health equity is considered as one of the main objectives of health care systems. this study was carried out with the aim of determining health equity indicators in iran. through consideration of these indicators, differences in health status of different social groups and different geographical areas can be shown in different periods and based on that, effective interventions can be designed. ...

This paper address the challenges encountered by developers when deploying a distributed decision-making behavior on heterogeneous robotic systems. Many applications benefit from the use of multiple robots, but their scalability and applicability are fundamentally limited if relying on a central control station. Getting beyond the centralized approach can increase the complexity of the embedded...

To pave the way for Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) systems that can exploit the potential of modern multi-core platforms, we present a new parallelization scheme enabling BFT systems to scale with the number of available cores and to provide the performance required by critical central services. The main idea is to organize parallelism around complete instances of the underlying multi-phase BFT...

Many different process meta-models offer different viewpoints of a same information system engineering process: activity oriented, product oriented, decision oriented, context oriented and strategy oriented. However, the complementarity between their concepts is not explicit and there is no consensus about the concepts themselves. This leads to inadequate process meta-models with organization n...

There are many different process meta-models that offer different viewpoints of a same process: activity oriented, product oriented, decision oriented, context oriented and strategy oriented. However, the complementarity between their concepts is not explicit and there is no consensus about the concepts themselves. This problem leads to inadequate process meta-models with organization needs, so...

A wait-free hierarchy Herlihy91, Jayanti93] classiies object types on the basis of their strength in supporting wait-free implementations of other types. Such a hierarchy is robust if it is impossible to implement objects of types that it classiies as \strong" by combining objects of types that it classiies as \weak". We prove that, if nondeterministic types are allowed, the only wait-free hier...

In this paper the analysis, design and implementation of a soccer team of micro-robots is explained. Besides the technical difficulties to develop these micro-robots, this paper also shows how to develope a multi-agent cooperative system by means of Matlab/Simulink † a widely known Computer Aided Control System Design framework. Agent-Oriented Paradigms formalise interactions between multiple a...

Cooperative computing is becoming inevitable with the emerging of service-oriented computing and GRID becoming a ubiquitous computing resource. It is widely recognized that agent technology can be employed to construct cooperative systems due to agents’ autonomous and collaborative characteristics. We devise an agent-oriented modelling language called CAMLE for the analysis and design of MAS (M...

Managing perceived intractable problems—seemingly irrevocable, difficult-to-solve, often values-driven conflicts—is a regular occurrence for public relations practitioners. Yet, understanding and managing such problems is outside of the bounds theories aimed primarily at building consensus. This paper builds on existing conflict-centered literature by carving out place dissensus-oriented or ago...