This paper describes results of the simulation of social objects, the dependenceof schoolchildren's professional abilities on their personal characteristics. Thesimulation tool is the articial neural network (ANN) technology. Results of acomparison of the time expense for training the ANN and...

The paper is devoted to solving a problem of the development of the website of Russianmunicipal policlinics and provides a selection of a set of elements which should be posted on awebsite. Such elements are necessary to provide citizens with correct and ergonomic e-services.The insufficient...

Wesentliches Element des weltweiten Internets bildet der Adressraum der IP-Adressen, dieden am Internet teilnehmenden Geräten („IP-Hosts“) zugewiesen sind. IP-Adressen (derVersion 4) bestehen aus vier Zahlen zwischen 0 und 255 und repräsentieren viermal acht Bits,mit welchen insgesamt...

Conventional security infrastructures in the Internet cannot be directlyadopted to ambient systems, especially if based on short-range communi-cation channels: Personal, mobile devices are used and the participants arepresent during communication, so privacy protection is a crucial issue....

This special section includes papers originally presented at a workshop on \'Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation\' in July 2004 at the University of Koblenz, in which some thirty colleagues participated. It had been our impression that there was (and still is) a small, but growing number...