The Partiality of the Democracy of the Moderns Analysis of the theory of modern representative systems (which in the twentieth century ended up being called “democracies”), whether it be Hans Kelsen’s or Joseph Schumpeter’s, makes it possible to say – simplifying a little – that what has been called democracy of the moderns consists of the following: in competitive and regular elections, citize...

Hans Hüttel, Aalborg University Ivan Lanese, University of Bologna/INRIA Vasco T. Vasconcelos, University of Lisbon Luís Caires, New University of Lisbon Marco Carbone, ITU Copenhagen Pierre-Malo Deniélou, Royal Holloway, University of London Dimitris Mostrous, University of Lisbon Luca Padovani, University of Turin António Ravara, New University of Lisbon Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester...

From 1929 onwards, C. I. Lewis defended the foundationalist claim that judgements of the form ‘x is probable’ only make sense if one assumes there to be a ground y that is certain (where x and y may be beliefs, propositions, or events). Without this assumption, Lewis argues, the probability of x could not be anything other than zero. Hans Reichenbach repeatedly contested Lewis’s idea, calling i...

The ACM/SIGGRAPH Symposia on Solid Modeling and Applications provide an international forum for the exchange of recent research and practical results in all areas and applications of solid modeling. These symposia bring together prominent researchers, practitioners, and numerous students in the field. The sixth ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications was held in Ann Arbor, Michigan on ...

Received June 6, 1994, and in revised form October 20, 1994. Expanded version of the Retiring Presidential Address presented to the annual meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic at the University of Florida, Gainesville, March 7, 1994. Material from this paper was also presented in lectures to the Fifteenth Annual Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, and at the Univer...

Hans Meinhardt is a theoretical developmental biologist working at the Max-Planck-Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen. He has pioneered the use of mathematical modelling of embryonic pattern formation. He received his PhD from the University of Cologne in Physics. For a postdoctoral fellowship, he went to the European High Energy Laboratory CERN at Geneva. By collaborating in an exp...

European Journal of Information Systems (2008) 17, 555–556. doi:10.1057/ejis.2008.58 It is my pleasure to write the editorial for the last issue of this year of the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS). This issue contains no less than nine papers. It is my privilege to introduce them below. We are starting off this issue with a paper from Thompson Teo and Bing Men on knowledge portal...