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Éditorial: Informatique et devenir

Être médecin à Rome

controllers were not alone in seeking to end such traditional ideas and practices. Women were informed by magistrates and medical men that life did exist before quickening and that any interference-not that just carried out by a third party with a sharp instrument-could be described as an attempt at abortion. But by the 1920s lawyers and doctors were expressing their own unhappiness with the 18...

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Analyse territoriale du bien-être avec HyperAtlas

This paper questions the definition and analysis of sustainable wellfare indicators. We first present the context and issues of such matter. Then, we compare HyperAtlas, a generic tool for multiscalar territorial analysis that we have developed, with the existing softwares that deal with spatial analysis and, among them, some that specifically address wellfare indicators. Therefore, we identify...

La négociation du bien-être social utilitaire

The multi-agent resource allocation problem corresponds to the negotiation of m resources among n autonomous agents in order to maximize a social welfare. Contrary to some former studies, the purpose is neither here to simply determine a socially optimal resource allocation nor to prove the existence of a transaction sequence leading to this optimum, but to find a practical transaction sequence...