We study a practice whereby a downstream firm makes to his supplier a premium-payment for a certain quantity of products. We show that the adoption of this practice can induce th...
Bureaucratic institutions not only provide mechanisms to coordinate work activities in the public sector, but also serve to enforce the democratic values of equality and impartial...
Several current support systems for travel and tourism are aimed at providing information in a personalized manner, taking users' interests and preferences into account. In t...
Civilians are not just passively static but might purposefully take actions to help one side in a battle. Sometimes civilians might directly join one side if they are excessively ...
Mo Wei, Genshe Chen, Jose B. Cruz Jr., Leonard Hay...
Context-aware pervasive systems are an important emerging category of software, increasingly pervading into daily life, play and work. These systems are characterized by capabilit...