Complexity, Accent, and Conviviality: Concluding Comments

Complexity, accent and conviviality: Concluding comments

Concluding comments: OIE leadership, significant trends and future developments.

At the turn of the century, the Members of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) decided to include animal welfare in the OIE Strategic Plan for the period 2001 to 2005. This decision reflected the ever-increasing public, media, scientific and political interest in the subject over the previous 50 or so years. Global conferences on animal welfare, held in Paris (2004), Cairo (2008) and...

Some Concluding Comments on the Debates and the Responses

Theo Hermans It is surprising that the notion of equivalence should have loomed so large in the debate. In my paper the discussion of equivalence constitutes little more than a rearguard action. The suggestion was that the logic of working with a norms concept must inevitably lead to scepticism concerning the viability of equivalence. If translation is norm-governed as well as intentional, one-...

Conviviality measures

Conviviality has been introduced as a social science concept for multiagent systems to highlight soft qualitative requirements like user friendliness of systems. In this paper we introduce formal conviviality measures for dependence networks using a coalitional game theoretic framework, which we contrast with more traditional efficiency and stability measures. Roughly, more opportunities to wor...

Conviviality-Driven Access Control Policy

Nowadays many organizations experience security incidents due to unauthorized access to information. To reduce the risk of such incidents, security policies are often employed to regulate access to information. Such policies, however, are often too restrictive, and users do not have the rights necessary to perform assigned duties. As a consequence, access control mechanisms are perceived by use...