This book is intended to make up-to-date information and opinion about Francophonie accessible to English-speaking readers, and to assess how well the international movement of French-speaking nations is placed to face the future. 'Francophonie' can be defined in three ways: as …
This book is intended to make up-to-date information and opinion about Francophonie accessible to English-speaking readers, and to assess how well the international movement of French-speaking nations is placed to face the future. 'Francophonie' can be defined in three ways: as …
The author, an evolution and animal behavior expert, explores four paths to cooperation: through family, in accord with the golden rule, by selfish teamwork, and by complete altruism.
In this thesis decision-making problems are formalized using a stochastic discrete-time model called decentralized partially observable Markov decision process (Dec-POMDP).
In modern business management today's companies no longer compete as solely autonomous entities, but rather as supply chains. Supply chain collaboration can bring with substantial benefits and advantages for companies. To strengthen supply chain collaboration, inter-organisation…
When a business strategy is so new in design, a new word must be coined to capture its value. Such is the case with co-opetition, a method that goes beyond the old rules of competition and cooperation to combine the advantages of both. Co-opetition is a pioneering, high-profit m…
Many rural regions in Europe are undergoing a dynamic transition, driven by forces of urbanisation and agricultural development, new patterns of production and consumption, and new societal demands. However, while the historical rural-urban divide is eroding, rural landscapes a…
Rodin's sculpture "The Thinker" dominates our collective imagination as the purest representation of human inquiry--the lone, stoic thinker. But while the Western belief in individualism romanticizes this perception of the solitary creative process, the reality is that scientifi…
1. Introduction. 2. Joined Lives and Shared Work. 3. Partnerships in Science. 4. Patterns of Collaboration among Artists. 5. A Chorus of Voices: Women and Collaboration. 6. Felt Knowledge: Emotional Dynamics of Collaboration. 7. Collaboration across Generations. 8. Conclusions. …
History of the rhetoric and reality of library and computing relationships / Peggy Seiden, Michael D. Kathman -- An Issue in search of a metaphor: readings on the marriageability of libraries and computing centers / Robert S. Freeman, Scott B. Mandernack, John Mack Tucker -- The…
