R apid growth in the reach and influence of global governance arrangements has triggered broad concern among citizens and scholars alike about the lack of democratic accountability in global politics. This important question bears directly on the legitimacy of global governance regimes and on the prospects for democratizing power in the supranational context (Nye 2001). Keohane (2006) sees the ...

Most research tools are publicly available but rarely used due to the difficulty of building them, which hinders the sharing of ideas. However, web browsers have recently become an excellent platform for giving portable demos. Researchers could enable their tools to run on a web browser by compiling them into JavaScript. Making tools accessible on the web would facilitate trying new tools witho...

During the first six months of the course of the project we have created 3 major demonstration scenarios and a number of minor scenarios for testing purposes. All of the scenarios utilize the same environment, a hypothetical island with towns, harbors, airports, resource storages, roads etc. This virtual world is powered by the ACROSS2 simulation platform. Various parameters of all demos can be...

The main objective of this deliverable is to provide a set of proof-of-concept prototypes to illustrate some particular solutions developed within CORTEX. Additionally , these proof-of-concept prototypes should also be seen as technology demonstrators , which will provide relevant input for the construction of integrated CORTEX demo applications (see deliverable WP4-D8). More specifically, this...

1.0 Preferential Subject 1 (Planning and Operation) The theme for Preferential Subject 1 is “Planning and operation of Distribution networks incorporating Dispersed Energy Resources (DER) and Renewables Energy Sources (RES)”. The items which will be touched upon are:  Effect of large scale integration on reliability.  Provision of ancillary services by DER/RES.  Regulatory schemes to support...

“WWW Resources for Teaching Statistics,” Robin H. Lock, Mathematics Department, St. Lawrence University. Presented at a Statistics Education conference of the Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association in 1998, this paper provides a rich set of resources to support statistics instruction, including online course materials and texts, JAVA demos, ejournals and discussion lists, and lo...

C. S. Liu,1,2 C. J. Hou,1 Nicholas Kioussis,2 S. G. Demos,3 and H. B. Radousky3 1Key Laboratory of Materials Physics, Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. O. Box 1129, Hefei 230031, People’s Republic of China 2Department of Physics, California State University, Northridge, California 91330-8268, USA 3Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, C...