Participatory budgeting [1], which started in South America, is now gaining popularity in the US, with cities like San Francisco, Vallejo, Boston, Chicago and New York adopting this paradigm [6]. With decisions involving millions of dollars across the nation being made this way, a question arises as to how to design voting schemes to aggregate the voters’ preferences into a meaningful budget de...

Design principles play a central role in the architecture of the Internet as driving most engineering decisions at conception level and operational level. This paper is based on the EC Future Internet Architecture (FIArch) Group results and identifies some of the design principles that we expect to govern the future architecture of the Internet. We believe that it may serve as a starting point ...

In this short paper we present a technology brief on current Internet trends in its migration towards a communications infrastructure that may support business to business communications. In particular we look at the notion of policy managed networks and existing technologies that may be integrated to meet this goal in some way. Finally, we present some research issues that need to be resolved ...

If nature realizes T eV scale gravity, we are entering a very exciting period in which we could be able to address, experimentally, some questions on quantum gravity, strings, branes and other exotic aspects of the fundamental theory of gravity. This article reviews recent development in models with Large Extra Dimensions and Black hole production at future colliders. Experimental results from ...

the notion of a $d$-poset was introduced in a connection withquantum mechanical models. in this paper, we introduce theconditional expectation of  random variables on thek^{o}pka's $d$-poset and prove the basic properties ofconditional expectation on this  structure.

If nature realizes T eV scale gravity, we are entering a very exciting period in which we could be able to address, experimentally, some questions on quantum gravity, strings, branes and other exotic aspects of the fundamental theory of gravity. This article reviews recent development in models with Large Extra Dimensions and Black hole production at future colliders. Experimental results from ...

The current study draws on the collective futures framework to examine how visions of future societies where most people consume plant-based, vegetarian or vegan diets are related to current support for social change towards plant-based diets. Participants were 506 university students in Aotearoa New Zealand invited to imagine a society in 2050 where most individuals consume a plant-based, vege...