We study law enforcement mechanisms within a population of norm-governed learning agents. We show that a traditional analysis based on expected utility can be misleading, because learning agents tend to comply even though their surveillance is stopped. This has significant implications for the design of self-organising institutions with endogenous resources, where the cost of monitoring and nor...

Over the past several years, the business community has devoted considerable attention to corporate responsibility, in order to address significant social and environmental questions with value for business and society. Organizational activities are expected to be transparent to governments, investors, and other stakeholders. Enterprises, governmental institutions, and the public in general ben...

... Rarely has a change in the environment affected society as dramatically as the Internet. ... Further, the Internet environment is particularly conducive to the creation and enforcement of customary law. ... B. The Commission's Response to the Internet Environment: Substance, Enforcement, Mechanisms for Change, and Methods of Change ... The law was adapted to the changing environment of the ...

Access control mechanisms protect critical resources of systems from unauthorized access. In a policy-based management approach, administrators define user privileges as rules that determine the conditions and the extent of users’ access rights. As rules become more complex, analytical skills are required to identify conflicts and interactions within the rules that comprise a system policy – es...

The purpose of this paper is to show that typical information flow policies can be enforced by enforcement mechanisms that work by monitoring a system execution at run time. the system execution represent an event sequence in the system. Our enforcement mechanism has extra structure. In this paper the extra structure become an emulator to work on a subsequence of the observed sequence in order ...