This research is based on theories of federalized party systems, second-order elections and nationalization system comparing long-established democratic federations in terms actual autonomy their subnational systems. The study shows that despite obvious prerequisites for (such as federal institutions, different timing elections, freedom to establish regional parties blocs) most have created sol...

This paper proposes an information model for a registry of learning object repositories (LOR). This is a work in progress and will be used as a starting point for a discussion on LOR registries organized during the SE@M’08 workshop.

Because federalism can be a threat to accountability, a model of voting behavior in federations must accommodate voters' attributions of responsibility to each order of government for policy outcomes. This study uses a panel survey of Canadians in both federal and provincial elections to ask whether voters are able to hold governments accountable in a federal context. Voters may ignore issues w...

Jini is an infrastructure for spontaneous ad hoc service networks. It allows clients to find services without prior knowledge of their network surroundings. For service interaction proxy objects are used which are supplied by service providers. These proxy objects interact directly with the service provider. Compared to architectures that use a virtually central communications broker (like a CO...

A number of successful AI-supported Digital Twin(DT) applications that foster sustainable developmentgoals in three main areas are summarized. Finally, astandardized conceptual framework for leveraging AIsupportedDT federations is identified as future work.

The ability of federal states to manage the COVID-19 pandemic has created much debate. Federations differ considerably in way they have been tackling crisis, however. To shed light on how European federations (Austria, Germany, Switzerland) managed COVID-19, this paper distinguishes two dimensions decision making: centralised/decentralised and unilateral/coordinated making. Drawing official gov...

SCM products are large and monolithic, difficult to adapt and evolve, with high entry cost. This paper describes a new approach to SCM in which the system is built from, potentially heterogeneous, existing pieces, with assembly mechanisms that enforce high-level properties. The approach does not provide a simple SCM tool, but a family of tools that is easily customized, fits both lowend users (...

Research about software processes modelling and support, even during the last decade, has suffered from a lack of practical credibility. Most of the solutions proposed have not gained wide acceptance by the software industry and, moreover, some fundamental issues like evolution have not yet found any reasonable solution. For these reasons, it was a clear decision in the PIE project to build a p...

sociologists including structuralists and trans-structuralists emphatically believe in interpreting sports rules ideologically and also believe that a number of factors such as power of personality, organization and economic situation are involved. this research studies the relationship between personality power, economic, social and organizational resources with ideologically interpreting the ...