performance budgeting has been an important theme of public expenditure management for decades. in the 1990s, however, a new wave of enthusiasm for performance budgeting began to sweep through governments. in recent years, however, the level of interest in organizational use of performance-based budgeting re-emerged with more details and support from researchers and practitioners. performance-b...

Knowledge representation in logics, even in the order-sorted logic that includes a sort hierarchy, tends to lose the conciseness and the nuances of natural language. If we could construct a logic that includes both predicates and terms as classes in the hierarchies, it would be very useful for connecting general knowledge to specic knowledge. Although there are actually logics that are equipped...

Introduction Motivations This thesis is devoted to present some new results in the theory of the semilinear approximations to hydrodynamic equations. More specically, the main purpose of this investigation is to prove the convergence of a class of discrete kinetic approximations , the BGK models, to some hyperbolic and hyperbolic-parabolic systems. These BGK models were introduced by Bathnagar,...