Structured, Transitional and Unstructured Civil Societies: An Institutional Approach

Government and Fertility in Transitional and Post-Transitional Societies

Administrative Culture in Iran: an Institutional Approach

shows how a government approaches the running of the country. Administrative governance behavior shows the type of administrative culture which dominates the country. Administrative culture at its fundamental analytical level looks at the behavioral pattern embracing the country’s administrative system. Taking into account the modern institutional approach, this article intends to define and ev...

Food habits and beliefs in transitional societies.

This paper discusses the concept of the nutrition transition in detail. It commences with an overview of societies which are recognised as being in transition. The economic foundations of the transition from traditional to modern (and post-modern societies) will be emphasised. This will be followed by an examination of the nutrition problems and food habits associated with transitional societie...

The Institutional Approach for Modeling the Evolution of Human Societies

Artificial life is concerned with understanding the dynamics of human societies. A defining feature of any society is its institutions. However, defining exactly what an institution is has proven difficult, with authors often talking past each other. This article presents a dynamic model of institutions, which views them as political game forms that generate the rules of a group's economic inte...

A Unified Approach to Structured, Semistructured and Unstructured Data

At the present time, the way in which we manage data depends on its structural features. In this report we propose a logical model and algebra which represents a step further in the process of bridging the gap between different data modeling approaches. In particular, the focus is on structured and semistructured data. Our model is based on set theory, as in the relational context, and on data ...