THE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTS. By Oscar Kempthorne. New York, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1952. 631 pp. $8.50. This book by a teacher of statistics (as well as a consultant for \"experimenters\") is a comprehensive study of the philosophical background for the statistical design of experiment. It is necessary to have some facility with algebraic notation and manipulation to be able to use the volume intelligently. The problems are presented from the theoretical point of view, without such practical examples as would be helpful for those not acquainted with mathematics. The mathematical justification for the techniques is given. As a somewhat advanced treatment of the design and analysis of experiments, this volume will be interesting and helpful for many who approach statistics theoretically as well as practically. With emphasis on the \"why,\" and with description given broadly, the author relates the subject matter to the general theory of statistics and to the general problem of experimental inference. MARGARET J. ROBERTSON

The Design and Analysis of Experiments

Data Mining - Concepts and Techniques.

Part I. Experimental Studies: 2. Experiment in psychology 3. Experiments on perceiving III Experiments on imaging 4-8. Experiments on remembering: (a) The method of description (b) The method of repeated reproduction (c) The method of picture writing (d) The method of serial reproduction (e) The method of serial reproduction picture material 9. Perceiving, recognizing, remembering 10. A theory of remembering 11. Images and their functions 12. Meaning Part II. Remembering as a Study in Social Psychology: 13. Social psychology 14. Social psychology and the matter of recall 15. Social psychology and the manner of recall 16. Conventionalism 17. The notion of a collective unconscious 18. The basis of social recall 19. A summary and some conclusions.

Remembering. A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology, Cambridge (University Press) 1964.

The 2008 crash has left all the established economic doctrines - equilibrium models, real business cycles, disequilibria models - in disarray. Part of the problem is due to Smith’s "veil of ignorance": individuals unknowingly pursue society’s interest and, as a result, have no clue as to the macroeconomic effects of their actions: witness the Keynes and Leontief multipliers, the concept of value added, fiat money, Engel’s law and technical progress, to name but a few of the macrofoundations of microeconomics. A good viewpoint to take bearings anew lies in comparing the post-Great Depression institutions with those emerging from Thatcher and Reagan’s economic policies: deregulation, exogenous vs. endoge- nous money, shadow banking vs. Volcker’s Rule. Very simply, the banks, whose lending determined deposits after Roosevelt, and were a public service became private enterprises whose deposits determine lending. These underlay the great moderation preceding 2006, and the subsequent crash.

The Economic Institutions of Capitalism

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The Theory of Industrial Organization

With negotiation being an often difficult process involving complex problems, computerbased support has been employed in its various phases and tasks. This chapter provides a historical overview of software used to support negotiations, aid negotiators, and automate one or more negotiation activities. First, it presents several system classifications, architectures and configurations. Then, it focuses on negotiation support systems (NSSs) and related systems introduced in the early 1980s, and on e-negotiation systems (ENSs), which are deployed on the web. These broad categories are discussed from four perspectives: reallife applications, systems used in research and training, research results, and research frameworks.

Negotiation Support and E-negotiation Systems

E-business systems, the most recent generation of information systems, can be effectively used in teaching. One such system was developed and used in a collaborative project that involved teaching of negotiation theory and practice to students from Austria and Canada. The system provides customized course materials and a platform to conduct various e-negotiation activities. The design allows combining e-learning technologies designed to support students in their independent and individual learning with conventional face-to-face training. Our experience indicates that professional negotiation training accompanied by e-learning, and tools to support decision-making and negotiation can foster students' appreciation of the technology as well as demonstrate its limitations. The combination of technology-intensive and conventional resources contributed to students' awareness of social influences on negotiations, importance of communication, and focussed their attention on the problem and its solution. Deeper customization of the course content and delivery may further contribute to effective learning and acquiring of both communication and analytical skills.

On-line/Off-line: Joint Negotiation Teaching in Montreal and Vienna

Software is viewed as an artifact which interacts with cultures of societies in which it functions. Software manufacturers make efforts to adapt the appearance of their products to aesthetic and historical values of the markets in which they are sold (“software for cultures”). It is well known that software embeds behavioral and organizational principles that are culture-determined (“cultures in software”). Internet and e-commerce bring these phenomena into the fore of the debate on societal implications of Information Technology. The paper argues for a research agenda on the multifaceted interactions between software and culture.

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The Software for Cultures and the Cultures in Software

An e-market system is a concrete implementation of a market institution; it embeds one or more exchange mechanisms. E-market systems are also information systems which are information and communication technologies artifacts. This work puts forward an argument that the study of e-markets must incorporate both the behavioral economics as well as the information systems perspectives. To this end the paper proposes a conceptual framework that integrates the two. This framework is used to formulate a model, which incorporates the essential features of exchange mechanisms, as well as their implementations as is artefacts. The focus of attention is on two classes of mechanisms, namely auctions and negotiations. They both may serve the same purpose and their various types have been embedded in many e-market systems.

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On Comparison of Mechanisms of Economic and Social Exchanges: The Times Model

Electronic negotiations are conflict management and resolution processes conducted on the internet and supported with software. This chapter provides a historical overview of software used in conducting negotiations and aiding negotiators. It recognizes the contributions to the design of negotiation models and systems coming from management science, engineering and management information systems as well as the more recent ones coming from psychology, communication research (see the chapter by Schoop, this volume) and computer science (see the chapter by Sycara and Dai, this volume). Special attention is given to the relationship between the design and engineering of e-negotiation systems and the socio-psychological and anthropological aspects of negotiations that involve people. The discussion on e-negotiation systems and processes is grounded in negotiation process models (see the chapter by Koeszegi and Vetschera, this volume), e-negotiation taxonomy, exchange mechanism design, and protocol theory. The chapter reviews and analyses several e-negotiation systems used in business and academia, including negotiation software platforms used in supply chain systems as well as in research and training.

Gregory E. Kersten

Papers

Negotiation Support and E-negotiation Systems

On-line/Off-line: Joint Negotiation Teaching in Montreal and Vienna

The Software for Cultures and the Cultures in Software

On Comparison of Mechanisms of Economic and Social Exchanges: The Times Model

Electronic Negotiations: Foundations, Systems, and Processes