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Formalization of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. The Special Case of Category Theory
This working paper lists some ideas on how to apply category theory to agents, and multi-agent systems. It focuses more on the distributivity and compositionality of agents, as well as on the emergence of sociality and properties, than on the intelligence or on the ability of agents to reason. It presents some categorical notions, and explains informally how they can be connected...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Migration of legacy applications to a CORBA platform: a case study
An important problem that many large organizations face today concerns the support and evolution of their large (legacy) information systems. In this paper we present an approach for migrating large and interdependent legacy information systems to CORBA based platforms. Our approach allows continuous availability of the information systems, minimal manpower for the implementation and...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Applications and Research directions of the Object Systems Group
We present an overview of the research directions, projects and applications of the Object Systems Group.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Discriminatory versus uniform Treasury auctions: Evidence from when-issued transactions
We use wehn-issued transactions data to assess the Treasury's current experiment with uniform auctions, suggesting a higher information release, which should reduce pre-auction uncertainty and the winner's curse. Under uniform auctions, wehn-issued volatility falls after the auction and again after the outcome announcement. The pattern is the opposite for discriminatory...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
On the sharpness of the Orlicz-Sobolev imbedding theorem
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Evaluation von Hochschulleistungen, Leistungsindikatoren und Performance Measurements
Aufgrund der zunehmenden Studentenzahlen und der hohen Investitionen in Forschungs- und Bildungseinrichtungen beanspruchte der Hochschulbereich in den letzten Jahren immer mehr öffentliche Mittel mit steigender Tendenz. Wurden die Hochschulbudgets bis anhin von den Parlamenten weitgehend stillschweigend genehmigt, wird dies - aufgrund der knappen Ressourcen - in Zukunft kaum mehr der...
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Deutsch / 01/01/1996
A Comparison of US, UK, and German Insolvency Codes
This paper describes three insolvency codes, those of the United Kingdom (UK), Germany, and the United States (US) and compares their efficiency against a number of benchmarks. These codes have been chosen because they cover a broad spectrum of debtor- and creditor-oriented insolvency procedures. The paper also compares the plans of distressed firms' reorganizations both within...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Die theoretische Fundierung unvollständiger Verträge
Innerhalb der Kontrakttheorie hat sich im vergangenen Jahrzehnt die Theorie unvollständiger Verträge als besonders fruchtbar erwiesen. Jüngste Forschungsarbeiten zeigen jedoch, daß die durch Hart und Moore (1988) als gegeben geglaubte Fundierung nicht sehr robust ist. Ziel des Artikels ist es, einen Einblick in aktuelle Fragen und Ergebnisse der diesbezüglichen Forschung zu...
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Deutsch / 01/01/1996
ECOSYS-87: Model Calculations of the activity in cow meat related to deposition time and feeding regimes after a nuclear fallout
The radioecological model ECOSYS-87 was used to evaluate the effect of countermeasures for reducing the ingestion dose by eating cattle meat after an accidental release of radioactive material. Calculations were performed using a database adapted to Swiss conditions for the case that (1) contaminated grass or hay is replaced by clean fodder; (2) the last 100 days before slaughter,...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
A look at the Nd as a special case of CNV
Tone onset and normal tone offset in Nd tasks are formally similar to the S1 and S2 events in a CNV task requiring perceptual discrimination (tone duration) for designated tones. If the Nd thus reflects more than mere stimulus selection, increasing the duration of all tones should lengthen the Nd wave. Eight subjects participated to three Nd tasks, with short tones of 50, 150, and...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Markt- und menschenorientierte Unternehmensführung
Institution partenaire
Deutsch / 01/01/1996
Auditors' perceptions of client firms: The stigma of decline and the stigma of growth
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
A fair mechanism for the efficient reduction of global CO2-emissions
Because of the public good character of global emissions it is difficult to implement reduction
targets as formulated at Toronto or Rio. This paper presents a simple mechanism for inducing
efficient contributions to the reductions of emissions as a non-cooperative equilibrium. The
world is partitioned into groups of countries, and then each country is taxed or...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Retirement of spouses and social security reform
The retirement decisions of spouses may be interdependent for various reasons: similarity of tastes, joint assets, sharing rules for income and housework, or complementarity of leisure. Because of data limitations, only a few empirical studies exist on this topic. From a policy point of view interdependent retirement could become important if legislators in different EC countries are...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
The cross-country Engel curve for product diversification
This paper employs ICP expenditure data to investigate the relationship between income and product diversity. It turns out that per-capita income has a strong positive impact on the number of products consumed at a non-negligible level in a country, and a significant negative impact on the concentration of consumers' expenditure across different goods categories. Inequality in...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Labor Markets, Production Strategies, and Wage Bargaining Institutions: The Swedish Employer Offensive in Comparative Perspective
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Social Movements and Institutional Selectivity
Contrary to what is usually implied by work on the relationship between political opportunity structures and social movements, political institutions are not a general setting offering or denying formal access and political opportunities to every challenge, but rather favor certain types of movements and constrain others. This process of institutional selectivity depends on the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
L'étude de l'action collective entre deux traditions sociologiques
L'étude de l'action collective et des mouvements sociaux a été caractérisée par deux grandes écoles. La tradition culturelle et sociologique européenne, qui présente des traits de l'idéalisme allemand et du holisme méthodologique, a conduit à étudier l'action collective principalement sur le plan théorique et macro-sociologique. En revanche, la tradition...
Institution partenaire
Français / 01/01/1996
Modelling Income Distribution in Spain: A Robust Parametric Approach
This paper presents a robust estimation of two income distribution models using Spanish data for the period 1990-91 under three different concepts of income. The effect on the estimates of the Theil index due to the choice of the definition of income and of the estimation method is also analysed.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
"Bottom up Positioning" - Internationales Marketing für kleinere und mittlere Unternehmungen der Werkzeugmaschinenindustrie
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Deutsch / 01/01/1996
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