Compromise reached over German copyright bill

The Fight Over Digital Rights: The Politics of Copyright and Technology - By Bill D. Herman

Have “new” methods in medical education reached German-speaking Central Europe: a survey

BACKGROUND Simulation-based-training (SBT) in the education of health professionals is discussed as an effective alternative for knowledge and skills enhancement as well as for the establishment of a secure learning environment, for learners and patients. In the Anglo-American region, SBT and simulation and training centers (STC) are numbered as standard for medical training. In German-speaking...

Copyright Protection for Electronic Publishing over Computer Networks

The increased availability of computers, printers and high-speed networks could make electronic publishing a reality. One of the major technical and economic challenges faced by electronic publishing is that of preventing individuals from easily copying and illegally distributing electronic documents. In this paper, we explore the use of cryptographic protocols to discourage the distribution of...

Conflict and compromise over tradeoffs in universal health insurance plans.

Compromise in Negotiation: Exploiting Worth Functions over States

Previous work 32, 33, 35, 37] discussed inter-agent negotiation protocols. One of the main assumptions there was that the agents' goals remain xed|the agents cannot relax their initial goals, which can be achieved only as a whole and cannot be partially achieved. A goal there was considered a formula that is either satissed or not satissed by a given state. We here present a more general approa...