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What is the origin of game preferences and payoffs, how are they
aggregated and what are the implications of interdependent
preferences? What is the importance of information for building
game models? How can game models be used to analyse empirical
cases? At the cutting edge of current modelling in international
relations using non-cooperative game theory, this collection of
original contributions from political scientists and economists
explores some of the fundamental assumptions of game theory
modelling. It includes a theory of game payoff formation, a theory
of preference aggregation, thorough discussions of the effects of
interdependence between preferences upon various game structures,
in-depth analyses of the impact of incomplete information upon
dynamic games of negotiation, and a study using differential games.
Numerous illustrations, case studies and comparative case studies
show the relevance of the theoretical debate. The chapters are
organised to allow readers with a limited knowledge of game theory
to develop their understanding of the fundamental issues.
Containing theoretical discussion of the basic game theory
assumptions - as well as means of going beyond them - Game Theory
and International Relations will be welcomed by all those
interested in the empirical application of game theory models in
international relations.
The volume provides a field-analytical methodology for researching
knowledge-based sociopolitical processes of transnationalization.
Drawing on seminal work by Pierre Bourdieu, we apply concepts of
practice, habitus, and field to phenomena such as cross-national
social trajectories, international procedures of evaluation,
standardization, and certification, or supranational political
structures. These transnational phenomena form part of general
political struggles that legitimate social relationships in and
beyond the nation-state. Part 1 on methodological foundations
discusses the consequences of Bourdieu's epistemology and
methodology for theorizing and investigating transnational
phenomena. The contributions show the importance of
field-theoretical concepts for post-national insights. Part 2 on
investigating political fields presents exemplary case studies in
diverse research areas such as colonial imperialism, international
academic rankings, European policy fields, and local school policy.
While focusing on their research objects, the contributions also
give an insight into the mechanisms involved in processes of
transnationalization. The volume is an invitation for sociologists,
political scientists, and scholars in adjacent research areas to
engage with reflexive and relational research practice and to
further develop field-theoretical thought.
This book presents the huge variety of current contributions of game theory to economics. The impressive contributions fall broadly into two categories. Some lay out in a jargon free manner a particular branch of the theory, the evolution of one of its concepts, or a problem, that runs through its development. Others are original pieces of work that are significant to game theory as a whole. After taking the reader through a concise history of game theory, the contributions include such themes as: *the connections between Von Neumann's mathematical game theory and the domain assigned to him today *the strategic use of information by game players *the problem of the coordination of strategic choices between independent players *cooperative games and their place within the literature of games plus new developments in non-cooperative games *possible applications for game theory in industrial and financial economics differential qualitative games and entry dissuasion. eBook available with sample pages: 0203167406
This book presents the huge variety of current contributions of
game theory to economics. The impressive contributions fall broadly
into two categories. Some lay out in a jargon free manner a
particular branch of the theory, the evolution of one of its
concepts, or a problem, that runs through its development. Others
are original pieces of work that are significant to game theory as
a whole.
After taking the reader through a concise history of game theory,
the contributions include such themes as:
*the connections between Von Neumann's mathematical game theory and
the domain assigned to him today
*the strategic use of information by game players
*the problem of the coordination of strategic choices between
independent players
*cooperative games and their place within the literature of games
plus new developments in non-cooperative games
*possible applications for game theory in industrial and financial
economics differential qualitative games and entry dissuasion.
The volume provides a field-analytical methodology for researching
knowledge-based sociopolitical processes of transnationalization.
Drawing on seminal work by Pierre Bourdieu, we apply concepts of
practice, habitus, and field to phenomena such as cross-national
social trajectories, international procedures of evaluation,
standardization, and certification, or supranational political
structures. These transnational phenomena form part of general
political struggles that legitimate social relationships in and
beyond the nation-state. Part 1 on methodological foundations
discusses the consequences of Bourdieu's epistemology and
methodology for theorizing and investigating transnational
phenomena. The contributions show the importance of
field-theoretical concepts for post-national insights. Part 2 on
investigating political fields presents exemplary case studies in
diverse research areas such as colonial imperialism, international
academic rankings, European policy fields, and local school policy.
