Europe drafts a convention

Of Drafts and Gales Stephen

The first striking feature of EquivTest is its data management capability. The data we receive from crossover trials can be recorded as either multiple variables per subject or multiple records per subject. Rather than having to dictate to our clients which style we require, EquivTest can accommodate both styles. This, together with the broad range of packages supported in the import facility, ...

A System for Recommending Briefing Drafts from Non-textual Events

With the increasing ubiquity of email and web related technologies in supporting and documenting tasks there arises a need to summarize a user’s interactions and activities over a period of time. We describe a learningbased system for generating reports based on a mix of text and event data. The report drafting system is part of a learning cognitive assistant, implemented using web technologies...

A Governing Convention? *

In this essay I argue that one can understand the relationship between those who rule and those who are ruled in civil society as an implicit contractual relationship or contract by convention. I use variations of the extensive form Trust Game to summarize the structures of alternative forms of contracts, and apply these variations to model the relationship between the rulers and those under th...

creative use of convention in Herikes Corrinas going a Maying

Analysis of QM rules in the draft constitution for Europe proposed by the European Convention, 2003

We analyse and evaluate the qualified majority (QM) decision rules for the Council of Ministers of the EU that are included in the Draft Constitution for Europe proposed by the European Convention [5]. We use a method similar to the one we used in [9] for the QM prescriptions made in the Treaty of Nice. Analysis of QM Rules in the Draft Constitution for Europe Proposed by the European Conventio...