This paper extends the interval Hotelling model with quadratic transport costs to the n−player case. For a large set of locations including potential equilibrium configurations, we show for n > 2 that firms neither ...

Die Frage nach dem, was Mythos sei, oder was vielmehr ihn ausmache, verweist zurück an jene Zeit, als das Tier aufgehört hatte, ein Tier zu sein. Das, was von jenem fortlebte, hatte die Sprache und nannte sich Mensch.

The most time consuming part of a taxonomic description is to make the illustrations. This contribution shows how to save time by omitting the pencil drawings of arthropod appendages and replacing them by microphotographies. ...

The significance of standards in international agricultural trade is continuously rising. Due to their complexity, especially private industry standards are often expected to have a negative impact on agricultural export ...

A total number of 432 German journals in 2000 and 427 journals in 2005 listed in the Science Edition of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) were analysed. The study showed that the portion of German journals entering ...

Information quality plays a crucial role in every application that integrates data from autonomous sources. However, information quality is hard to measure and complex to consider for the tasks of information integration, ...

Interorganizational cooperation is more and more organized by the paradigm of services. The service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides a general framework for service interaction. It describes three roles, service ...

Two simple rules for solving conflicts and for ordering the firings of tronsitions in a Petri net are studied: 1. The "Maximum Strategy" (Salwicki, Müldner) whereby maximal sets of simultaneously fireble transitions are ...