New laws are increasingly constraining informations systems.To prevent misuses of the law, requirements engineers are faced with the problem of incorporating legal prescriptions into requirements analysis. Nòmos is an extension of i*, which allows to build models of legal prescriptions alongside intentional elements, and derive this way requirements that at the same time fulfill stakeholder nee...

Complexity Science or Complex System Theory originates from the research fields such as Mathematics, Economics, and Biology. It covers many different disciplines, including Complexity Theory, Catastrophe Theory, Dissipative Structure, Chaos Theory, Fractal Theory, and Self-Organized Criticality, etc., and can be generally called “complexity science perspective”. Due to the fast-changing environ...

A This paper evaluates the role Strategic Research Partnerships (SRPs) play in Asia. Specific Asian institutional settings influence the roles of SRPs. Japan is regarded as a forerunner in the practice of SRPs. In Japan, lack of spillover channels, limited opportunities for mergers and acquisitions, weak university research and pressure for internal diversification motivate firms to form...

adopting a unilateral policy, the united states attacked iraq without permission from the united nations' security council in march 2003. the first intervention of the united states took place in iraq in 1991 with permission from the security council, accompanied by a coalition of the us allies. as a result of this military intervention, the united states managed to liberate kuwait at that...