Time Certainty in Negotiable Paper

Usury in the Purchase of Negotiable Paper

The Illusion of Certainty - Paper

Acquisition policy and, even more so, acquisition practice today presumes that certainty is key to success, and that uncertainty or delays in achieving certainty regarding user needs or solution approach will necessarily impede progress. This means that when uncertainty arises during an acquisition effort, the natural response is to make decisions that resolve this uncertainty. Uncertainties ar...

Cost Certainty and Time Certainty: an International Investigation

Cost certainty and time certainty are major concerns to both clients and contractors, as they have a direct impact on resources. An international study of contractors’ cost certainty and time certainty is presented. Based on the performance and practice of contractors in Japan, the UK and the US, the multiple regression analysis reveals cost certainty to be influenced by time certainty and its ...

Book Review: Cases on the Law of Negotiable Paper and Banking

Negotiable Interfaces for Components

Component specifications are vital for communicating a component’s requirements, as components are subject to third-party composition. Most modern programming languages lack sufficient features to express the full requirements of a component, however, much less enforce them. Preand post-conditions can capture functional aspects of a component’s requirements, but are unable to express many tempo...