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Distributed Services in a Messenger Environment
Mobile code is more and more accepted as a promising alternative for structuring distributed applications. The messenger paradigm is the approach to mobile code used in this paper. Messengers are threads of control that can move in a network of messenger platforms to search for resources and information they need to accomplish their task. They are expressed in the MØ messenger...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Access Consistency Memory Model for Messengers
The messenger paradigm is an alternative to computer communication based on the exchange of programs called messengers which are afterwards executed, instead of messages that are interpreted. The communication by messenger paradigm can be used to implement both low level software such as communication protocols and high level software such as distributed applications. Using the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Formalization of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. The Special Case of Category Theory
This working paper lists some ideas on how to apply category theory to agents, and multi-agent systems. It focuses more on the distributivity and compositionality of agents, as well as on the emergence of sociality and properties, than on the intelligence or on the ability of agents to reason. It presents some categorical notions, and explains informally how they can be connected...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Migration of legacy applications to a CORBA platform: a case study
An important problem that many large organizations face today concerns the support and evolution of their large (legacy) information systems. In this paper we present an approach for migrating large and interdependent legacy information systems to CORBA based platforms. Our approach allows continuous availability of the information systems, minimal manpower for the implementation and...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Applications and Research directions of the Object Systems Group
We present an overview of the research directions, projects and applications of the Object Systems Group.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Discriminatory versus uniform Treasury auctions: Evidence from when-issued transactions
We use wehn-issued transactions data to assess the Treasury's current experiment with uniform auctions, suggesting a higher information release, which should reduce pre-auction uncertainty and the winner's curse. Under uniform auctions, wehn-issued volatility falls after the auction and again after the outcome announcement. The pattern is the opposite for discriminatory...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
On the sharpness of the Orlicz-Sobolev imbedding theorem
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
A Comparison of US, UK, and German Insolvency Codes
This paper describes three insolvency codes, those of the United Kingdom (UK), Germany, and the United States (US) and compares their efficiency against a number of benchmarks. These codes have been chosen because they cover a broad spectrum of debtor- and creditor-oriented insolvency procedures. The paper also compares the plans of distressed firms' reorganizations both within...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
ECOSYS-87: Model Calculations of the activity in cow meat related to deposition time and feeding regimes after a nuclear fallout
The radioecological model ECOSYS-87 was used to evaluate the effect of countermeasures for reducing the ingestion dose by eating cattle meat after an accidental release of radioactive material. Calculations were performed using a database adapted to Swiss conditions for the case that (1) contaminated grass or hay is replaced by clean fodder; (2) the last 100 days before slaughter,...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
A look at the Nd as a special case of CNV
Tone onset and normal tone offset in Nd tasks are formally similar to the S1 and S2 events in a CNV task requiring perceptual discrimination (tone duration) for designated tones. If the Nd thus reflects more than mere stimulus selection, increasing the duration of all tones should lengthen the Nd wave. Eight subjects participated to three Nd tasks, with short tones of 50, 150, and...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Auditors' perceptions of client firms: The stigma of decline and the stigma of growth
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
A fair mechanism for the efficient reduction of global CO2-emissions
Because of the public good character of global emissions it is difficult to implement reduction
targets as formulated at Toronto or Rio. This paper presents a simple mechanism for inducing
efficient contributions to the reductions of emissions as a non-cooperative equilibrium. The
world is partitioned into groups of countries, and then each country is taxed or...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Retirement of spouses and social security reform
The retirement decisions of spouses may be interdependent for various reasons: similarity of tastes, joint assets, sharing rules for income and housework, or complementarity of leisure. Because of data limitations, only a few empirical studies exist on this topic. From a policy point of view interdependent retirement could become important if legislators in different EC countries are...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
The cross-country Engel curve for product diversification
This paper employs ICP expenditure data to investigate the relationship between income and product diversity. It turns out that per-capita income has a strong positive impact on the number of products consumed at a non-negligible level in a country, and a significant negative impact on the concentration of consumers' expenditure across different goods categories. Inequality in...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Labor Markets, Production Strategies, and Wage Bargaining Institutions: The Swedish Employer Offensive in Comparative Perspective
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Social Movements and Institutional Selectivity
Contrary to what is usually implied by work on the relationship between political opportunity structures and social movements, political institutions are not a general setting offering or denying formal access and political opportunities to every challenge, but rather favor certain types of movements and constrain others. This process of institutional selectivity depends on the...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Modelling Income Distribution in Spain: A Robust Parametric Approach
This paper presents a robust estimation of two income distribution models using Spanish data for the period 1990-91 under three different concepts of income. The effect on the estimates of the Theil index due to the choice of the definition of income and of the estimation method is also analysed.
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Stochastic Programming Tutorial for Financial Decision Making (The Saddle Property of Optimal Profits)
The complexity of the interaction between time and uncertainty made finance models to one of the most important applications of probability theory and optimization theory. Stochastic programming combines those two fields with the intention to design methodologies for planning under uncertainty. This tutorial consists of two parts, written for practitioners, in particular financial...
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
What size should banks want to be?
Contents
1. The optimal size of a single bank depends on the technology
2. To which degree should a bank wish to be regulated?
3. Banks versus capital markets
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
Conversational Construction of New Meaning Configurations in Organizational Innovation: A Generative Approach
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/1996
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