Purpose of this contribution Some regulations aim to improve innovation or technological advancement, or at least remove possible obstacles. Competition law, both national and European, is a less known part of the law and is mostly handled by specialised lawyers. The purpose of this contribution is to make the part of competition law that aims to improve innovation more widely known. Two more o...

The article focuses on the importance of the automatic assignment of reviewers to papers for increasing the assignment accuracy the quality of the scientific event itself. It discusses the main aspects that influence the assignment accuracy, performs a detailed analysis of the methods of describing papers and reviewers’ competences used by the existing conference management systems and suggests...

We discuss two distance concepts between q-ary n-sequences, 2 ≤ q < n, called partition distances. This distances are metrics in the space of all partitions of a finite n-set. For the metrics, we study codes called q-partition codes and present a construction of these codes based on the first order Reed– Muller codes. A random coding bound is obtained. We also work out an application of q-parti...

Previously we (Vonk and Shackelford, 2012, in press) proposed an integration of comparative psychology and evolutionary psychology into a new field of "comparative evolutionary psychology." This integrative discipline incorporates principles from ethology, ecology, biology, anthropology, and psychology, broadly defined. We present in this special issue a collection of original empirical and the...

The article theoretically shows transformation of modern didactic model into three-subjective (Student Teacher Information and communication pedagogical environment). Active components of new subject, which are the most evident in a learning process, are analyzed in the article. The requirement block of information and communication environment as a subject of the educational process is describ...