Many of the world's most populous democracies are political unions composed of states or provinces that are unequally represented in the national legislature. Scattered empirical studies, most of them focusing on the United States, have discovered that overrepresented states appear to receive larger shares of the national budget. Although this relationship is typically attributed to bargaining ...

The Virtual Airspace Simulation Technology RealTime (VAST-RT) project at NASA Ames Research Center has implemented a new airspace modeling and simulation capability that provides a gate-to-gate, realtime, human-in-the-loop simulation environment to evaluate revolutionary Air Traffic Management (ATM) concepts. The system architecture of the VAST-RT connects high-fidelity flight simulators and ai...

Resource discovery is an important service in a grid, since a grid enables the sharing and collaborating of a wide variety of resources which should be fully exploited. Based on Semantic Web technologies and the idea of resources clustering, this paper presents a comprehensive hybrid architecture based on SKOS lightweight ontology to organize and discover resources in an efficient and scalable ...

Software processes cover many different aspects and facets: the management of activities, products, organizational constraints, resources, software configuration management, distribution, evolution strategies, cooperation work, etc. The requirements for a process support environment include (1) providing formalisms/languages which are abstract enough for capturing and modeling the company strat...

SAML federations provide students the possibility to use their home university’s account even in case they decide to study one or more semesters abroad. The visited university can rely on the identity information transmitted via the federation’s mechanisms. However, when services at the visited university require payment, such as using a printer, the roaming student is nevertheless required to ...

The Forum of Federations is undertaking a study of the factors that affect the management of petroleum resources in federal systems, of which this draft paper is part. This paper is an informal document which publication is intended to provide reference material for the Conference on Oil and Gas in Federal Systems, organized by the World Bank, to further the dialogue on development and public f...

Federation of Cloud services is notably landing interests from both Cloud providers and consumers. Cloud providers nowadays are required to form federations to remain competitive, and sustain their market share. Cloud consumers however seek optimized services from Clouds federation. They strive to maximize their satisfaction level, which is often measured by Quality of Service (QoS). Federation...

Identity federations are emerging in the last years in order to make easier the deployment of resource sharing environments among organizations. One common feature of those environments is the use of access control mechanisms based on the user identity. However, most of those federations have realized that user identity is not enough to offer a more grained access control and value added servic...