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The Ease of Doing Business Index (EDBI) uses 41 variables to compare the business environment of different countries. It is widely used by policy makers, researchers and multinational companies. This paper aims to assess EDBI’s consistency and validity in representing the business environment by using factor analysis. It is found that the EDBI presents a limited consistency and descriptive powe...

Biologically inspired design uses biological systems as analogues to develop solutions for design problems. We conducted a cognitive study of biologically inspired design in the context of an interdisciplinary introductory course on biologically inspired design in Fall of 2006. The goal of this study was to understand the processes of biologically inspired design. This paper provides a descript...

In this paper we present our ongoing work on “Organic Computing”. We present an illustrative case study from program automation that uses OC-paradigms to be failure tolerant and to produce effectively. We present a way to build and verify a formal model of a self-adaptive system. We also give further ideas for formal modeling and our ideas of safety analysis of such systems. Another topic is ho...