This document provides an overview of all NoAH components, defines their requirements and describes the interface between them. The NoAH architecture, as described so far, is a set of individual components that cooperate to form a farm of distributed honeypots. Although the main NoAH components –low-and high-interaction honeypots, signature generation, honey@home and funneling/tunneling – can w...

Extending the notion of contractual pricing introduced by Makowski and Ostroy (2003) to economies with moral hazard, this paper develops a model of team formation and organized competition with three main contributions. Firstly, a team’s organization is defined as an allocation of (public or private) commodities together with incentive compatible actions and information to its members. Secondly...

This article develops the point that incentive and risk-bearing problems associated with contractual holdup may justify legal intervention. Contractual holdup is considered both for fresh contracts and for modifications of contracts. One type of legal intervention is flat voiding of contracts. Such intervention tends to be advantageous when holdup situations are engineered. Another type of inte...

This empirical study addresses the problem of how Commercial-offthe-Shelf (COTS), tailored, and Modified-off-the-Shelf (MOTS) software contracting has been approached, in practice. The focus of the study is on analyzing different contractual characterizations of the three models of software business. The empirical part of the study was completed by analyzing twelve software producing companies ...

We show that concerns for fairness may have dramatic consequences for the optimal provision of incentives in a moral hazard context. Incentive contracts that are optimal when there are only selfish actors become inferior when some agents are concerned about fairness. Conversely, contracts that are doomed to fail when there are only selfish actors provide powerful incentives and become superior ...

The question arising in the legal literature about nature of culpa contrahendo has no unambiguous interpre-tation. Such different approaches to its definition as contractual, quasi-contractual or tort liability are due degree development concept systems European states. Civil Code Republic Belarus prescribes certain provisions on pre–contractual context law obligations, and consequences associa...

Ladd's analysis does much to clarify a field where fundamental assumptions have too often gone unexamined. Lisa Newton's "Hippocrates Lost, A Professional Ethic Regained" examines the morality underlying the Hippocratic Oath and explores its relevance to modern medicine. It is Newton's thesis that vestiges of the Hippocratic tradition, which enjoined physicians to practice their art in secrecy,...

A companies outsource more product design and manufacturing activities to other members of the supply chain, improving end-product quality has become an endeavor extending beyond the boundaries of the firms’ in-house process capabilities. In this paper, we discuss two contractual agreements by which product recall costs can be shared between a manufacturer and a supplier to induce quality impro...

The paper argues that the principal components of the ResourceBased View (R-BV) as a theory of sustained competitive advantage (SCA) are not a sufficient basis for a complete and consistent theory of firm behaviour. Two important missing elements are governance arrangements and value theory. Specifically the paper proposes a link between governance and value theory through a ‘modern labour theo...