How Ought Volunteer Rifle Corps To Be Accoutred?

There ought to be a law?

An Integrated Framework for Ought-to-be and Ought-to-do Constraints 1

An Integrated Framework for Ought-to-be and Ought-to-do Constraints (Extended Abstract)

Deontic logic is the logic to reason about ideal and actual behaviour. Besides the traditional role as an underlying logic for law and ethics (for a survey see [MW]), in the realm of computer science, deontic logic has been proposed as a logic for the specification of legal expert systems [BMT87],[Sta80], authorization mechanisms [ML85], decision support systems [Kd.,88], [Lee88b],[Lee88a], dat...

Position Paper: Shared Memory Ought to be Commonplace

Shared memory as a programming abstraction is widely used within parallel applications. It is not widely used between applications, but we argue that it should be. Specifically, we suggest that shared memory is both faster and more intuitive than the principal alternatives in many cases, and that the general disuse of shared memory facilities in systems such as Unix is due in large part to a la...

How Ought One Parameterize the Milky Way?

1. The parameter glut In a well known paper written a quarter century ago, cosmology was described as a search for two numbers (Sandage 1970). As those of you who have attended any of the parallel sessions of Symposium 167 surely appreciate , today's cosmologists nd more than just two numbers interesting. It is likewise clear from the present symposium that the number of interesting parameters ...