In November 2016, UCL’s Global Governance Institute (GGI) hosted over 30 leading international practitioners and scholars in the field of climate change law, governance and policy for a workshop on the Paris Agreement and its potential to drive forward effective climate governance. The event was supported by the French Embassy in London as part of its Conference-Débat series. UCL Grand Challeng...

This report describes work funded under the DARPA Planning and Scheduling Initiative that led to the development of SOCAP (System for Operations Crisis Action Planning). In particular, it describes lessons learned in applying SIPE2, the underlying AI planning technology within SOCAP, to the domain of military operations deliberate and crisis action planning. SOCAP was demonstrated at the U.S. C...

and Symbolic Processes (the Cognitive Dimension), sponsored by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, was held on 16 July 1992 at the San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California. The workshop addressed the cognitive aspects of integrating neural and symbolic processes through the comparison, the categorization, and the examination of existing and new approaches. The workshop...

THIS ISSUE of Brookings Papers on Economic Activity contains papers and discussions presented at the forty-first conference of the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity, which was held in Washington, D.C., on April 3 and 4, 1986. Three major articles cover, respectively, the role of liquidity constraints in tax policy analysis, the perplexing relationship between short-term and long-term interes...

Economists have long observed that crowding out of government grants to private charities is incomplete. The accepted belief is that givers treat the grants as imperfect substitutes for private giving. We theoretically and empirically investigate a second reason: the strategic response of a charity will be to reduce fund-raising efforts after receiving a grant. Employing panel data from arts an...

Brief information is presented on the results of International scientific and practical conference «Science, Technology, Information in Libraries (Libway-2022)», which continued traditions 2018–2020 forums. This year, participants discussed topical issues, practices research field communications organization science, book culture library activities. The papers messages at plenary session, secti...

The PVM is a system for distributed processing implementations that offers tools for communication between tasks, like point to point messages and broadcasts, and tools to control the spawning of tasks. It was chosen due to the simplicity it allows in the implementation of message exchanges between the agents, and because it allows the definition of which workstation a process must run. Besides...

Shifts in the culture of civic engagement, technologies and practices surrounding social media, and pressure from political leaders have ignited a movement amongst gov’t agencies to extend their efforts for obtaining input on public issues. These projects face serious challenges related to scale of participation and political capture, though collaborative efforts elsewhere suggest we may be abl...

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