the normativity of mental content thesis appears to have been the most influential in contemporary philosophy of mind. paul boghossian (2003, 2005) has developed an argument for the normativity of mental content on the basis of two premises, i.e. firstly, the normativity of the notion of belief and secondly, the priority of the notion of belief to the notion of desire. in his recent article ale...

The study of interdependent networks has become a new research focus in recent years. We focus on one fundamental property of interdependent networks: vulnerability. Previous studies mainly focused on the impact of topological properties upon interdependent networks under random attacks, the effect of degree heterogeneity on structural vulnerability of interdependent networks under intentional ...

Increasing evidence shows that real-world systems interact with one another via dependency connectivities. Failing connectivities are the mechanism behind the breakdown of interacting complex systems, e.g., blackouts caused by the interdependence of power grids and communication networks. Previous research analyzing the robustness of interdependent networks has been limited to undirected networ...

menting other scheduling objectives, such as the minimization of buffering requirements, in a manner that is guaranteed not to interfere with code compaction goals. We have defined a class of SDF graphs called tightly interdependent graphs. Schedules for arbitrary SDF graphs can be constructed such that each block that is not contained in a tightly interdependent subgraph appears only once, and...

Managing security risks in the Internet has so far mostly involved methods to reduce the risks and the severity of the damages. Those methods (such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention, etc) reduce but do not eliminate risk, and the question remains on how to handle the residual risk. In this paper, we consider the problem of whether buying insurance to protect the Internet and its ...

German sociologist Ulrich Beck declared two decades ago, in 1992, that we are living in a "risk society" [2]. Not only do we face risks from natural hazards that are beyond human control, such as earthquakes and tsunamis, we also make conscious decisions to create, negotiate, and accept risks from man-made hazards, including radiation from nuclear power plants, chest x-rays, flying in an airpla...