The paper studies the questions of why and when a supply chain should invest in a traceability
system that allows the identification of which supplier is responsible for quality defects …

This paper introduces a game theoretic model of groundwater extraction in a two-cell aquifer
under incomplete information. A novel assumption is that individual users have incomplete …

This paper analyzes a repeated games model of collective reputation with imperfect public
monitoring and perfect local peer monitoring of efforts. Even when peer monitoring is local, …

This empirical paper investigates how duration of conservation tillage (CT) usage affects
farmers’ perceptions on production cost, cash crop yields, and economic returns. This paper …

… Saak is a research scientist at the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development,
Department of Economics, Iowa State University. David A. Hennessy is professor, Department of …

We consider the model of task scheduling in Grid systems that can be represented by the
first coordinate quadrant. The process of task scheduling is based on the parity of processor …

A monopolist selling a single unit prefers to let potential buyers privately know only whether
the buyer's valuation is definitely above or below the unit production cost.

Farm size is a significant determinant of both groundwater irrigated farm acreage and
groundwater irrigation application rates per unit land area. This paper analyzes the patterns of …

The paper is devoted to the scheduling problem in Grid systems with centralized structure of
scheduling system and resources co-allocation that are modeled by resource quadrants. …

Users' demand in computer power and rise of technology favour the arrival of Grid systems.
The quality of Grid systems' performance depends on computer and time resources …