A folk theorem for repeated matching games is established that holds if the stage game is not a pure coordination game. It holds independent of population size and for all matching rules—including rules that depend on players choices or the history of play. This paper also establishes an equilibrium condition and using this discovers two di¤erences between the equilibria of repeated matching ga...

In this extended abstract we borrow an example from the Portuguese Penal Code to advocate that norms used to regulate interaction in human societies, just as those used in multi-agent systems, require the joint use of the features based on the Closed World Assumption of rules in Logic Programming and those based on the Open World Assumption of ontologies in Description Logics, all of which are ...

In this extended abstract we borrow an example from the Portuguese Penal Code to advocate that norms used to regulate interaction in human societies, just as those used in multi-agent systems, require the joint use of the features based on the Closed World Assumption of rules in Logic Programming and those based on the Open World Assumption of ontologies in Description Logics, all of which are ...

BACKGROUND The Danish Medico-Legal Council provides the court with statements based on available psychiatric assessment reports to assist the law in the use of the Penal Code sections on mentally disordered offenders. AIMS To analyse the impact of the Council on the courts' choice between punishment and treatment in cases of offenders falling under §69 of the Penal Code, i.e. mentally disorde...

The Criminal Code of 1902 was in effect until October 2015, and has consequently framed Norwegian criminal law for more than a Century. The code was originally part of a larger penal reform and pivotal in Norwegian socialand criminal policy-making at the turn of the century. The Law Professor Francis Hagerup (1853-1921) emphasised the year before the code was adopted that the reform did not onl...