Alternating offer games and private rulings of the Australian Tax Office

The concept of submitting oneself to a voluntary negotiation is by no means new to big business. Formal bargaining has been quite successful over the years in providing the venue for agents to explore a more logical and mathematical approach to bargaining. However in more recent times external influences have been applied to agents who provide better deals for favored executives. This external influence has displayed itself in taxtion negotiations to the extent that tax office agents have been dismissed for irresponsible conduct. We explore this specific type of negotiation using an alternating offer bargaining game to model the particular influences, which create unfair rulings in negotiations. By the constraints of this systematic mathematical approach to negotiation, we will explore the advantages of a more formal game theoretic approach. In this presentation we will also elaborate on finding Nash Equilibrium in alternating offer games.

Da fantasia à realidade, da realidade à fantasia: aspectos culturais, históricos e mercadológicos das campanhas publicitárias de games

A pesquisa tem como objetivo geral compreender como as empresas fabricantes de consoles de videogames da última geração (Sony, Microsoft e Nintendo) utilizam a publicidade para atingir os consumidores. O corpus de análise e interpretação delimita-se em oito peças publicitárias audiovisuais e o período de análise é de 2010 a 2011. As estratégicas metodológicas utilizadas são: quanto aos dados de pesquisa, o estudo é essencialmente qualitativo; em relação aos objetivos, a pesquisa é exploratória; quanto às fontes para obtenção de dados, a pesquisa é bibliográfica e empírica, sendo a fase empírica dividida em observação não-participante, descrição dos anúncios de games e análise de conteúdo audiovisual. Após as análises, demonstrou-se que, apesar de os games estarem na vida cotidiana e serem sonho de consumo de muitas pessoas, sua divulgação ainda é restrita a um número limitado de jogadores. Observa-se que, nas campanhas analisadas como um conjunto, há uma preocupação maior com o público adulto, o que não ocorria há cinco anos, na geração anterior de consoles. Apesar disso, os consoles ainda não são enxergados com todas as suas potencialidades tecnológicas e culturais.

Creating gusto through games and goals

Goal-based learning (GBL) has long been used for teaching (Schank and Kass, 1996) and training (Collins, 1994), and game playing is also very widely used (Fudenberg and Levine, 1998). When both are used together it can become a winning combination that focuses students? attention, dismisses precepts about a subject, lowers barriers to preferred learning-styles and open minds to new tools, ideas and concepts. The combination can be achieved using basic traditional physical props (e.g. pens and paper) or advanced internet technology. This report briefly describes an offline and online approach and then summarises some of the main benefits to be gained from combining games and goals to get students going in the right pedagogical direction.

Linked data flows in multi-player games for servitisation

The increased data complexity and task interdependency associated with servitization represent significant barriers to its adoption. The outline of a business game is presented which demonstrates the increasing complexity of the management problem when moving through Base, Intermediate and Advanced levels of servitization. Linked data is proposed as an agile set of technologies, based on well established standards, for data exchange both in the game and more generally in supply chains.