Public Service Obligation System Principles

Min-max optimal public service system design

This paper deals with designing a fair public service system. To achieve fairness, various schemes are be applied. The strongest criterion in the process is minimization of disutility of the worst situated users and then optimization of disutility of the better situated users under the condition that disutility of the worst situated users does not worsen, otherwise called lexicographical minimi...

The beleaguered rulers: the public obligation of the professional.

Modern professionals wield considerable power by virtue of their knowledge. However, they also feel beleaguered by the constraints they face and the public disapproval they often experience. These pressures combine to diminish the professional's sense of public responsibility and convert him or her in self-perception to a careerist.

eGovernment service security policy: obligation conflict resolution in XACMLv3

Today, many governments tend to propose e-services to their citizens. However, implementing an eGovernment environment shall face up to several security challenges including integrating security requirements coming from multiple stakeholders. In this article, we analyze the conflicts that can occur between eGovernment security requirements. Since these security requirements can contain both aut...

Estimating the Cost of the Universal Service Obligation in Posts

Emergency Public Service System Design Using IP-Solver

The paper deals with the public service system design, in which the generalized utility is to be maximized. The generalized utility defined for a public service system assumes that user’s utility comes generally from more than one located service center, on the contrary to the former formulations, where only one service center was taken into account as a source of individual user’s utility. Cla...