New laws are increasingly constraining informations systems.To prevent misuses of the law, requirements engineers are faced with the problem of incorporating legal prescriptions into requirements analysis. Nòmos is an extension of i*, which allows to build models of legal prescriptions alongside intentional elements, and derive this way requirements that at the same time fulfill stakeholder nee...

Article 2.612 of the Civil Code provides: "The law applicable to maintenance obligation shall be determined in accordance with rules European Union law."
 The governing is found regulations (European Commission, 2008). 
 Romania has concluded Conventions (e.g. Convention between and Kingdom Belgium on recognition enforcement judgments matters relating obligations) Legal Assistance Tre...

A permissionless innovation regulatory model, importantly featuring a default presumption of approval of innovators’ new activities, is credited with fostering the development of the Internet. For the first time, this regulatory model is being explored for adoption in the outer space domain, a reasonable choice given the amount of innovation by commercial entities in that sector. However, trans...

Traditional models of agents based on Beliefs, Desires and Intentions usually only include either desires or goals. Therefore the process whereby goals arise from desires is given scant attention. In this paper we argue that the inclusion of both desires and goals in the same model can be important, particularly in a Multi-Agent System context, where other sources of individual motivation such ...

Pakistan’s new government which assumed office under President Musharraf in October 1999 was faced with four main challenges: heavy external and domestic indebtedness; high fiscal deficit and low revenue generation capacity; rising poverty and unemployment; weak balance of payments. In addition, Pakistan was perceived as a highly corrupt country with poor governance. A survey by Transparency In...