*Corresponding author: Prof. Hamid Nasri, Department of Nephrology, Division of Nephropathology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Tel: +98 311 220 8081, Fax: +98 311 223 5043, E-mail: [email protected] Last year, the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and the International Federation of Kidney Foundations (IFKF), focused the World Kidney Day (WKD) of 2013 on acut...

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Since the very beginning of the modern computing era, the scientific and educational community in informatics has been in a continuous search for a proper philosophy, viewpoints, aims, contents, methods and tools. Advances in software, communication and h ardware have played by that search the most influencing role, with theory advances having only secondary and declining impacts — in spite of ...

In this paper we review articles published in the proceedings of the conferences of the IFIP Working Group 3.7 in order to classify them by the most relevant topics and to identify the main research patterns followed by the Group. We have also established the major research methodologies used by the Group to carry out its work. Finally, we end up with a brief comparison with the information sys...

In this paper, we propose a method for verification the so-calledsaco-relation between an implementation and the specification LTSs. We showthat this verification can be finite and complete if the number of states andactions of LTSs is finite.

This paper presents suggestions for the design of a scholarly communications system for the IFIP Working Group 8.2 (WG8.2) community. Learned societies such as IFIP have long been important in the system of scholarly communications. With the affordances of the Internet, WG8.2 can play a larger role in promoting scholarly communications to achieve multiple goals: dissemination and archiving of q...

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