P ART II of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems Special Issue on Cyber–Physical–Social Systems (CPSS) includes six papers that are on emerging techniques for radio access networks, data deduplication, big data computing, smart community, cloud computing, and Internet of Things. The paper “QoE-Guaranteed and Power-Efficient Network Operation for Cloud Radio Access Network with ...

It is well appreciated that demographic trends threaten the integrity of continental European systems of social security. For France, these trends imply a long term funding crisis as well as a crisis of confidence in national economic and social institutions. The funding of social security is a recurrent largely unresolved political issue; proposals for comprehensive reform are heavily conteste...

Research indicates that peer interaction can have a substantial impact on the lives of adolescents with disabilities. However, social interaction among adolescents with intellectual disabilities and their general education peers typically occurs infrequently in secondary schools. This paper provides a critical analysis of twenty-six empirical interventions aimed at promoting social interaction ...

The IEC standards 61508/61511 require that reliability targets for safety instrumented functions are defined and verified. The reliability targets are given as one out of a possible four safety integrity levels. For each safety integrity level there are many design requirements, including requirements for the probability of failure on demand. Verification of the requirements for the probability...

Static integrity constraints involve only the current database state. Temporal integrity constraints involve current, past, and future database states; they can be expressed by essentially unrestricted sentences in temporal logic. Certain syntactically restricted classes of temporal constraints have been studied in their own right for considerations of feasibility or practicality; they are usua...

This paper describes a technique for importing automatically an external relational schema into Pegasus, a heterogeneous, multidatabase system. The Pegasus data model is a functional object model which supports specialization, object-identity, and nested aggregation. The import algorithm generates the definition of a Pegasus schema which captures the semantics of a relational schema containing ...

The use of the Social Security number (SSN) has expanded significantly since its inception in 1936. Created merely to keep track of the earnings history of U.S. workers for Social Security entitlement and benefit computation purposes, it has come to be used as a nearly universal identifier. Assigned at birth, the SSN enables government agencies to identify individuals in their records and busin...

Checking the consistency of a database state generally involves the execution of integrity tests (query that returns the value true or false) on the database, which verify whether the database is satisfying its constraints or not. Many types of integrity tests have been proposed and presented in the literature. The previous works in the area of checking integrity constraints in distributed data...