While focusing on their research objects, the contributions also
give an insight into the mechanisms involved in processes of
transnationalization. The volume is an invitation for sociologists,
political scientists, and scholars in adjacent research areas to
engage with reflexive and relational research practice and to
further develop field-theoretical thought.
This book presents a synthesis of the research carried out in the
Laboratory of Signal Processing and Communications (LaPSyC),
CONICET, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina, since 2003. It
presents models and techniques widely used by the signal processing
community, focusing on low-complexity methodologies that are
scalable to different applications. It also highlights measures of
the performance and impact of each compensation technique. The book
is divided into three parts: 1) basic models 2) compensation
techniques and 3) applications in advanced technologies. The first
part addresses basic architectures of transceivers, their component
blocks and modulation techniques. It also describes the performance
to be taken into account, regardless of the distortions that need
to be compensated. In the second part, several schemes of
compensation and/or reduction of imperfections are explored,
including linearization of power amplifiers, compensation of the
characteristics of analog-to- digital converters and CFO
compensation for OFDM modulation. The third and last part
demonstrates the use of some of these techniques in modern
wireless-communication systems, such as full-duplex transmission,
massive MIMO schemes and Internet of Things applications.
Modern complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS)
digital-to-analog converters (DACs) are limited in their bandwidth
due to technological constraints. These limitations can be overcome
by parallel DAC architectures, which are called interleaving
concepts. Christian Schmidt analyzes the limitations and the
potential of two innovative DAC interleaving concepts to provide
the basis for a practical implementation: the analog multiplexing
DAC (AMUX-DAC) and the frequency interleaving DAC (FI-DAC). He
presents analytical and discrete-time models as a theoretical
foundation and develops digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms
to compensate the analog impairments. Further, he quantifies the
impact of various limiting parameters with numerical simulations
and verifies both concepts in laboratory experiments. About the
Author: Christian Schmidt works at the Fraunhofer
Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, Berlin, Germany, on innovative solutions
for broadband signal generation in the field of optical
communications. The studies for his dissertation were carried out
at the Technische Universitat Berlin and at the Fraunhofer
Heinrich-Hertz-Institute, both Berlin, Germany.
This book presents a comprehensive overview of enterprise
architecture management with a specific focus on the business
aspects. While recent approaches to enterprise architecture
management have dealt mainly with aspects of information
technology, this book covers all areas of business architecture
from business motivation and models to business execution. The book
provides examples of how architectural thinking can be applied in
these areas, thus combining different perspectives into a
consistent whole. In-depth experiences from end-user organizations
help readers to understand the abstract concepts of business
architecture management and to form blueprints for their own
professional approach. Business architecture professionals,
researchers, and others working in the field of strategic business
management will benefit from this comprehensive volume and its
hands-on examples of successful business architecture
management practices. ​
This book presents a comprehensive overview of enterprise
architecture management with a specific focus on the business
aspects. While recent approaches to enterprise architecture
management have dealt mainly with aspects of information
technology, this book covers all areas of business architecture
from business motivation and models to business execution. The book
provides examples of how architectural thinking can be applied in
these areas, thus combining different perspectives into a
consistent whole. In-depth experiences from end-user organizations
help readers to understand the abstract concepts of business
architecture management and to form blueprints for their own
professional approach. Business architecture professionals,
researchers, and others working in the field of strategic business
management will benefit from this comprehensive volume and its
hands-on examples of successful business architecture management
practices.
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Are You Sleeping Little One (Board book)
Hans-Christian Schmidt; Illustrated by Andrea Nemet; Text written by Cynthia Vance; Translated by Laura Lindgren
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Discovery Miles 1 330
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Prepare little ones for bedtime with this whimsical book of simple
rhymes and gentle, soothing pictures. With lyrical rhymes, this
charming board book describes the sleeping habits of over a dozen
animals, including species both common and rare, from ducklings to
sloths, bats to giraffes. With its gentle rhymes and sweet,
soothing pictures Are You Sleeping, Little One? is the perfect way
for little ones (and parents!) to end the day.
