hough Holmes was not writing for a digital age and certainly not for an era of digital rights management (DRM), his remarks may hold some interesting insights for solving the DRM enigma. This article is about the similarities and differences that exist between law and engineering. It is about the nature and value of interdisciplinary research and the importance this approach will have in dealin...

In this paper we propose a conditional logic IBC to represent iterated belief revision. We define an iterated belief revision system by strengthening the postulates proposed by Darwiche and Pearl [3]. First, following the line of Darwiche and Pearl, we modify AGM postulates to make belief revision a function of epistemic states rather than of belief sets. Then we propose a set of postulates for...

This paper studies the possibility of using hosting IP addresses to identify potential spam domains. Current domain blacklisting may not be effective if spammers keep replacing blacklisted domains with newly registered domains. In this study, we cluster spam domains based on their hosting IP addresses and associated email subjects. We found some hosting IP addresses were heavily used by spammer...

Gas turbines incur a loss of output power during hot seasons due to high ambient air temperatures, and input air cooling systems are often used to partly offset this problem. Here, results are reported for an investigation of the utilization of a heat pump to cool the inlet air of a gas turbine compressor. The analyses are carried out for two climates: the city of Yazd, Iran, which has a hot, a...

BACKGROUND Iran is one of the countries that has ratified the World Health Organization Framework Convention of Tobacco Control (WHO-FCTC), and has implemented a series of tobacco control interventions including the Comprehensive Tobacco Control Law. Enforcement of this legislation and assessment of its outcome requires a dedicated evaluation system. This study aimed to develop a generic model ...

As a phenomenon accompanying European expansion, piracy and privateering spread globally, beginning in the sixteenth century. These activities, and their handling within transnational relations, shed light on several issues of modern international law, then under formation. They reflect different basic problems that both challenged and structured central aspects of legal relations on an interna...

We show that Zipf’s Law for the largest clusters is not valid in an exact sense at the critical point of the fragmentation phase transition, contrary to previous claims. Instead, the extracted distributions of the largest clusters reflects the choice of universality class through the value of the critical exponent τ .

The current study empirically demonstrates the widely discussed gap between copyright law and social norms. Theoretically founded in the sociology of law, the study uses a well-defined concept of norms to quantitatively measure changes in the strength of social norms before and after the implementation of legislation. The ‘IPRED law’ was implemented in Sweden on 1 April 2009, as a result of the...

wireless, BlueTooth, TCP/IP, BNEP, inquiry This paper describes our experiences implementing the Connection Diversity framework over the BlueTooth wireless link layer. The goal of this work is to enable TCP / IP applications to transparently use BlueTooth. First, we describe how Connection Diversity interfaces to the link layer and its requirements. We explain in detail various aspects of the i...