Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that deals with gaining knowledge. It is closely related to ontology. The branch that deals with questions like “What is real?” and “What do we know?” as it provides these components. When using modeling and simulation, we usually imply that we are doing so to either apply knowledge, in particular when we are using them for training and teaching, or that...

Estimates are presented for the impact of debt accumulation by the central and subcentral governments of a federation on the creditworthiness of other federation member governments. The estimates, calculated using an ordered probit model and Canadian provincial data, indicate that debt accumulation by the central government has reduced the creditworthiness of indebted provincial governments. In...

In its ideal form, Web-based simulation should allow simulation models as well as simulation results to be as readily distributable and composable as today’s Web documents. The rapid advances in Web technology, most notably Java, are helping to make this a possibility. Support for executable Web content, universal portability, component technology, and standard high-level packages for accessing...

Mental health is an important topic in competitive sports, but there only limited data from Switzerland. Although mental a prominent topic, it difficult to estimate the efforts of Swiss sports federations promote health. A representative sample athletes (N = 1003, Mage 21.69, SDage 7.09, 54% women, 37% team 10% injured) answered questions about symptoms problems and their well-being. We also as...

Currently federated authorization and authentication infrastructures are deployed to offer services to large groups of users while increasing the usability and scalability of the security architecture. Connection of domains using a variety of technologies brings new challenges and requires the utilization of standardized communication languages between these components. The presented architectu...

The design departments have devoted significant attention to improve organizational performance of the sports institutions, in terms creativity, innovation, beauty, coordination, organization, and problem solving. However, there is still need find out new ideas designs for administrative levels institutions. Thus, present study was conducted identify relationship between management performance....

We present the Federation Semantic Attribute Mapping System (F-SAMS), a web services based system which enables a semiautomated dynamic trust establishment mechanism for managing identity federations. We present the conceptual model which allows current members to dynamically introduce new members into the federation in a trustworthy manner, using a web of trust model. F-SAMS enables existing m...