to try to bring them into line with their obligations under the TRIPS agreement. This national process is likely to accelerate the biopiracy phenomenon. With careful and intelligent legal and policy choices, developing countries can try to avoid some of the worse aspects of implementing their TRIPS obligations. But a fundamental rethink and amendment of the multilateral rules is essential if th...

The paper draws on an argument from Hanns Ullrich that the Agreement Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) suffers for a legitimacy gap. This gap takes the form external conditioning states’ sovereignty over innovation in markets. paper argues there is less-discussed and somewhat darker TRIPS. relates to US national security state (NSS) its use intellectual prope...

The paper focuses on transportation trip generation models based on mixed-use and transport infrastructure near the site. Transport trip generation models are considered with an aim to improve the accuracy of transport generated trips. Information systems are reviewed, and “smart growth” criteria that could affect the accuracy of trip generation models are also identified. Experimental results ...

We present the SC-ABD algorithm that implements sequentially consistent distributed shared memory (DSM). The algorithm tolerates that less than half of the processes are faulty (crash-stop). Compared to the multi-writer ABD algorithm, SC-ABD requires one instead of two round-trips of communication to perform a write operation, and an equal number of round-trips (two) to perform a read operation...

GPS tracklogs provide a valuable record of routes travelled. In this paper we describe initial experiments exploring the use of text information retrieval techniques for the location of similar trips from within a GPS tracklog. We performed the experiment on a dataset of 528 individual trips gathered over a seven month time period from a single user. The results of our preliminary study suggest...

Searching for optimal ways in a network is an important task in multiple application areas such as social networks, co-citation graphs or road networks. In the majority of applications, each edge in a network is associated with a certain cost and an optimal way minimizes the cost while fulfilling a certain property, e.g connecting a start and a destination node. In this paper, we want to extend...

Non-asset based third-party logistics providers manage fleets of leased vehicles for their customers. Due to high leasing costs, minimizing the number of vehicles employed in daily operations is of primary concern to such firms. Consequently, routings that involve fewer vehicles and potentially longer travel times are favored over routings that involve additional vehicles. Constructing routes t...

This demonstration showcases TRIPS, The Rochester Interactive Planning System, an intelligent, collaborative, conversational planning assistant. TRIPS collaborates with the user using both spoken dialogue and graphical displays to solve problems in a transportation logistics domain. In our demonstrations, users are encouraged to sit down and try the system, with only rudimentary guidance from u...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to propose a framework for measuring the degree of public health-sensitivity of patent legislation reformed after the World Trade Organization's TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) Agreement entered into force. METHODS The methodology for establishing and testing the proposed framework involved three main steps:(1) a literature review on TRI...