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Adaptive auction protocol for task assignment in wireless sensor and actuator networks
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2020 The development of wireless sensor and actuator network is leading to high complexity networks and subsequently, new challenges in task assignment for effective sensor–actuator coordination.
Lu Wang +4 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT European agriculture is increasingly exposed to economic instability driven by extreme weather events, market volatility, and geopolitical tensions. To manage these growing risks, farmers are encouraged to adopt innovative risk management strategies such as the Income Stabilization Tool (IST), which offers protection against severe income ...
Alice Stiletto +5 more
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Journal of Environmental Geography, 2018 In many years excess water inundations generate a major obstacle to farming in the lowland part of Hungary, including the Marosszög area. Diverting water to large distances requires an infrastructure that is costly to develop and maintain. Alternatively,
Ungvári Gábor +3 more
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Auctions and the German UMTS-Auction
Mitteilungen der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung, 2001 Summary: The German UMTS-Auction in August 2000 attracted, like similar auctions in Great Britain and The Netherlands earlier in the year 2000, a lot of public attention and money. At this auction 4 to 6 licenses to offer third generation cell-phone service in Germany were on the block to be sold, raising a total revenue of 98.8072 BDM.
de Vries, Sven, Vohra, Rakesh
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Bribery and Favoritism by Auctioneers in Sealed-Bid Auctions [PDF]
The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2007 We consider a model of bribery in an asymmetric procurement auction. In return for a bribe from the dishonest supplier, the auctioneer has the discretion to allow this supplier to revise his bid downward to match the low bid of the honest supplier. The dishonest supplier can also win the contract outright without paying a bribe by bidding below the ...
Roberto Burguet, Martin Perry
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Programmable Flocks: Hierarchical Swarm Control via Dynamic Parameter Injection
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.We present a method for the control of robot swarms which allows the shaping and the translation of patterns of simple robots (“smart particles”), using two types of devices. These two types represent a hierarchy: a larger group of simple, oblivious robots (which we call the workers) that is governed by simple local attraction forces and a smaller ...
Vivek Shankar Varadharajan +1 more
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The auction model with lower risk in duopolistic electricity market
Económica, 2012 The present paper models the electricity market auction as a two-person game with incomplete information under the assumption that bidders are symmetric, risk neutral and have independent private costs.
Estrella Alonso, Juan Tejada
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Legal Protection of Our Guarantee Object Owners After Low Limit Value
Yurisdiksi: Jurnal Wacana Hukum dan Sains, 2020 writing of this journal aims to be able to know, analyze and understand about legal protection to the owner of the collateral object for the implementation of the auction with a low limit value. The legal analysis in this journal is focused on being able
Fatimah Zahra, Habib Adjie
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Truthful Mechanism for Crowdsourcing Task Assignment
Tsinghua Science and Technology, 2018 As an emerging “human problem solving strategy”, crowdsourcing has attracted much attention where requesters want to employ reliable workers to complete specific tasks. Task assignment is an important branch of crowdsourcing.
Yonglong Zhang +5 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt +6 more
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