Simple games are a powerful tool to analyze decision-making and coalition formation in social and political life. In this paper, we present relation-algebraic models of simple games and develop relational specifications for solving some basic problems of them. In particular, we test certain fundamental properties of simple games and compute specific players and coalitions. We also apply relatio...

WORK EXPERIENCE July 2005–Present Deputy Head of Clinic (Adjunct-kliniekhoofd) University Hospitals Leuven, (Belgium) Senior staff member at the department of intensive care medicine, university hospitals Leuven. Daily responsability in patient care at this tertiary university referral center ICU. Training and education of medical doctors in training for anaesthesiology, internal medicine, surg...

We report on our analysis of a 300 ks observation of the Vela pulsar with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The doublepeaked, pulsed emission at 2 30 keV, which we had previously detected during a 93 ks observation, is confirmed with much improved statistics. There is now clear evidence, both in the spectrum and the light curve, that the emission in the RXTE band is a blend of two separat...

In 1972 Harsanyi and Selten characterized a one parameter asymmetric Nash solution. In this note I do the analog for the Kalai-Smorodinsky (KS) solution. Replacing Symmetry with a restricted version of Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives in the set of axioms that lead to the KS solution, I characterize an asymmetric version of that solution that depends only on one parameter.

The Institute of Medicine reports a growing demand in recent years for quality improvement within the healthcare industry. In response, numerous organizations have been involved in the development and reporting of quality measurement metrics. However, disparate data models from such organizations shift the burden of accurate and reliable metrics extraction and reporting to healthcare providers....

We present a method for detecting compound nominalisations in open data, and deriving an interpretation for them. Discovering the semantic relationship between the modifier and head noun in a compound nominalisation is first construed as a twoway disamiguation task between an underlying subject or object semantic relation between a head noun and its modifier, and second as a three-way task betw...

This paper presents a comparison between a 3D and a 4D ontology, with the purpose of identifying modelling variations that arise from using these different kind of ontologies. The modelling variations are illustrated by using 2 enterprise modelling enigmas on which both ontologies are applied. The goal of our comparison is to demonstrate that the choice of an ontology impacts the representation...

The software engineering discipline is experiencing a quick consolidation in the applications development activities and the use of technologies and methodologies of web-based programming. In the web services arena some oriented and based practices for the construction of large scale software applications (i.e., distributed information systems) are beginning to appear. The software development ...