COUNCIL WILL FACE THREE PETITIONS

"Whistleblowers will face bullying from every side".

Temporal dynamics of online petitions

Online petitions are an important avenue for direct political action, yet the dynamics that determine when a petition will be successful are not well understood. Here we analyze the temporal characteristics of online-petition signing behavior in order to identify systematic differences between popular petitions, which receive a high volume of signatures, and unpopular ones. We find that, in lin...

Privacy preserving electronic petitions

We present the design of a secure and privacy preserving epetition system that we have implemented as a proof-of-concept demonstrator. We use the Belgian e-ID card as source of authentication, and then proceed to issue an anonymous credential that is used to sign petitions. Our system ensures that duplicate signatures are detectable, while preserving the anonymity of petition signers. We analyz...

Doubting Free Will: Three Experiments

This moral presumption against infliction of suffering has particular relevance in the field of criminal law because, as a system of retribution, the criminal justice system is institutionally committed to the infliction of human suffering. Simply put, suffering is inflicted to make people “pay” for the crimes that they commit. Of course, the criminal justice system often has other goals as wel...

Three - Dimensional Face Modelling

This thesis describes methods for modelling the shape, texture and appearance of human faces in three dimensions. These models provide a foundation for applications such as image segmentation and object recognition. The models use a data set of 24 faces acquired using a 3-D scanner. To make the data useful in a statistical context, the representation of the objects must be unified, a process ca...