Customary management systems (i.e., management systems that limit the use of marine resources), such as rotational fisheries closures, can limit harvest of resources. Nevertheless, the explicit goals of customary management are often to influence fish behavior (in particular flight distance, i.e., distance at which an organism begins to flee an approaching threat), rather than fish abundance. W...

This short paper introduces the Interaction Predicate model, which attempts to model some aspects of systematic interpretation of codified law. It introduces an intermediate rule representation containing dynamic reasoning elements which make use of domain knowledge ontologies.

The main techniques for optical pattern recognition are those based on the correlation between a test and an image. Phase-only filters (POFs) have good features for the recogni­ tion process: high discrimination capability between simi­ lar objects and high sharp correlation peaks. Nevertheless, most of the graphic devices and spatial light modulators, such as CRTs, liquid crystal TVs (LCTVs), ...

Discussions about aboriginal-non-aboriginal relations in Canada have stressed the need to recognize “aboriginal customary law” in self-government arrangements. It is maintained that many aspects of “native law” differ radically from the legal systems that emerged in European countries, and so imposing Canadian conceptions of law on aboriginal communities is an obstacle to native self-determinat...

This paper proposes that quality criteria are set up for machine translation systems that attempt to capture what can be considered the upper limit for the performance of MT systems. It argues that the best performance MT currently should aim for is close translation, and that attempts should be made to codify what that entails for any given language pair. Some guidelines for the selection of c...

A process model, in the context of e-commerce, is an organized set of activities for the creation, (re)production, trade and delivery of goods. Electronic commerce studies have created important process models for the trade of physical goods via Internet. These models are not easily suitable for the trade of information goods. Lowly codified information goods are hard to represent unambiguously...