Systematic, well-designed research provides the most effective approach to the solution of many problems facing highway administrators and engineers. Often, highway problems are of local interest and can best be studied by highway departments individually or in cooperation with their state universities and others. However, the accelerating growth of highway transportation develops increasingly ...

Systematic, well-designed research provides the most effective approach to the solution of many problems facing highway administrators and engineers. Often, highway problems are of local interest and can best be studied by highway departments individually or in cooperation with their state universities and others. However, the accelerating growth of highway transportation develops increasingly ...

Systematic, well-designed research provides the most effective approach to the solution of many problems facing highway administrators and engineers. Often, highway problems are of local interest and can best be studied by highway departments individually or in cooperation with their state universities and others. However, the accelerating growth of highway transportation develops increasingly ...

The use of contracts in component-based development is a well-established approach. However there exists a wide range of views as to the nature of the contracts that are necessary to support safety-critical systems development, assurance and certification. Different standards and projects have tried to reduce ambiguity and propose the best practice in this area. In this paper we present work th...

Contracts formally represent agreements between parties and often involve the exchange of goods or services. In contracts, clauses define the behavior expected from parties in terms of deontic statements such as obligation, permission and prohibition. These normative clauses may contain conflicting deontic statements referring to the same party in the same context, producing inconsistencies in ...

Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976) demonstrated that adverse selection may entail nonexistence of equilibrium in competitive insurance markets. We approach this problem in a dynamic model with boundedly rational insurance rms. Firms' behavior is based on imitation of pro t making contracts, withdrawal of loss making contracts, and experimentation with random contracts. Consumers choose in each peri...

Globalization and the outsourcing of products and services is a growing trend in industry. This has led to increased supply chain complexity, meaning that the number of contracts being entered into between buyers and suppliers has grown. These contracts can be difficult for suppliers to cost, due to the fact that many of these contracts contain operational details. In addition to this, the time...

First ever AP system installation 2000 Most recent AP system installation (based on survey deadline of Dec. 2007) 2007 No. of contracts for sites operating AP system (H/IL/C or GP/FI/OS)* 15 (10/2/2/1 in Singapore/0) • No. of contracts that went live in 2007 0 • No. of contracts not yet live/No. of these contracts signed in 2007 1/1 No. of sites operating AP system 15 Percentage of installation...

The complete specification of full contracts — contracts which include tolerated exceptions, and which enable reasoning about the contracts themselves, can be achieved using a combination of temporal and deontic concepts. In this paper we discuss the challenges in combining deontic and other relevant logics, in particular focusing on operators for choice, obligations over sequences, contrary-to...

Code contracts is a way to attribute the programs with formal the specifications, based on which the verification of those programs can be performed. The focus on software verification is increasing and the mainstream languages start to adopt this technique. Scala is an object oriented and functional programming language that is very expressive and has a strong type system. Hence, developing a ...