By summarizing Khachiyan's algorithm and Karmarkar's algorithm forlinear program (LP) a unified methodology for the design of polynomial-time algorithms for LP is presented in this paper. A key concept is the so-called extended binary search (EBS) algorithm introduced by the author. It is used as a unified model to analyze the complexities of the existing modem LP algorithms and possibly, help ...

The Science as a branch of human activity tends to be unified and universal. Accordingly, there is a general demand to integrate heterogeneous research results and to coordinate distributed research activities. In recent years it is doing by federating IRs and CRISs of research organizations in a form of unified research data and information space (DIS) and by providing for research results fro...

When studying enterprises as complex systems through the Enterprise Architecture (EA) discipline, researchers not only apply models, methods and theories of management and control – they ’should’ also use the same from engineering, linguistics, cognitive science, environmental science, biology, social science, artificial intelligence, systems thinking and cybernetics. This diversity of related ...

When studying enterprises as complex systems through the Enterprise Architecture (EA) discipline, researchers not only apply models, methods and theories of management and control – they ’should’ also use the same from engineering, linguistics, cognitive science, environmental science, biology, social science, artificial intelligence, systems thinking and cybernetics. This diversity of related ...

In this paper the controversy over how to decide whether associations between factors and diseases are causal is placed within a description of the public health and scientific relevance of epidemiology. It is argued that the rise in popularity of the Popperian view of science, together with a perception of the aims of epidemiology as being to identify appropriate public health interventions, h...

This paper deals with the approximate merging problem of multiple adjacent Bézier curves with different degrees by a single Bézier curve, which is a frequently seen problem in modeling. The unified matrix representation for precise merging is presented and the approximate merging curve is further derived based on matrix operation. Continuity at the endpoints of curves is also discussed in the m...

Many philosophers, sociologists, and political scientists defend the claim that rational choice theory can provide the basis for a unified and comprehensive theory of social behaviour. Rational choice models are theoretically generalized to explain the behaviour studied by nearly all social science disciplines, from political science to psychology and sociology. Specific applications include go...

Abdus Salam was a truly unique man with great achievements not only in phycisc but also in promoting science in developing countries. His place in the annals of science as one of the finest physicists in this century is assured. He is certainly immortalized with his work on the unification of electromagnetic and weak interactions. His achievements in physics extend beyond this monumental work. ...