infonet-economy

In this paper, we describe a technique for integrating heterogeneous information systems using concept bases. A concept base is build on top of each system to integrate, in order to semantically enrich its description. Each concept is described at three different levels: terminological definition, formal characterization, and representation in the underlying system. The different…

This report proposes to employ messengers, initially developed in the context of communication protocols, as a fundamental component of the architecture of distributed operating systems. Current microkernels offer non-local services which require the collaboration of neighboring machines or special servers and are implemented using special protocols. These protocols are hard-wired…

Drawing on recent work concerning the statistical robustness of inequality statistics we examine the sensitivity of poverty indices to data contamination using the concept of the influence function. We show that poverty and inequality indices have fundamentally different robustness properties, and demonstrate that an important commonly used subclass of poverty measures will be robust…

Les identités nationales sont à la fois des identités closes, nécessairement closes, et appelées à s'ouvrir à leur autre, à tout ce qui n'est pas elles. Elles sont le berceau nécessaire à l'épanouissement de l'individu comme elles peuvent être sa cage, sa prison ou sa tombe. Cette dialectique, inhérente aux identités tant psychiques que sociales et politiques, est…

Explaining why the German speaking Swiss were so reluctant about joining the European Economic Area and the French German speaking were so enthusiastic.