Although the Automatically Switched Optical Networks (ASON) specifications strongly recommend a hierarchical network architecture for these networks, this is still an open issue. The hierarchical network concept involves several mechanisms mainly related with signalling and routing, such as the aggregation scheme, the dissemination process, the updating policy and the routing algorithms. The ex...

The authors sincerely thank the editor for putting our paper under review. We also sincerely thank the reviewers for taking your valuable time to provide instrumental feedback for our paper. We greatly appreciate your feedback. After perusing all of your feedback and comments, we decided to undertake a major revision for the paper by mainly focusing on genomic literacy of physicians in oncology...

Although Marek Sergot’s contribution to Artificial Intelliegnce and Law is mainly associated with the formalisation of legislation as a logic program, he also wrote on an approach to the treatment of open textured concepts in law, using argumentation. That paper posed the question what makes an argument persuasive? This short paper considers the ideas of that paper and discusses developments in...

There are a lot of comparisons concerning the selection of the best approach for tumours of the cavernous sinus. Many experienced authors stated that the approach must be tailored to the nature and the exact location of the tumour in the cavernous sinus and neighbouring structures 2,4,5,6,11,12,13. Although chondromas are considering to be true tumours of the cavernous sinus, because of the rar...