Co-National and Cosmopolitan Obligations towards Foreigners

Co-national Obligations & Cosmopolitan Obligations towards Foreigners

Towards Modelling Obligations in Event-B

We propose a syntactic extension of Event-B incorporating a limited notion of obligation described by triggers. The trigger of an event is the dual of the guard: when a guard is not true, an event must not occur, whereas when a trigger is true, the event must occur. The obligation imposed by a trigger is interpreted as a constraint on when the other events are permitted. For example, the simple...

Ratio Analysis: A Comparative Study of National Petrochemicals Co. and Sahara Petrochemicals Co. of Saudi Arabia

Financial Statement of a company is a reflection of the operational and financial position of a company. The comparative analysis of two companies similar in nature, size, work, location and objectives etc., facilitates an understanding of the operational and financial soundness of the companies. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is aiming for rapid industrialization in its economy. Sahara Petrochemi...

Towards Scalable Management of Privacy Obligations in Enterprises

Privacy management is important for enterprises that collect, store, access and disclose personal data. Among other things, the management of privacy includes dealing with privacy obligations: privacy obligations dictate duties and expectations an enterprise has to comply with, in terms of data retention, deletion, notice requirements, etc. This is a green area open to research and innovation. ...

Towards certification of TLA+ proof obligations with SMT solvers

TLA+ is a formal specification language that is based on Zermelo-Fränkel set theory and the Temporal Logic of Actions TLA. The TLA+ proof system TLAPS assists users in deductively verifying safety properties of TLA+ specifications. TLAPS is built around a proof manager, which interprets the TLA+ proof language, generates corresponding proof obligations, and passes them to backend verifiers. In ...