as a result of rule of law ideal, judges are required to act in accordance with laws. the ideal is justified by some political values: political liberty, legal liberty , personal liberty and equality. citizens are subject only to the law not to the arbitrary will or judgment of another who wields coercive government power. but in some cases law is indeterminate. in these cases there is an impor...

Recently, the railway system is advancing to be intelligent according to the development of computer technology, and especially, many functions of train control system which are cores to the railway system are being operated by the software. Accordingly, the source code testing to validate safety of the railway train control system software becomes to be more important, and related internationa...

This specification defines a load-control event package for the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). It allows SIP entities to distribute load-filtering policies to other SIP entities in the network. The load-filtering policies contain rules to throttle calls from a specific user or based on their source or destination domain, telephone number prefix. The mechanism helps to prevent signaling over...

This paper proposes a framework for the specification of communication laws to regulate interactions among agents participating to the same multi-agent application. Since agents possess a sort of human-like behavior, our proposal is made taking as reference human communication characteristics. Starting from the analysis of interaction dynamics in human world, a new model for agent interaction i...

Once upon a time Americans had a culture of food to guide us through the increasingly treacherous landscape of food choices: fat vs. carbs, organic vs. conventional, vegetarian vs. carnivorous. Culture in this case is just a fancy way of saying "your mom." She taught us what to eat, when to eat it, how much of it to eat, even the order in which to eat it. But Mom's influence over the dinner men...