We report new experimental evidence of the household response to weekday differentials in peak and off-peak electricity prices. The data come from Auckland, New Zealand, where peak residential electricity consumption ...

We describe a new process for creating points systems for prioritising patients for elective health services. Beginning in 2004, the authors were closely involved in a project to develop the process, initially for coronary ...

This thesis proposes an analytic framework of tourism history and discusses its value for a tourist destination’s analysis. Employing a tourism history perspective, the thesis focuses on Koh Samui case study as a reference. ...

Although expectations play an important role in designing cognitive agents, agent expectations are not explicitly being handled in most common agent programming environments. There are techniques for monitoring fulfilment ...

We analyse the impact of proposed changes in US legislation to allow greater use of dairy concentrate products in the production of fresh milk products. This change could potentially have a large impact on dairy trade as ...

This paper analyses an entry timing game with uncertain entry costs. Two firms receive costless signals about the cost of a new project and decide when to invest. We characterize the equilibrium of the investment timing ...

The media plays an important role in the delivery of marketing communications messages to consumers, and changes to the mode of transmission and formatting options permitted by different media influence the way messages ...

Human societies have long cultivated the ability to organise themselves into groups and have also established formal or informal rules of behaviour that are expected within these groups. In the field of multi-agent systems, ...

This study investigates different entry modes and staffing practices, and their influence on performance in Japanese subsidiaries in Australia and New Zealand. Company data were derived from the Toyo Keizai data bank of ...

The paper explores the history of Geographical Information System (GIS) use in order to understand what problems can be faced by city retail planners utilizing the technology. Different GIS software packages and system ...