Accountability and social control: how the process works

How Social Sensing Works

In this article, we show how the use of state-of-the-art methods in computer science based on machine perception and learning allows the unobtrusive capture and automated analysis of interpersonal behavior in real time (social sensing). Given the high ecological validity of the behavioral sensing, the ease of behavioral-cue extraction for large groups over long observation periods in the field,...

Process evaluation: how it works.

Process evaluation helps us to understand the planning process. This predominantly qualitative approach explains how and why decisions are made and activities undertaken. The focus includes feelings and perceptions of program staff. The evaluator's ability to interpret and longitudinally summarize the experience of program staff and community members is critical. Techniques discussed include pa...

Closing Troubled Banks: How the Process Works

B usiness failure typically occurs when a financially weak firm can no longer pay its creditors. Failure generally involves a series of steps. First, the firm suffers losses. Second, when the firm’s creditors learn of the losses, they increase their estimate of the firm’s probability of default. To compensate themselves for this increased risk, creditors demand higher interest rates or require ...

Accountability and Control of Process Creation in the Legion Metasystem

A metacomputing environment, or metasystem, is a collection of geographically separated resources (people, computers, devices, databases) connected by one or more high-speed networks. The distinguishing feature of a metasystem is middleware that facilitates viewing the collection of resources as a single virtual machine. The traditional requirements of security mechanisms and policies in a sing...

How the mind works.