Media narratives inform our ideas of the future - and Games are
currently making a significant contribution to this medial
reservoir. On the one hand, Games demonstrate a particular
propensity for fantastic and futuristic scenarios. On the other
hand, they often serve as an experimental field for the latest
media technologies. However, while dystopias are part of the
standard gaming repertoire, Games feature utopias much less
frequently. Why? This anthology examines playful utopias from two
perspectives. It investigates utopias in digital Games as well as
utopias of the digital game; that is, the role of ludic elements in
scenarios of the future.
Gaming no longer only takes place as a "closed interactive
experience" in front of TV screens, but also as broadcast on
streaming platforms or as cultural events in exhibition centers and
e-sport arenas. The popularization of new technologies, forms of
expression, and online services has had a considerable influence on
the academic and journalistic discourse about games. This anthology
examines which paratexts gaming cultures have produced - i.e., in
which forms and formats and through which channels we talk (and
write) about games - as well as the way in which paratexts
influence the development of games. How is knowledge about games
generated and shaped today and how do boundaries between (popular)
criticism, journalism, and scholarship have started to blur? In
short: How does the paratext change the text?
Game culture and material culture have always been closely linked.
Analog forms of rule-based play (ludus) would hardly be conceivable
without dice, cards, and game boards. In the act of free play
(paidia), children as well as adults transform simple objects into
multifaceted toys in an almost magical way. Even digital play is
suffused with material culture: Games are not only mediated by
technical interfaces, which we access via hardware and tangible
peripherals. They are also subject to material hybridization,
paratextual framing, and processes of de-, and re-materialization.
This book presents a synthesis of the research carried out in the
Laboratory of Signal Processing and Communications (LaPSyC),
CONICET, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina, since 2003. It
presents models and techniques widely used by the signal processing
community, focusing on low-complexity methodologies that are
scalable to different applications. It also highlights measures of
the performance and impact of each compensation technique. The book
is divided into three parts: 1) basic models 2) compensation
techniques and 3) applications in advanced technologies. The first
part addresses basic architectures of transceivers, their component
blocks and modulation techniques. It also describes the performance
to be taken into account, regardless of the distortions that need
to be compensated. In the second part, several schemes of
compensation and/or reduction of imperfections are explored,
including linearization of power amplifiers, compensation of the
characteristics of analog-to- digital converters and CFO
compensation for OFDM modulation. The third and last part
demonstrates the use of some of these techniques in modern
wireless-communication systems, such as full-duplex transmission,
massive MIMO schemes and Internet of Things applications.
Dieses Buch untersucht fiktionale und historiographische Texte des
Mittelalters und der Fruhen Neuzeit als Reflexionsmedien
politischer Redekultur. Es versammelt Beitrage aus Geschichts- und
Literaturwissenschaft und erprobt eine Verknupfung
literaturwissenschaftlicher Analysen mit Ansatzen der historischen
Oratorikforschung. Das Spektrum der untersuchten Textsorten umfasst
Notariatsinstrumente, Chroniken, hoefische Literatur, lateinische
und volkssprachliche Alexanderromane, historisch-politische
Ereignisdichtungen des Spatmittelalters und Geschichtsdramen des
16. Jahrhunderts.
Grundzuge qualitativer Mitarbeiterbefragungen werden
zusammengefasst und mit einem Leitfaden fur die Durchfuhrung
verbunden. Angesichts beschleunigten sozialen Wandels und
insbesondere digitaler Transformationsprozesse steigt der Bedarf
nach Organisationsentwicklung. Fur Mitarbeiter*innen ist dies mit
Unsicherheit auf verschiedenen Ebenen verbunden. Um Resignation und
Polarisierungen in Teams entgegenzuwirken, ist es wichtig,
Mitarbeiter*innen zu befragen und auf dieser Grundlage systematisch
in Transformationsprozesse einzubinden. Qualitative Verfahren
bieten aufgrund der Offenheit der Befragung hier entscheidende
Vorteile gegenuber standardisierten Instrumenten.
