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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Multi-Agent-Based Simulation, MABS 2003, held in Melbourne, Australia as part of AAMAS 2003. The 11 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on MABS techniques for MAS; economics, exchange, and influence in virtual worlds; MABS techniques for real-world modelling, and understanding and classifying MABS.
"This book provides applications of nature inspired computing for economic theory and practice, finance and stock-market, manufacturing systems, marketing, e-commerce, e-auctions, multi-agent systems and bottom-up simulations for social sciences and operations management"--Provided by publisher.
This report analyses current trends of adaptation finance provided and mobilised by developed countries for developing countries. It explores potential action areas for international providers to scale up funding for climate change adaptation, including by unlocking the potential of the private sector.
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In Comparative Patent Remedies, Thomas Cotter provides a critical and comparative analysis of patent enforcement in the United States and other major patent systems, including the European Union, Japan, Canada, Australia, China, South Korea, Taiwan, and India.
Mitigating the Risks of a 21st Century Climate Switch (to global cooling) and Running Out of Oil and Gas: There is an urgent need to prepare the world for a 21st century climate switch to a cooling phase, and this current grand solar minimum is a prime time for that switch. The world will face natural climate change-related risks during the current grand solar minimum—risks dismissed or ignored by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) because of its constraining Articles 1 and 2. Solar scientists expert in climate change are warning us of a 21st century global cooling, but the IPCC process has dismissed their science and that of other climate sub-disciplines. Climate-forcing...
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Heisman Trophy winner and college football star Michael Levesque returns home to his parents’ mansion in New Orleans for Easter, to find that his father, a wealthy oil tycoon, has purchased a beautiful, but dilapidated Mississippi river-front antebellum mansion, that he intends to demolish to make way for a new oil refinery. Michael and his sister are appalled by their father’s plans and set out to save the house. They soon become aware of the mansions historical importance, and are both troubled by eerie glimpses of the past. Ultimately, Michael finds himself on an impossible journey that leads him back to the mansion at the time of the Civil War. There he meets a beautiful young woman, one of the early owners of the mansion, and he becomes involved in a life and death struggle to save the house, and its beautiful owner, from the ravages of the war and the designs of a renegade Union cavalry officer.
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