The rationale behind irrational decisions

The Rationale behind the Decisions

The first was that there was no explicit power in the Convention to derogate: see paragraph 71. The absence of an explicit power of course does not necessarily mean that a power could not be implied into the Convention. Although the Court did not address the question of implication, the second reason for rejecting the derogation demonstrates why it would not have been able do so: such a power w...

The rationale behind the concept of goal

The paper proposes a fresh look at the concept of goal and advances that motivational attitudes like desire, goal and intention are just facets of the broader notion of (acceptable) outcome. We propose to encode the preferences of an agent as sequences of “alternative acceptable outcomes”. We then study how the agent’s beliefs and norms can be used to filter the mental attitudes out of the sequ...

Design Rationale behind the Identity Metasystem Architecture

Many of the problems facing the Internet today stem from the lack of a widely deployed, easily understood, secure identity solution. Microsoft’s “InfoCard” project and the Identity Metasystem vision underlying it are aimed at filling this gap using technology all can adopt and solutions all can endorse, putting users in control of their identity interactions on the Internet. The design decision...

The rationale behind the Clinton health care reform plan.

The Rationale Behind Strategic Alliances in Application Service Provision

Application service provision, which consists of deploying, managing, and remotely hosting software applications through centrally located servers, is emerging as a new form of application outsourcing that is attractive to many sectors. Partnering in this context has gained major importance among practitioners and researchers. Although this article demonstrates the importance of strategic allia...