French government has launch in 2000 a public debate about conservation of data and electronic documents. Due to the widespread use of Internet and extranet technologies, especially with electronic document exchange, we had have to adapt the politic of document conservation to this new challenge: “avoid the lack of memory in public administration”. A guide-book was produced. This guide-book is ...

In the interest of stimulating debate, we present a broad, allinclusive view of aspect-oriented programming (AOP) and related initiatives. In particular, we contrast the compelling vision used to ‘sell’ the idea of AOP with the more finicky nature of its realizations to date. We outline a scenario that we feel AOP ought at least aspire to address, and ask whether the direction it is currently f...

Despite intense research on grammaticalization, no satisfactory definition has so far been proposed. Some would argue that it is indeed impossible to come up with a precise as grammaticalization an epiphenomenon. After pointing out problems in existing definitions, this article proposes new of distinct kind change. The based not only the theory lexical–grammatical distinction Boye & Harder (201...

This report is our second one at the MUSICNETWORK open workshop focusing on the user experiments in the Integrated Media Systems Center’s Distributed Immersive Performance (DIP) Project. The DIP project explores the creation of a seamless environment for remote and synchronous musical collaboration. We describe here the DIP experiments and findings since the last MUSICNETWORK open workshop. At ...

Many algorithms for FPT graph problems are search tree algorithms with sophisticated local branching rules. But it has also been noticed that using the global structure of input graphs complements the the search tree paradigm. Here we prove some new results based on the global structure of bounded-degree graphs after branching away the high-degree vertices. Some techniques and structural result...

Virtual Enterprises are ICT-enabled business-cooperation structures that can derive a substantial support from the use of agent technology. However, this poses a series of legal issues that have to be adequately tackled in the light of available legal tools, from applicable rules and regulations in force, to private agreements and usage. This short paper does not aim at providing consolidated r...

problemsTo understand the class of polynomial-time solvable problems, we must first have a formalnotion of what a "problem" is. We define an abstract problem Q to be a binary relation on aset I of problem instances and a set S of problem solutions. For example, an instance forSHORTEST-PATH is a triple consisting of a graph and two vertices. A solution is a sequenceof vertice...

Organizational Memory (OM) is regarded as an imperative implementation for organizations striving for innovation and competitive advantage. Yet, to date, there is no accepted and comprehensive methodology for developing OM. This study attempts to take a first step in this direction by concentrating on the evaluation of OM. We approach this challenge with ontology for the Organizational Memory (...

Background: In the early part of the twentieth century, planning theory and practice always voiced strong opposition to density. The error of this insistence was persuasively argued by Jane Jacobs in the 1960s. Subsequently, planning theory and practice came to recognise the importance of density, but this return to favour requires remaining constantly alert to the possible dangers and pitfalls...

THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE NATURE and function of various political processes which affect resource allocation to libraries and explores how to analyze these processes accurately. It discusses the marketing of library “products” through supplementing traditional measures of input and output with considerations of impact and by seeking to adapt and express library products in terms of the cognit...