Recently, there has been an increased amount of attention dedicated to WS-Policy it has become a W3C submission and a working group was formed to standardize the specification. In our previous work, we provided a mapping of WS-Policy to OWL-DL. In this paper, we continue that work by analyzing the operation of policy intersection (determining whether two web service policies are compatible). We...

We characterize the optimal regulatory policy to promote demand response in the electricity sector. Demand response arises when consumers reduce their purchases of electricity in times of peak demand, when the utility’s marginal cost of supplying electricity is relatively high. The optimal policy differs systematically from the policy in the U. S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC’s)...

Thispaper attempts to connect two rather different fields of study by applying concepts from regulating technological risks to the field of cyberspace regulation. The concept of framing assumption is used in order to show the cyberspace regulation differences in  countries particularly between the U.S. and the Euopean system. It shows how the U.S. and Europe have adopted different assumptions r...

background: today, with the rapid growth of scientific production, research misconduct has become a worldwide problem. this article is intended to introduce the successful experience on the management of research paper misconducts in the field of health research. methods: our aim was to design and develop the strategy for research misconduct policy. focusing on the national regulatory system, w...