Mankind civilization in the globalization age depends heavily on advanced information technologies resulting from automation of control and decision expertise and their respective scientific disciplines. These have a multitude of impacts on development of national economies within the global economy. The broad area of social systems, being essentially human centred systems, is a cross-, interan...

Modern advanced information technologies resulting from automation of control and decision processes along with ubiquitous communications have a multitude of impacts on development of national economies within the global economy. Thus all kinds of social systems, being essentially human centred systems, is a cross-, interand multi-disciplinary challenge to systems and control researchers. Socia...

We have analyzed the determinants of the Gini coefficient for income and expenditure. In both cases, we do not find support for the Kuznets inverted-U hypothesis. From economic globalization viewpoint, the opening of goods markets reduces income inequality both in the short run (the Gini coefficient for income) and in the long run (the Gini coefficient for expenditure). On the other hand, the o...

Globalization can have substantial impact on local commons by reducing sustainability of ecosystems and their vital services. Without effective local institutions, these resources are at high risk of exploitation, especially to feed global markets. This study proposes a multiscale ecosystem framework (MEF) that incorporates information on ecosystem components, socioeconomic processes, and their...

Knowledge-based systems have a wide commercial applicability. However, a credible validation methodology for knowledge-based systems is currently lacking. Our research addresses the feasibility of partitioning rule-based systems into a number of meaningful units to enhance the comprehensibility, maintainability and reliability of expert systems software. Preliminary results have shown that no s...

the interaction between architecture and culture, defined in human and built-environment relationships, challenges both theoretical and practical fields of architecture. to have an affective confrontation to this challenge, it is more important to re-define both sides of this interaction, culture and architecture. cultural context should represent in architecture. there are some movements in th...

Clustering is one of the most interesting and important tool for research in data mining and other disciplines. The aim of clustering is to find the relationship among the data objects, and classify them into meaningful subgroups. The effectiveness of clustering algorithms depends on the appropriateness of the similarity measure between the data in which the similarity can be computed. This pap...