Digital Society Based on Public Civility: an Alternative to Strengthen National Character

An Analysis to Wealth Distribution Based on Sugarscape Model in an Artificial Society

 In this paper an artificial society is being assumed as a multi agents system. A sugarscape model consisting of a cellular landscape of resources is used to form an interaction among the agents of the population. In the model, agents find the resources to survive. They are supposed to move and search and because of this movement, an evolutionary social behavior will develope. From model analys...

an alternative approach to security concerns in digital library initiatives

digital preservation refers to an important aspect that most iranian digital library initiatives lack. this component is security. while a digital library may be misconceived as an information supply space without a physical form, the same security concerns in force for operation of physical library are valid. unlike the analog materials, all digital copies of digital materials are original. a ...

Public Private Partnership in Healthcare Industry in Sri Lanka as an Alternative to Privatization

The study is focused on the public-private partnership in health sector in Sri Lanka. As a developing country, Sri Lanka faces a challenging task in order to improve the infrastructure facilities of the country after ending the thirty years of war. There is a requirement to develop the country as a whole along with all the industries such as education, health, transport, agriculture, etc. to me...

The Alternative to an Initial Public Offering

For over a year, the market for initial public offerings (IPO) for promising private companies has been slow. In 2007, there were just 234 IPOs, down from a decade high of 486 in 1999. As a result, private companies and their investors (including venture capital and private equity backed companies) have been left without a crucial exit strategy. More importantly, these private companies that mi...

Civility, Enlightenment, and Society: Conceptual Confusions and Kantian Remedies