This paper investigates the epistemic assumptions that David Lewis makes in his account of social conventions. In particular, I focus on the assumption that the agents have common knowledge of the convention to which they are parties. While evolutionary analyses show that the common knowledge assumption is unnecessary in certain classes of games, Lewis’ original account (and, more recently, Cub...

An I/O automata solution to the problem posed in 1994 by Broy & Lamport at the Dagstuhl Workshop on Reactive Systems is presented. The problem calls for speciication and veriication of memory and remote procedure call components. The problem speciication consists of an untimed and a timed part. In this paper, both parts are solved completely.

This paper explored the use of ImportancePerformance Analysis in assessing the competitiveness of China’s Macao Special Administrative Region as a city for international conventions. Determinants of destination choice for convention tourists are grouped under three factors, namely the convention factor, the city factor and the tourism factor. Attributes of these three factors were studied throu...

The principle of discrimination (or distinction, as it is sometimes called in legal circles) requires that soldiers treat civilians differently from fellow soldiers, generally not attacking the former except in extreme situations. The Geneva Conventions call for a clear separation of people into two camps: those who are protected from assault, including army medical personnel, injured soldiers,...

according to the preamble of the framework convention for the protection of national minorities (which entered into force on february 1, 1998) minority rights are an integral part of fundamental human rights. universal level that taken on great importance in addressing the challenges of minority protection in evolving and increasingly diverse societies. so, this survey has an analytical appro...

as iran has adhered to new york convention on recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards since 2003, according to article 9 of iranian civil code, the convention’s provisions are treated as part of iranian laws and regulations. this essay, in order to clarify the enforcement regime provided by new york convention, which is now part of the positive legal system of the country, after ...

the appliance of international instruments in the field of literally and artistic property rights has cause a well-established and stable international aspect in comparison with its domestic aspect. this discipline has been founded on the basis of the berne convention, 1886, the universal copyright convention, 1952, and the rome convention, 1961, which their translations have all been published...

As shown by the development of Special Relativity the simultaneity concept should be related to that of reference frame. Poincaré proposed to define the simultaneity of two events by means of light signals following what is nowadays known as the Einstein simultaneity convention. The need of a simultaneity definition is present also in general relativity and in curved spacetimes in order to prov...

, number 1 , July 2016 :e 20154195 The 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN Convention)1 provides children with the right of the highest attainable standard of health (article 24). All countries in the world except the United States have now ratified this convention, which has implications for national health policy and priorities regarding health care for every child. ...