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A family of supermodular Nash mechanisms implementing Lindahl allocations
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2002-06)
We present a family of mechanisms which implement Lindahl allocations in Nash equilibrium. With quasilinear utility functions this family of mechanisms are supermodular games, which implies that they converge to Nash ...
Diversity and Conflict in Teams: A Faultline Model Perspective
(Academy of Management, 2008-08-01)
Although the relationship between diversity and conflict in teams has received much attention in the past two decades, prior research has yielded inconsistent results. Drawing from the conceptual work on team faultlines, ...
Archives, Memory, and Interfaces with the Past
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-03)
Archival interfaces are criticalnodes in archival systems where archivistsnegotiate and exercise power over theconstitution and representation of archives. Drawing on notions of interfaces from physical,technological, and ...
Rational Coordination in Multi-Agent Environments
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-12)
We adopt the decision-theoretic principle of expected utility maximization as a paradigm for designing autonomous rational agents, and present a framework that uses this paradigm to determine the choice of coordinated ...
Promoting understanding of chemical representations: Students' use of a visualization tool in the classroom
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001-09)
Many students have difficulty learning symbolic and molecular representations of chemistry. This study investigated how students developed an understanding of chemical representations with the aid of a computer-based ...
Modeling the Digital Content Landscape in Universities
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2008)
Digital content is a common denominator that underlies all discussions on scholarly communication, digital preservation, and asset management. This past decade has seen a distinctive evolution in thinking among stakeholders ...
Emergent Properties of a Market-based Digital Library with Strategic Agents
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-03)
The University of Michigan Digital Library (UMDL) is designed as an open system that allows third parties to build and integrate their own profit-seeking agents into the marketplace of information goods and services. The ...
Lost, found, and feeling better: Exploring proxy health information behavior
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2005)
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Building Meaning in Digitized Photographs
(University of Chicago, 2009)
This paper explores how visual meaning is built through the transformation of photographic images
from analog (prints or negatives) to digital bitmaps. The paper frames the issue of digitization of
photographs and their ...
Social Capital and Knowledge Integration in Digitally Enabled Teams
(Informs, 2008-09)
To understand the impact of social capital on knowledge integration and performance within digitally enabled teams, we studied 46 teams who had a history and a future working together. All three dimensions of their social ...