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  • Reducing incentives for agent collaboration 
    Yorke-Smith N. (Collaborative Agents - Research and Development (CARE);, 2011)
    The benefits of collaborative agents include achievement of complex goals that are difficult or impossible to attain for an individual agent. Incentive schemes, market mechanisms, and organizational structures can be ...
  • Relating goal and commitment semantics 
    Telang P.R.; Singh M.P.; Yorke-Smith N. (, 2012)
    Whereas commitments capture how an agent relates with another agent, (private) goals describe states of the world that an agent is motivated to bring about. Researchers have observed that goals and commitments are ...
  • Relationship between governance structure and financial performance in construction 
    Rebeiz K.S.; Salameh Z. (RESTON1801 ALEXANDER BELL DR, RESTON, VA 20191-4400 USA, 2006)
    Although corporate governance has emerged as an issue of considerable importance in shaping the organizational structure and the vision of the firm, this entity has yet to receive sufficient scrutiny in the construction ...
  • Religious discourse and organizational change: Legitimizing the stakeholder perspective at a Saudi conglomerate 
    Sidani Y.; Showail S. (BINGLEYHOWARD HOUSE, WAGON LANE, BINGLEY BD16 1WA, W YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND, 2013)
    Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a case of proactive change that occurred in a large organization in Saudi Arabia. Design-methodology-approach: The paper explains how management actively used religious ...
  • Remittance outflows and inflation: The case of the GCC countries 
    Termos A.; Naufal G.; Genc I. (LAUSANNEPO BOX 564, 1001 LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND, 2013)
    We examine the effect of remittance outflows on inflation in the remitting countries. The growth of remittance outflows depresses inflation rate. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.
  • Reports of the AAAI 2010 fall symposia 
    Azevedo R.; Biswas G.; Bohus D.; Carmichael T.; Finlayson M.A.; Hadzikadic M.; Havasi C.; Horvitz E.; Kanda T.; Koyejo O.; Lawless W.F.; Lenat D.; Meneguzzi F.; Mutlu B.; Oh J.; Pirrone R.; Raux A.; Sofge D.A.; Sukthankar G.; Van Durme B.; Yorke-Smith N. (MENLO PK445 BURGESS DRIVE, MENLO PK, CA 94025-3496 USA, 2011)
    The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) presented the 2010 Fall Symposium Series on November 11-13, 2010. The eight symposia included Cognitive and Metacognitive Educational Systems, Commonsense ...
  • Risk management and corporate governance in the Lebanese Islamic banking industry 
    Chahine S.; Dagher B. (Virtus Interpress;, 2008)
    Despite recent growth in the Islamic banking industry, little is known on the best practices in its risk management. This paper examines the risk management systems of Islamic banks in Lebanon. Using a survey technique, ...
  • Risk premiums and predictive ability of BAX futures 
    Gospodinov N.; Jamali I. (HOBOKEN111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA, 2011)
    This study provides an in-depth analysis of risk premiums in the Canadian Bankers' Acceptances futures (BAX) market. The predictive regressions for excess and holding-period returns on BAX futures lend empirical support ...
  • Scheduling and planning applications: Selected papers from the spark workshop series 
    Vidal L.C.; Cortellessa G.; Yorke-Smith N. (MALDENCOMMERCE PLACE, 350 MAIN ST, MALDEN 02148, MA USA, 2011)
    [No abstract available]
  • Selection criteria of Lebanese consumers in the global snack food industry: Country of origin perceptions 
    Zbib I.J.; Wooldridge B.R.; Ahmed Z.U.; Benlian S. (2010)
    Purpose: This paper aims to study country of origin perceptions of Lebanese consumers with respect to potato chips, the correlation involved between country of manufacture and consumer behavior; purchase intent; and product ...
  • Self-organizing feature maps for the vehicle routing problem with backhauls 
    Ghaziri H.; Osman I.H. (DORDRECHTVAN GODEWIJCKSTRAAT 30, 3311 GZ DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS, 2006)
    In the Vehicle Routing Problem with Backhauls (VRPB), a central depot, a fleet of homogeneous vehicles, and a set of customers are given. The set of customers is divided into two subsets. The first (second) set of linehauls ...
  • Shareholders' rights and the effect of the origin of venture capital firms on the underpricing of US IPOs 
    Chahine S.; Saade S. (HOBOKEN111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA, 2011)
    Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Question-Issue: This paper examines whether firm performance at initial public offerings (IPO) is differentially affected by the origin of Venture Capital (VC) firms. Empirical investigations ...
  • Simultaneous optimisation of products, processes, and people in development projects 
    Yassine A.A.; Chidiac R.H.; Osman I.H. (ABINGDON4 PARK SQUARE, MILTON PARK, ABINGDON OX14 4RN, OXON, ENGLAND, 2013)
    Organisations involved in product development (PD) constantly introduce new products using development teams within the organisation. These teams carry out PD activities using the established development processes in order ...
  • Single-machine batch scheduling minimizing weighted flow times and delivery costs 
    Mazdeh M.M.; Shashaani S.; Ashouri A.; Hindi K.S. (NEW YORK360 PARK AVE SOUTH, NEW YORK, NY 10010-1710 USA, 2011)
    This paper addresses scheduling a set of jobs on a single machine for delivery in batches to one customer or to another machine for further processing. The problem is a natural extension of that of minimising the sum of ...
  • Situated practices of computer workarounds in a hospital medication system: A Case study 
    Azad B.; King N. (, 2008)
    Are computer workarounds temporary or routine, sign of resistance or acceptance, harmful or benign? The extant literature says they can be any of these. We surmise that this ambiguity reflects the modus operandi that content ...
  • Smart investments by smart money: Evidence from seasoned equity offerings 
    Gibson S.; Safieddine A.; Sonti R. (LAUSANNEPO BOX 564, 1001 LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND, 2004)
    We document that seasoned equity issuers experiencing the greatest increase in institutional investment around the offer date outperformed their benchmark portfolios in the year following the issue by a statistically and ...
  • SMS news alerts: Assessment of alternate subscription models 
    Baalbaki, Imad; Safa O.M.; Moukaddem A. (International Business Information Management Association, IBIMA;, 2007)
    Short Messaging Service (SMS) is a versatile GSM technology with a multitude of applications. Arabic News via SMS is one example. It is basically an alert service that consists of sending subscribers a short message to ...
  • Social Entrepreneurship in the Middle East 
    Jamali, Dima; Lanteri, Alessandro (Palgrave Macmillan, )
  • Social power and information technology implementation: A contentious framing lens 
    Azad B.; Faraj S. (MALDENCOMMERCE PLACE, 350 MAIN ST, MALDEN 02148, MA USA, 2011)
    Research on the organizational implementation of information technology (IT) and social power has favoured explanations based on issues of resource power and process power at the expense of matters of meaning power. As a ...
  • Socially responsible investment: Insights from Shari'a departments in Islamic financial institutions 
    Ullah S.; Jamali D.; Harwood I.A. (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd; HOBOKEN111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA, 2014)
    Islamic financial institutions (IFIs) are emerging as prominent players in the financial world and are increasingly known for their conservative socially responsible investment (SRI). Being the Shari'a regulators and ...

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