Benford's Law in Information Science

Generalizing Benfords Law Using Power Laws: Application to Integer Sequences

A simple method to derive parametric analytical extensions of Benford’s law for first digits of numerical data is proposed. Two generalized Benford distributions are considered, namely the two-sided power Benford (TSPB) distribution, which has been introduced in Hürlimann(2003), and the new Pareto Benford (PB) distribution. Based on the minimum chisquare estimators, the fitting capabilities of ...

Confidential Business Information in Jurisprudence and Iranian law

As a result of information technology era and possibility of swift access to information, endorsement of Confidential Business Information (CBI) has found an extraordinary importance; whereas the CBI concept and legal warranty in order to support it thoroughly in Iran is not emphasized in the framework of a specific law. This issue has led to legal problems in the trial with allegation of CBI v...

The roots of Knowledge and Information science

Knowledge and Information science is rooted in philosophy and its branches are in sociology. This does not impair its interdisciplinary position. In Iran, the name of "LIS" has undergone a little change and called "knowledge & Information Science (KIS)". Through this change, the importance of philosophy in this discipline has reached its highest level. Knowledge science has a great relationship...

Cognitive science and the law.

Numerous innocent people have been sent to jail based directly or indirectly on normal, but flawed, human perception, memory and decision making. Current cognitive-science research addresses the issues that are directly relevant to the connection between normal cognitive functioning and such judicial errors, and suggests means by which the false-conviction rate could be reduced. Here, we illust...

Science, ethics, and civil law.