In this article I argue for greater attention to be paid to science fiction within sociolegal scholarship. In the first half of this paper I highlight that science fiction and law are already intertwined, science fiction having been commented on in a number of judicial decisions and law having been the focus of a number of science fiction texts. I then move on to outline how the law and science...

Resource trading in cloud environments for utility maximisation using game theoretic modelling approach Ayoub Alsarhan & Ahmad Al-Khasawneh To cite this article: Ayoub Alsarhan & Ahmad Al-Khasawneh (2015): Resource trading in cloud environments for utility maximisation using game theoretic modelling approach, International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, DOI: 10.1080/1744...

Qadir Bux alias Imran Latif*, Ismail Abdul Rahman*, Ahmad Mujahid Ahmad Zaidi**, Kamran Latif, Aftab Hameed*, Sasitharan Nagapan * * Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia University (UTHM), 86400, Parit Raja, Johor, Malaysia ** Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, National Defence University of Malaysia (UPNM), 57000, Kem Sungai Besi, ...

Citation: Ahmad GR, Kumar S, Ahmad D and Shammas MA (2017) Risk Assessment to Evaluate if Crayons Complying with the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 for Lead, Also Comply with California Proposition 65. Front. Public Health 5:130. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2017.00130 Risk Assessment to Evaluate if Crayons Complying with the Consumer product Safety improvement Act of 2008 for Lead, Also...

How can we design good goals for arbitrarily intelligent agents? Reinforcement learning (RL) is a natural approach. Unfortunately, RL does not work well for generally intelligent agents, as RL agents are incentivised to shortcut the reward sensor for maximum reward – the so-called wireheading problem. In this paper we suggest an alternative to RL called value reinforcement learning (VRL). In VR...

When talking about unfair competition, business ethics has to be involved, which means to judge whether the competition is fair or not is very much ethical debate. And its connotation is also evolving along with the development of social economy, so in this sense, defining “fair competition” or “unfair competition” is very difficult. Therefore, whether it is related to international conventions...

The notion of ‘wireheading’, or direct reward centre stimulation of the brain, is a wellknown concept in neuroscience. In this paper, we examine the corresponding issue of reward (utility) function integrity in artificially intelligent machines. We survey the relevant literature and propose a number of potential solutions to ensure the integrity of our artificial assistants. Overall, we conclud...

When thinking about the future, people tend to envision dramatically advanced technology, architecture that resembles something from another planet, and social norms that have shifted in radical ways—all of it vivid, dynamic, and exciting. What people don’t realize is that the story they tell themselves about the future actually has rules. The mind applies these rules to ensure that people arri...

In my thesis, I examine the discursive space of the detective fiction genre following Kasai Kiyoshi’s periodization in his two-volume seminal work Tantei shōsetsuron (The Theory of Detective Fiction, 1998). I investigate how Japanese detective fiction has developed in relation to Japan’s modernization, industrialization, nationalism, and globalization, specifically in the 1920s-30s, the 1950s-6...

In this paper, we prove that the position vector of every space curve satisfies a vector differential equation of fourth order. Also, we determine the parametric representation of the position vector ψ = (