Rubric-based admissions are claimed to help make the graduate process more equitable, possibly helping address historical and ongoing inequities in U.S. physics school that have often excluded applicants from minoritized races, ethnicities, genders, backgrounds. Yet, no studies examined whether rubric-based methods represent a fundamental change of or simply new tool achieves same outcome. To t...

Smart grids consist of millions of automated electronic meters that will be installed in electricity distribution networks and connected to servers that will manage grid supervision, billing and customer services. World sustainability regarding energy management will definitely rely on such grids, so smart grids need also to be sustainable themselves. This sustainability depends on several rese...

Resolving the semantic heterogeneity in the semantic web requires finding correspondences between ontologies describing resources. In particular, with the explosive growth of data sets in the Linked Open Data, linking multiple vocabularies and ontologies simultaneously, known as holistic matching problem, becomes necessary. Currently, most state-of-the-art matching approaches are limited to pai...

To complement the traditional reductionism approaches, many C2 analysts and designers are now considering holistic and middle-out approaches that could better deal with the evergrowing complexity of modern command and control systems. In this article, four “complex conditions” (called modalities) are proposed for studying Complex Systems (CxS) and to characterize their evolution toward superior...

In an attempt to find new solutions to problems resulting from top-down approaches to resource conservation and sustainability, community-based co-management over an entire wetland ecosystem (comprising beels, seasonal wetlands, rivers and streams), not just a single water body, recognizes that local communities should have direct control over the management, utilization and benefits of local r...

This chapter presents a general framework of resource-driven workflows as an alternative to the more popular control flow driven workflows approach. We argue that this approach is more holistic than control flow driven approaches because it considers availability of resources such as data, people, equipment, space, etc. Control flow driven approaches usually either disregard resource considerat...

Current approaches for risk analysis of biometric authentication technology are limited to enrollment and identification/verification processes with biometric algorithms mainly considered as black-boxes, only. This paper presents a systematic approach for a holistic security risk analysis of biometric authentication technology based on the high-level component & process model for integrated sec...

This paper introduces a new notion called Verification & Validation (V&V) Lifecycle Method-ologies, examining what V&V is, and expanding its scope to the entire software lifecycle (much beyond traditional methods of software testing). V&V Lifecycle Methodologies are streamlined and efficient, yet highly holistic and concisely measured step-by-step threaded and sequenced approaches to predictive...