Australia’s Federation episode in international context

International Federation of

Scholars and professionals rely upon formal communication mechanisms, such as journals, for access to work aimed at contributing to disciplines' knowledge bases. The extent to which journals succeed at achieving the goal of knowledge growth is an open question. While there are many

Federation and Sharing in the Context Marketplace

The emerging pervasive computing services will eventually lead to the establishment of a context marketplace, where context consumers will be able to obtain the information they require by a plethora of context providers. In this marketplace, several aspects need to be addressed, such as: support for flexible federation among context stakeholders enabling them to share data when required; effic...

The ten-twenty electrode system of the International Federation. The International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology.

During the First International EEG Congress, London in 1947, it was recommended that Dr. Herbert H. Jasper study methods to standardize the placement of electrodes used in EEG (Jasper 1958). A report with recommendations was to be presented to the Second International Congress in Paris in 1949. The electrode placement systems in use at various centers were found to be similar, with only minor d...

Cross-Context Delegation through Identity Federation

We present in this paper a basic scheme for delegation in a federated setting and two more advanced schemes, transferable and corporate delegation. By transferable delegation delegatees are able to delegate the received privileged actions further to someone else. Corporate delegation is delegation within a business context. Our schemes are generic and user-centric. We elaborate on the different...

International Federation of Clinical Chemistry (IFCC)