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CLAN : a tool for contract analysis and conflict discovery [PDF]
As Service-Oriented Architectures are more widely adopted, it becomes more important to adopt measures for ensuring that the services satisfy functional and non-functional requirements.
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Abstract Political philosophy should focus not on uplifting ideals, but rather, so I argue, on minimizing serious suffering. This is so not because other things do not ultimately matter (they do), but rather because in the political context, the stakes in terms of suffering are usually extremely high, so that any other considerations are almost always ...
David Enoch
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Conflict analysis of deontic contracts [PDF]
Industry is currently pushing towards Service Oriented Architecture where code execution is not limited to the organisational borders but may extend outside of the organisation to which the sources are typically not accessible.
Fenech, Stephen +3 more
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“Magic concepts” and USAID: Framing food systems reform to support the status quo
Abstract Motivation International development policy is increasingly a contested site of agricultural politics. Many civil society organizations actively engage with alternative frameworks including sustainability, sovereignty, and self‐reliance to challenge the prevailing neoliberal construct of food systems.
Lia R. Kelinsky‐Jones +2 more
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Deontic Epistemic stit Logic Distinguishing Modes of `Mens Rea\u27 [PDF]
Most juridical systems contain the principle that an act is only unlaw- ful if the agent conducting the act has a `guilty mind\u27 (`mens rea\u27). Dif- ferent law systems distinguish different modes of mens rea.
Broersen, Jan M.
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Epistemic normativity without epistemic teleology
Abstract This article is concerned with a puzzle that arises from three initially plausible assumptions that form an inconsistent triad: (i) Epistemic reasons are normative reasons (normativism); (ii) reasons are normative only if conformity with them is good (the reasons/value‐link); (iii) conformity with epistemic reasons need not be good (the ...
Benjamin Kiesewetter
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Basic Action Deontic Logic [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to introduce a system of dynamic deontic logic in which the main problems related to the definition of deontic concepts, especially those emerging from a standard analysis of permission in terms of possibility of doing an action ...
Canavotto, Ilaria, Giordani, Alessandro
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A Petri Net-Based Notation for Normative Modeling: Evaluation on Deontic Paradoxes
Developing systems operating in alignment with norms is not a straightforward endeavour. Part of the problems derive from the suggestion that law concerns a system of norms, which, in abstract, in a fixed point in time, could be approached and expressed atemporally, but, when it is contextualized and applied, it deals with a continuous flow of events ...
Sileno, G., Boer, A., van Engers, T.
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A Gentzen System for Reasoning with Contrary-To-Duty Obligations: A Preliminary Study [PDF]
In this paper we present a Gentzen system for reasoning with contrary-to-duty obligations. The intuition behind the system is that a contrary-to-duty is a special kind of normative exception.
Governatori, Guido, Rotolo, Antonino
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A framework and methodology---termed LogiKEy---for the design and engineering of ethical reasoners, normative theories and deontic logics is presented.
Benzmüller, Christoph +2 more
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