Douglas Walton has done extensive and valuable work on the concepts of presumption and practical reasoning. However, Walton’s attempt to model practical reasoning as presumptive is misguided. The notions of “inference” and of the burden of proof shifting back and forth between proponent and respondent are misleading and lead to counterintuitive consequences. Because the issue in practical reaso...

Cet article aborde la question du personnage non-conflictuel contemporain à partir de figure l’adversaire telle que l’a imaginée Emmanuel Carrère. Après diverses tentatives plus ou moins fructueuses, l’auteur L’adversaire (2000) trouve dans le tueur Jean-Claude Romand un qui donne enfin toute sa force tragique au non conflit. Il ne s’agit pas faire portrait d’un être “monstrueux”, serait l’inca...

L’article explore le concept d’occidentalisme et sa représentation dans la récente superproduction chinoise, The Battle at Lake Changjin. L’auteur soutient que film représente une résurgence de l’occidentalisme cinéma populaire chinois, renforçant binaire Est-Ouest promouvant un récit supériorité chinoise. La discussion commence par mise en contexte des origines historiques du son rôle formatio...

La convention entre la France et l’Italie signée le 15 septembre 1864 a provoqué, dans capitale Turinoise, de violents tumultes une répression sanglante. Malgré les titres Nazione du 21 annonçant que Florence « accepterait garde grand diadème pour restituer jour venu où cesserait l’attente sur chemin Rome », l’annonce transfert ne soulève pas d’enthousiasme particulier toscane. Dès 1862, Gariba...

<p>This paper is about the analysis of moral discourse, an under-investigated field in linguistics. Taking political speeches as analytical data, study focuses on expressing ethical judgments used a means destabilization opponent. The adopted method empirical-inductive and qualitative. Thus, empirical verification validity research hypotheses has been possible through exploration interpre...

In this paper we consider the problem of targeted attacks in large scale peer-to-peer overlays. Targeted attacks aimed at exhausting key resources of targeted hosts to diminish the target node capacity to provide or receive services. To defend the system against such attacks, we rely on clustering and implement induced churn to preserve randomness of nodes identifiers so that adversarial predic...

Abstract What role does the international audience play in nuclear crises? Scholars of crises and deterrence have treated as dyadic interactions between two sides. However, states do not only interact with each other during a crisis. They also signal to third actor—the audience. There are reasons for this. First, care about their social reputation want be perceived responsible legitimate actors...

Since the 1980s, two approaches have been developed for analyzing security protocols. One of the approaches relies on a computational model that considers issues of complexity and probability. This approach captures a strong notion of security, guaranteed against all probabilistic polynomial-time attacks. The other approach relies on a symbolic model of protocol executions in which cryptographi...

We analyze a distributed system where n nodes called boxes store a large set of videos and collaborate to serve simultaneously n videos or less. We explore under which conditions such a system can be scalable while serving any sequence of demands. We model this problem through a combination of two algorithms: a video allocation algorithm and a connection scheduling algorithm. The latter plays a...