucks and MTV, this article examines some of the ways these two brands format corporate social responsibility (CSR). Drawing on...