The current generation of CASE tools mainly provides rigid and unnexible support for editing, storage, veriication and transformation of speciications. Information engineers have to adapt their way of working to CASE tools instead of vice versa. To enable a more exi-ble, method independent, support of information engineers, the concept of a CASE shell has emerged. Crucial for CASE shells is the...

We study classic cake-cutting problems, but in discrete models rather than using infiniteprecision real values, specifically, focusing on their communication complexity. Using general discrete simulations of classical infinite-precision protocols (Robertson-Webb and movingknife), we roughly partition the various fair-allocation problems into 3 classes: “easy” (constant number of rounds of logar...

We consider the classic cake-divison problem when the cake is a heterogeneous good represented by an interval in the real line. We provide a mechanism to implement, in an anonymous way, an envy-free and e¢cient allocation when agents have private information on their preferences. The mechanism is a multistep sequential game form in which each agent at each step receives a morsel of the cake tha...

The Efficient Coding Hypothesis, suggests that sensory relays recode sensory messages, so that their redundancy is reduced, but little information is lost. Coding to reduce redundancy eliminates wasteful neural activity, and also organizes sensory information such than an internal model of the environment causing the past sensory inputs to built up, while the current sensory situation is repres...

This study sought to identify the drivers of local government efficiency by investigating three key motivations: internal capacity, rewards for good performance, and compliance with national government. paper studied business registration cases 141 highly urbanized component cities in Philippines using municipalities competitiveness index dataset from 2017 2019. It was found that capacity-relat...