Social indifference is in fact a sign of the failure of the processes of cohesion and integration in the connection of individuals with society. The severity and pervasiveness of social indifference will undoubtedly lead to social disintegration and, in a way, to underdevelopment. Accordingly, the importance of the study of social indifference in its adverse consequences on the path of developm...

Within both game studies and development communities, it is often argued that a game’s processes (rules and goals) are of primary significance when considering a game’s meaning. In opposition to this position, some claim that this approach denies player subjectivity by ignoring the dynamic, culturally-embedded ways in which players create, rather than receive, meaning through play. This paper c...

Long term defence planning is a complex undertaking involving many separate analytical steps and with non-trivial transitions from one step to the next. Many nations struggle with the challenge of establishing analytical rigour, structure and traceability in their defence planning processes. In this paper we will present a tool that has been developed not only to support defence planning, but w...

The Central Computing services at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) [17] have deployed an instance of the JASIG Uportal [18] system for use by a student audience of around 22,000. To achieve the requirement of a homogenous experience for the end user required a transition to a more consistent and unified Single Sign-On (SSO) and Single Sign-Off interaction with the underlying diverse infrast...

we give further results for perron-frobenius theory on the numericalrange of real matrices and some other results generalized from nonnegative matricesto real matrices. we indicate two techniques for establishing the main theorem ofperron and frobenius on the numerical range. in the rst method, we use acorresponding version of wielandt's lemma. the second technique involves graphtheory.

Web Service is one of the most important information sharing technologies on the web and one of the example of service oriented processing. To guarantee accurate execution of web services operations, they must be accountable with regulations of the social networks in which they sign up. This operations implement using controls called “Commitment”. This paper studies commitments , then has an ov...

The Seamless Access to Multiple Datasets (SAMD) project is designed to demonstrate the benefits of Grid (e-Science) technologies for dataset manipulation and analyses in a social science context. Grid technologies run over existing internet infrastructures and offer a faster alternative to the world wide web for the transfer and analysis of large datasets. Under the SAMD project, a web-delivere...