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Smart Contracts Contracts [PDF]
Frontiers in Blockchain, 2020 This paper explores the connection between software contracts and smart contracts. Despite the assonance, these two terms denote quite different concepts: software contracts are logical properties of software components, while smart contracts are programs executed on blockchains. What is the relation between them?
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European Journal of Combinatorics, 2011 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Golovach, Petr A. +3 more
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Buildings, 2023 The construction industry in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is a significant sector in the Middle East, with annual expenditures surpassing USD 120 billion.
Reda Abdelshafy Abougamil +2 more
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Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2023 We explore the deliberate infusion of ambiguity into the design of contracts. We show that when the agent is ambiguity‐averse and hence chooses an action that maximizes their minimum utility, the principal can strictly gain from using an ambiguous contract, and this gain can be arbitrarily high.
Paul Dütting +3 more
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The Complexity of Contracts [PDF]
SIAM Journal on Computing, 2020 We initiate the study of computing (near-)optimal contracts in succinctly representable principal-agent settings. Here optimality means maximizing the principal's expected payoff over all incentive-compatible contracts---known in economics as "second-best" solutions. We also study a natural relaxation to approximately incentive-compatible contracts. We
Paul Duetting +2 more
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Sources, Methods, and Financing Contracts in Oil and Gas Projects [PDF]
حقوق فناوریهای نوین, 2021 Financing is one of the key issues in investment contracts and the oil and gas industry. Oil and gas projects play an important role in the development of the economy of the oil-owning country, and therefore their implementation requires high costs and ...
Maghsoud Imani Markid, Naeimeh Darvishi
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Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery, 2006 Residents completing colon and rectal surgery training should take seriously the terms of contracts offered to them. Contracts should specify how and how much salary will be paid, what benefits the surgeon will receive, and what services are to be provided.
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Proceedings of the 19th Australasian conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Entertaining User Interfaces, 2007 This paper presents data and analysis from a long term ethnographic study of the design and development of an electronic patient records system in a UK hospital Trust. The project is a public private partnership (PPP) between the Trust and a US based software house (OurComp) contracted to supply, configure and support their customizable-off-the-shelf ...
David B. Martin 0001 +3 more
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Sobre la extrapolación de la literatura del inglés jurídico: la presencia de latinismos crudos en los contratos de colaboración estadounidenses [PDF]
Estudios Interlingüísticos, 2021 El presente artículo tiene por objetivo constatar la presencia de latinismos crudos en los contratos de colaboración estadounidenses con la finalidad de observar la posibilidad o imposibilidad de extrapolar la literatura existente sobre los latinismos ...
Valeria Hernández García
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Jurisprudential Investigation into Virtual Money [PDF]
تحقیقات مالی اسلامی (پیوسته), 2017 Virtual money is a new phenomenon which has emerged in modern societies as the virtual world is increasingly gaining momentum. It is not a long time since the idea of virtual money came to existence and became operational, yet various types of virtual ...
Mohammad Mahdi Soleymanipour +2 more
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