Modelling session types using contracts20 December 2011Session types and contracts are two formalisms used to study client-server interactions. In this...
Sguardi sui luoghi della città: Lucca16 December 2011Un convegno di IMT per analizzare il patrimonio storico-artistico di Lucca tra passato e futuro. L...
Rule Formats for Determinism and Idempotence1 December 2011Operational semantics describes the behaviour of programs in a language in terms of their execution...
Does Direct Democracy Hurt Immigrant Minorities? Evidence from Naturalization Decisions in Switzerland1 December 2011
Performance and productivity in the multi-core era: challenges in software engineering and formal methods23 November 2011FastFlow is a programming framework specifically targeting multi- and many-cores architetcures. It...
Multi-core and GPU model checking: Challenges and Outlooks16 November 2011Model checking is one of the most successful formal techniques for the verification of software and...
European political cultures and parties and the European integration process, 1945-199210 November 2011
Security in e-Health scenarios26 October 2011Important progresses in medicine and healthcare has been made during the last century. The duration...
Controlling reversibility in rhopi20 October 2011In rhopi every step can always be undone, and each process freely moves back and forward. To make...
Towards Reversible Systems12 October 2011The notion of reversible computation is attracting increasing interest because of its applications...
Learning from constraints6 October 2011In this talk, I propose a functional framework to understand the emergence of intelligence in...
Medicare Auctions: A Case Study of Market Design in Washington, DC6 October 2011For papers see www.cramton.umd.edu/papers/health-care
Localised access control policies and global reasoning5 October 2011In distributed systems, the traditional way of enforcing security is by means of access control...
Electricity Market Design and Climate Policy4 October 2011For papers see www.cramton.umd.edu/papers/electricity and www.cramton.umd.edu/papers/climate
Do Constitutions Matter? The Relationship between De Jure and De Facto Human Rights Protection27 September 2011The critique of constitutions as mere parchment barriers is as old as the practice of writing them...
Forecasting the behavior of socio-technical complex systems18 July 2011Discussants: Guido Caldarelli (Institute for Complex Systems, CNR & Università degli Studi di...
Long-term barriers to the diffusion of innovations8 July 2011We document an empirical relationship between the cross-country adoption of technologies and the...
The experience of art in urban space5 July 2011The experience of art in urban space represents a very special case in the area of the studies of...
Model Repair for Probabilistic Systems29 June 2011We introduce the problem of Model Repair for Probabilistic Systems as follows. Given a...
Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Tasks and Skills28 June 2011We analyze the relationship between offshoring and the onshore workforce composition in German...
The European cooperation policy towards Africa: from Rome to Cotonou23 June 2011The aim of this seminar is to present the EEC/EU cooperation policy with the African states from...
Cultural Diversity and Institutional Changes - Globalization and the Evolution of Cultural Diversity22 June 2011
Cultural Diversity and Institutional Changes - Cultural Change and the Evolution of Institutions21 June 2011
Cultural Diversity and Institutional Changes - Simple Economic Models of Cultural Evolution and Preferences Dynamics20 June 2011
Behavioural equivalence in higher-order calculi17 June 2011A language is "higher-order" if program code can be passed around, that is, terms of the language...
Why Do Authoritarian Regimes Sign the Convention Against Torture? Signaling, Domestic Politics and Non-Compliance14 June 2011
Partial fallibilist social rationality and the social sciences today9 June 2011Poppers theory of progress in science was originally a simple theory about the logic of all...
Statistical physics, combinatorial optimization and biological inference8 June 2011The Statistical Physics of Disordered Systems offers an incredible wealth of theoretical and...
From Programs to Real-Life Systems: Building a Smarter World3 June 2011Abstract: "In this talk, I will discuss the evolution of Computer Science and in particular its...
La legislazione antiriciclaggio: i nuovi indicatori di anomalia e le funzioni di compliance30 May 2011
Victor Zaslavsky - Testimone e interprete del suo tempo27 May 2011Decennale di Ventunesimo Secolo, Rivista di studi sulle transizioni
Empirical Modeling of Interdependence in the Political & Social Sciences25 May 2011Spatial interdependence is ubiquitous and central substantively and theoretically across social...
How Lasting is Voter Gratitude? An Analysis of the Short- and Long-term Electoral Returns to Beneficial Policy24 May 2011
Similarity based networks with application to stock portfolios and investor's trading behavior23 May 2011
Financial systems and innovation: Evidence from banking deregulations9 May 2011We present evidence consistent with the Schumpeterian view that financial systems play a key role...
Structural Realism meets the Social Sciences3 May 2011Structural realism is arguably one of the most influential movements to have emerged in philosophy...
Run-time Adaptation of Service-Based Applications27 April 2011Service-based applications are considered a promising technology since they are able to offer...
Social norms, inheritance and human capital: Evidence from a reform of the matrilineal system in Ghana18 April 2011
L'UNIONE EUROPEA DOPO IL TRATTATO DI LISBONA: FUNZIONAMENTO E PROSPETTIVE FUTURE15 April 2011PROGRAMMA DEI LAVORI - Indirizzi di saluto: Alberto Del Carlo (Presidente, Fondazione Banca del...
Weak Markovian Bisimulation Congruences and Exact CTMC-Level Aggregations for Concurrent Processes13 April 2011A Markovian bisimulation equivalence has been defined for sequential processes, which is weak in...
Understanding Cultural Objects as Objects13 April 2011In this seminar we focus on material culture, specifically how the physical properties of objects...
Understanding Cultural Objects as Culture11 April 2011In this seminar we explore the links between social structure and culture by looking at the...
Weak Markovian Bisimulation Congruences and Exact CTMC-Level Aggregations for Sequential Processes6 April 2011The Markovian behavioral equivalences defined so far treat exponentially timed internal actions...
French Democracy and the ?Croix de Feu Complex?5 April 2011The extreme right-wing movement Croix de Feu and its leader Colonel de La Rocque are perhaps the...
DESIGN FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE EXPERIENCES AND INTERPRETATIONS - A roadmap for the definition of the vision of the C3 unit22 March 2011The main objective of this seminar is to outline a roadmap for the definition of the vision of the...
Promoting Democracy in Postcommunist Ukraine: The Contradictory Outcomes of US Aid to Women's NGOs10 March 2011
Large-scale Performance Models with Stochastic Process Algebras9 March 2011This talk gives an overview of recent research concerning the use of stochastic process algebras...
Workshop Te.Be. - Quali Sviluppi per le Tecnologie ICT Applicate ai Beni Culturali?24 February 2011Presentazione dei Risultati di Te.Be. Tecnologie e Beni Culturali - Progetto di Fattibilità per lo...
Architettura e città11 February 2011Mario Botta, architect of international acclaim and recipient of the Grand Officer award from...
Presentazione del libro «Come l?orco della fiaba» Studi per Franco Cardini29 January 2011Saluti: Fabio Pammolli (Direttore, IMT Alti Studi Lucca); Paolo Mencacci (Accademia Lucchese di...
Knowing the right person in the right place: political connections and resistance to change24 January 2011