The paths towards institutionalization

Paths towards efficiency in healthcare.

Towards Reproducing Inter-Domain AS Paths

Today’s Internet is composed of approximately 20,000 competing autonomous systems (ASes) which have to cooperate with each other to provide global reachability. Each AS is controlled by different administrative entities, and therefore encodes various economic, business, and performance decisions in its routing policy. Unfortunately, the complex interactions arising from such a distributed syste...

Towards a Theory of Transition Paths

We construct a statistical theory of reactive trajectories between two pre-specified sets A and B, i.e. the portions of the path of a Markov process during which the path makes a transition from A to B. This problem is relevant e.g. in the context of metastability, in which case the two sets A and B are metastable sets, though the formalism we propose is independent of any such assumptions on A...

Possible paths towards magic clusters formation

Using a virtual probe method in molecular dynamics approach, we have explored the growing process of atomic clusters by adding atoms in a one-by-one manner to a tetrahedron up to 50 atoms and found that the growing path repeats a process of split-then-merge chaining. The sequential chains merge in the vicinity of the ones with atoms of magic number and then diverge, meaning that, in the cluster...

The institutionalization of Open Source

Using concepts of neoinstitutional economics, such as transaction cost economics, institutional economics, property rights theory, and information economics, the development of the Open Source movement is investigated. Following the evolution of institutions in Open Source, it is discussed what the comparative institutional advantages of this model are. The conclusion is that it is the institut...