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Integrated Premission Planning and Execution for Unmanned Ground Vehicles
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-03)
Fielding robots in complex applications can stress the human operators responsible for supervising them, particularly because the operators might understand the applications but not the details of the robots. Our answer ...
Global and local collaborators: A study of scientific collaboration
(Elsevier, 1992)
Increased co-authorship in schistosomiasis has been shown to be associated with research funding. The small core of grantees is highly prolific. Furthermore, strong evidence points to the existence of two types of co-authors, ...
Some Economics of the Internet
(University of Michigan Press, 1996)
This paper overlaps substantially with the paper Pricing the Internet. We describe the history, technology and costs of the Internet (at greater length than in "Pricing"). We describe a "smart market" for pricing Internet ...
The optimal choice of privatizing state-owned enterprises: A political economic model
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-03)
We study the choices of two types of maximizing Public Servants over how far to carry privatization of industries and in what order to privatize. Two stylizations of the Public Servant's objectives are considered, a ...
Veto games: Spatial committees under unanimity rule
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-12)
There exists a large literature on two-person bargaining games and distribution games (or divide-the-dollar games) under simple majority rule, where in equilibrium a minimal winning coalition takes full advantage over ...
Archival Preservation Practice in a Nationwide Context
(Society of American Archivists, 1990-04)
The preservation of historical materials, in a variety of forms and formats, is both a cultural necessity and a central responsibility for professional archivists. Archivists need to define for themselves just what archival ...
How Much Do Taxes Discourage Incorporation
(1997-06)
The double taxation of corporate income should discourage firms from incorporating. We investigate the extent to which the aggregate allocation of assets and taxable income in the U.S. between corporate and non-corporate ...
A contracting model for flexible distributed scheduling
(Baltzer Science Publishers, Baarn/Kluwer Academic Publishers; J.C. Baltzer AG, Science Publishers ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-08)
We are interested in building systems of autonomous agents that can automate routine information processing activities in human organizations. Computational infrastructures for cooperative work should contain embedded ...
Secondary Students' Dynamic Modeling Processes: Analyzing, Reasoning About, Synthesizing, and Testing Models of Stream Ecosystems
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-09)
In this paper, we explore dynamic modeling as an opportunity for students to think about the science content they are learning. We examined the “Cognitive Strategies for Modeling” (CSMs) in which students engaged as they ...