Christian Schmidt-Rost vergleicht die Jazzszenen in der DDR und
Polen und beschaftigt sich mit den transatlantischen
Transferprozessen, in die sie eingebunden waren. Sein Buch gibt
einen Einblick in den vielfaltigen Umgang mit der amerikanischen
Musik Jazz im Kalten Krieg. Dabei werden die Handlungsspielraume
von Herrschenden und Jazzern - Musikern, Organisatoren,
Journalisten, Fans - in den beiden staatssozialistischen
Gesellschaften untersucht und deren Wandel seit den 1950er Jahren
nachvollzogen. Der Autor macht deutlich, wie es den Jazzern gelang,
uber Medien, Verbande und Festivals blockubergreifende
Kommunikationsraume zu etablieren, wahrend die Musik zugleich fur
immer mehr Akteure zu einem Geschaft wurde. Seine Studie zeigt, wie
Jazz im Kalten Krieg ebenso polarisierte wie verband.
Feldanalytische Forschung entwickelt gegenstandsbezogene
Theorien mittlerer Reichweite aus dem Zusammenspiel von
theoretischen Grundorientierungen und empirischen
Forschungsobjekten. Die in Band 2 versammelten Beitrage stellen
Forschungsprojekte und -ergebnisse aus den Bereichen Wirtschaft,
(transnationale) Politik und Kunst vor. Das zentrale Anliegen der
Beitrage ist es, jeweilstypische Strukturen und Dynamiken
aufzuzeigen und daruber hinaus offenzulegen, auf welchen
methodologischen Entscheidungen und forschungs praktischen Logiken
die Feldanalyse fusst. So wird es moglich, die
forschungspragmatischen Einsichten einzelner Feldanalysen
disziplinen uber greifend fur andere Forschungskontexte nutzbar zu
machen. Die in diesem Band versammelten Beitrage zeigen, welches
Potenzial das Forschungsprogramm der Feldanalyse fur das Erklaren
und Verstehen unterschiedlicher sozialer Phanomene bereithalt.
Mit Beitragen u.a. von David Swartz, Niilo Kauppi, Frederic
Merand und Jorg Rossel."
Das Konzept des sozialen Feldes spielt eine zentrale Rolle in
Forschungen verschiedener sozialwissenschaftlicher Disziplinen. Die
in Band 1 versammelten Beitrage zeigen, dass feldanalytische
Arbeiten unterschiedlicher Provenienz aus einem gemeinsamen
Forschungsprogramm hervorgehen. Der Band ist in drei Abschnitte
gegliedert. Im ersten Teil sind Beitrage versammelt, die die
theoretischen und methodologischen Grundzuge des feldanalytischen
Forschungsprogramms herausarbeiten. Die Beitrage des zweiten Teils
stellen unterschiedliche Instrumente der gegenstandsbezogenen
Theoriebildung vor, wobei das Spektrum von teilnehmender
Beobachtung bis zur geometrischen Datenanalyse reicht. Der dritte
Teil widmet sich der Analyse des wissenschaftlichen Feldes.
Insgesamt gewahren die methodologisch, empirisch und reflexiv aus
gerichteten Beitrage des Bandes einen umfassenden Einblick in die
Forschungsdispositionen und -routinen des feldanalytischen
Forschungsprogramms. Mit Beitragen u.a. von Neil Fligstein, Rainer
Diaz-Bone, Johanna Hofbauer, Frederic Lebaron und Richard Munch.und
Richard Munch.
Christian Schmidt analysiert Theorie und Praxis des
Architekturmanagements. Ausgehend von mehreren empirischen
Untersuchungen identifziert er die wichtigsten Erfolgsfaktoren und
leitet hieraus konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen ab.
Berufliche Bildung ist wie kein anderer Bildungssektor an
Arbeitsmarktentwicklungen gekoppelt. Die Gewahrleistung der an sie
gerichteten Anspruche (Bildung, Fachkraftequalifikation,
Sozialisation) sind aktueller denn je im berufs- und
sozialwissenschaftlichen Fachdiskurs. Vor dem Hintergrund und mit
Blick auf die pandemiebedingten arbeitsmarktlichen und
sozialstrukturellen Verschiebungen liefert der Band mit
theoretischen und empirischen Beitragen eine Bestandsaufnahme der
beruflichen Bildung in Deutschland zu den Schwerpunkten UEbergange
und Inklusion junger Menschen, Europaisierung und
Internationalisierung beruflicher Bildung, Berufs- und
Arbeitsmarktpolitik.
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