Abstract By focusing predominantly on discourse production and language management, policy research de-emphasizes the material sources of inequality. The paper argues that often restricted by ritualistic symbolic gestures, cannot rectify historically formed relations power calls for critical examination both sociolinguistic socio-economic consequences reforms.

We consider the problem of fair scheduling in a multi-organizational system in which organizations contribute their own resources to the global pool and the jobs to be processed on the common resources. We consider on-line, nonclairvoyant scheduling of sequential jobs without preemption. To ensure that the organizations are willing to cooperate the scheduling algorithm must be fair. To characte...

The degree of trust that an agent has for another is the strength of the agent’s belief that the other will enact its commitments without variation. A strong sense of trust may be sufficient justification for one agent to sign a contract with another when all that matters is the possibility of variation between commitment and enactment. In non-trivial contracts the agents’ information is typica...

J. Whittaker is an associate professor of computer science at the Florida Institute of Technology ([email protected]), S. Atkin is a staff software engineer with the IBM Corporation, Austin, Texas ([email protected]). Abstract—Much of the software engineering literature begins with an admonition that what practitioners are doing isn’t enough—that the state-of-the-practice is creating bad software. T...