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Does anyone on this list have electronic access to this journal/article. I need to get a copy in a hurry and the Oxford library "physical" copy of this volume can't be traced ... Ball, C. T., Langholtz, H. J., Auble, J. and Sopchak, B. (1998) 'Resource Allocation Strategies: A Verbal Protocol Analysis', <i>Organisational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes</i>, <b>76</b>(1), October, pp. 70-88. [The current study examined the strategies used by people to solve resource-allocation problems. Verbal protocols were recorded as participants provided meal choices for seven consecutive days with limited resources available to spend on meals and with daily constraints imposed on meal consumption. None of the participants incorporate the established mathematical procedures (Linear Programming) to arrive at the optimum number of meals possible in a week. However, the strategies they did use enabled them to achieve meal totals on average at 94% of this optimal amount. A few participants attempted to first solve the maximum meals possible in a week before scheduling this solution across the seven days (solve-and-schedule strategy), but the majority of participants simply selected meals on a day-to-day basis while checking resource availability each day to allow for full resource consumption (consume-and-check strategy). The findings of this study provide a preliminary step toward understanding how people make intuitive resource-allocation decisions.] -- ======================================================================== Edmund Chattoe: Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, Manor Road Oxford, OX1 3UQ tel: 01865-286174 fax: 01865-286171 Review Editor Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS) "So act as to treat humanity, whether in your own person or in another, always as an end, and never as only a means." (Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles) Nuffield Foundation New Career Development Fellow and Research Fellow, Nuffield College. More data here http://www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/people/chattoe.html ========================================================================