Anonymous distributed systems consist of potentially millions of heterogeneous processing nodes connected by the global Internet. These nodes can be administered by thousands of organizations and individuals, with no direct knowledge of each other. Several approaches have been proposed to handle the technical aspects of such systems; this paper addresses some social, ethical, and legal aspects,...

in this paper, behavior of teleoperation systems with modeling error and delay time error in smith predictor is discussed. in teleoperation systems, modeling error is inevitable. this paper discusses stability of teleoperation systems with modeling error. first, error of delay time in teleoperation systems by using of internet as communication channel is considered and the performance of smith ...

Access to legal knowledge is particularly challenging to information retrieval systems. Not only is legal knowledge usually expressed in linguistically complex forms, but it is also structurally sophisticated (e.g pieces of legislation applicable to a case, version in force of a legal document, other related sources). Modeling the collection of documents in such complex domains requires taking ...

Considerable academic effort is being expended in considering how to regulate various activities on the internet, particularly those as relate to obscene material, breaches of privacy and challenges to intellectual property rights. Post and Johnson (1997) offer the following solution which is typical; 'We believe that the most obvious answer to this question -existing territorial sovereigns -ma...

in sale of goods, the delivered goods must conform both to what is the subject of contract and to what the parties intend. conformity of goods has two aspects: legal and material. the legal aspect, with which this article concerns, consist of such topics as right of sale, ownership of seller, lack of third party’s claim and so on .since domestic and international transactions are increasing, th...

Proper name systems provide individuals with personal identifiers, and convey social and hereditary information. We identify a common information structure in the name grammars of the world’s languages, which makes this complex information processing task manageable, and evaluate the impact that the re-engineering of naming practices for legal and political purposes has had on the communicative...

One of the most pervasive and recurrent issues that legal theory has had to deal with is the very concept of law. And one of the most puzzling questions that cyberspace lawyers have been jacing is where and in which form law is to be found on the Internet. This essay seeks to build a bridge between these two issues. The main argument is that, on the Internet and more specifically in the context...