In this paper we shall represent strategic planning problems by dynamic decision trees, in which the nodes are projects that can be deferred or postponed for a certain period of t...
This conceptual paper suggests how Politeness Theory [6] – well known in anthropological and linguistic literatures – can contribute to the study of role relations in computer...
Long transactions cause pragmatic problems for workflow systems – as the transaction is moving, so is the surrounding world. We look at three scenarios in which external events ...
Moving around our physical environment, we are surrounded and interact with information that exhorts and stimulates us to buy things. For most of us, not all of these impulses are...
— Some electric power markets allow bidders to specify constraints on ramp rates for increasing or decreasing power production. We show in a small example that a bidder could use...