Safe language technology, which can be used for protection within a single address space, is not a new idea in operating system area. As Java is becoming more and more popular, many researches use the type safety feature in Java as an alternative to hardware-based protection in systems. However, safe language alone is not sufficient to provide similar protection as that is found in traditional ...

Can Neuroscience Resolve Issues about Free Will? ” Adina Roskies knits together traditional and modern philosophical ideas with emerging concepts arising from the neuroscience of decision making. It is an elegant and nuanced synthesis. Roskies feels the neurobiology of decision making offers insight into the machine behind the mind while arguing that mechanism does not undermine mindedness or t...

The primary issues concern whether objects have colours, and what sorts of properties the colours are. Some philosophers hold that nothing is coloured, others that colour are powers to affect perceivers, and others that colours are physical properties.

We present a transform that enables traditional Shortest-Feasible-Plan planners to reason about uncertain operators and produce plans which have higher probabilities of success. This transform converts a probability-aware domain description into a STRIPS-style description, where the probability of success is expressed by plan length. Using this transformed description a plan can be generated by...

In Section B we discussed a range of reasons why nations may share an interest in cooperating with one another in trade matters. In this section we extend the analysis to examine fundamental issues of treaty design, focusing on two main questions. First, what are the core rules that any good trade agreement must contain so as to reap the envisaged benefits from cooperation? Second, how does the...