In the present Part I, we will present some fundamental notions frequently used in economics. The sequence of the ideas to be discussed is not chosen arbitrarily. On the contrary, the discussion of each concept will generate a question leading directly to the following one. At the beginning of our journey through economic thinking we refer to the observation that human beings are endowed (and b...

In the present Part I, we will present some fundamental notions frequently used in economics. The sequence of the ideas to be discussed is not chosen arbitrarily. On the contrary, the discussion of each concept will generate a question leading directly to the following one. At the beginning of our journey through economic thinking we refer to the observation that human beings are endowed (and b...

In the present Part I, we will present some fundamental notions frequently used in economics. The sequence of the ideas to be discussed is not chosen arbitrarily. On the contrary, the discussion of each concept will generate a question leading directly to the following one. At the beginning of our journey through economic thinking we refer to the observation that human beings are endowed (and b...

Improvement in memory speeds has not kept pace with increasing processor speed. Consequently, the gap between processor and memory speed is growing. In order to meet the computational needs of the next decade, the design projects of PetaFlop computer introduce many levels of memory hierarchy with huge amount of speed differences between levels. As one of the design point for PetaFlop computers,...

Hierarchies are a ubiquitous form of human social organization. We hypothesized that 1 reason for the prevalence of hierarchies is that they offer structure and therefore satisfy the core motivational needs for order and control relative to less structured forms of social organization. This hypothesis is rooted in compensatory control theory, which posits that (a) individuals have a basic need ...

In an information systems context, information privacy communication will only work if information systems meet the information needs of their users. Since the needs are neither static nor uniform, a promising approach avoiding inadequacies of ignoring differences in users’ information needs and more practical than dedicated attention to each individual user is to target information privacy com...

Standard operating systems provide only a single fixed scheduler, which does not meet all possible application scheduling needs. More flexibility can be achieved using a hierarchy of schedulers, allowing multiple schedulers to coexist in a single operating system (OS). Bossa is a framework for facilitating the implementation and deployment of OS process schedulers. In this paper, we describe th...