among british playwrights , george bernard shaw is a dramatist who envisages the hermeneutics o f history with a m ore challenging perspective w hich approximates him to a modern o utlook. i n this regard, he manages to attune his philosophy of history ( best exposed in a 1923 p lay by t he name of s aint joan ) with the idea of f . w . hegel, t he nineteenth - c entury german th inker , and hi...

The choice of data structure is an important decision in any sofhvare project. Application developers do not necessarily have a good understanding of how a particular system manages its data structures and how this might influence performance. In this paper we provide visualisations representing the behaviour of dijferent data structures in an object oriented distributed database system. The da...

FSA/KB is an Object-Oriented Knowledge Base System of the Software Development Environment FSA (Fudan Software Automation). It manages various kinds of knowledge in an uniform Object-Oriented fashion. The knowledge it manages includes: descriptions of all FSA components, programming knowledge in rule form, user domain knowledge and products in the process of program transformation (eg., speciic...

We describe a real implementation of a software component that manages caching of files from a tertiary storage management system to a large disk cache developed for use in the area of High Energy Physics (HEP) analysis. This component, called the Cache Manager, is a part of a Storage Access Coordination System (STACS), and is responsible for the interaction with a mass storage system that mana...

This paper describes a national eHealth platform concept with a multi-level privacy protection in order to improve the security and privacy of medical information on their storage locations as well as during the exchanging/sharing processes. The key idea is to classify and split-up data into different servers. A Trusted Third Party server manages personal identifying data together with the rela...

The production and the maintenance of a software system require that many components and relationships between them, all describing the system, be managed. Many descriptions of these components are produced and maintained by automatic tools. During the whole software life cycle many tools are needed and usually each of them manages only a subset of the required information. This creates several...

With the large-scale production of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs), a new entity, the PEV fleet aggregator manages charging and discharging processes of the vehicles. The main objective of an individual aggregator in interaction with electricity markets is maximizing its profit. In this paper, the performance of this aggregator in day-ahead and real-time electricity markets, considering (a) cu...

In the Iranian economy, part of the governmentchr('39')s fiscal policies and liabilities is always financed by banks. As government debt to banks increases, the private sectorchr('39')s access to loans and facilities is limited. It can cause undesirable macroeconomic outcomes. This study investigates the macroeconomic effects of government debt on banks in Iran over 1972–2016 by using an SVAR m...