This paper discusses the Washington Consensus, its origins, and insights in terms of subsequent development experience a broad range countries. I continue to find that when properly interpreted as guide formulation country-specific strategies, Consensus has withstood test time quite well. In my view, experience, especially Asia, reveals number places where shift emphasis would be warranted. Fin...

Abstract Lack of experience, inadequate documentation, and sub-optimal API design frequently cause developers to make mistakes when re-using third-party implementations. Such misuses can result in unintended behavior, performance losses, or software crashes. Therefore, current research aims automatically detect such by comparing the way a developer used an previously inferred patterns correct u...

This paper focuses on a dynamic aspect of responsible autonomy, namely, to make intelligent agents be at run time. That is, it considers settings where decision making by impinges upon the outcomes perceived other agents. For an agent act responsibly, must accommodate desires and attitudes its users and, through agents, their users. The contribution this is twofold. First, provides conceptual a...

A firewall is a system for enforcing access control policy between two networks and is one of the most important measures to protect against network attacks. Firewalls traditionally protect the internal network from outside threats. But there has been increasing need for preventing the misuses of the network by the internal users which most previous firewalls overlook. In this paper, we propose...

In this paper, I examine the acquisition data of a Mandarin-speaking child Bao-Bao (2;2.7) to study his acquisition of Mandarin classifiers, which are obligatory when a demonstrative or a numeral occurs. I argue that despite the poor input from the caregiver, the child is aware of the classifier projection and the selectional syntactic relation within a Mandarin DP from an early age, which is c...

This paper reviews the background of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems as well as the ethical foundations of individual privacy. A number of applications were also explored with the intention of identifying the technology’s benefits and possible misuses. The authors offer an overview and discussion of the most important ethical issues concerning RFID, describe, and examine some meth...

Mobile application developers are using cryptography in their products to protect sensitive data like passwords, short messages, documents etc. In this paper, we study whether cryptography and related techniques are employed in a proper way, in order to protect these private data. To this end, we downloaded 49 Android applications from the Google Play marketplace and performed static and dynami...