Industry is currently pushing towards Service Oriented Architecture where code execution is not limited to the organisational borders but may extend outside of the organisation to which the sources are typically not accessible. In order to protect the interests of the organisation contracts are used which can be seen as a list of obligations, permissions and prohibitions. The composition of dif...

We present a first step towards a framework for defining and manipulating normative documents or contracts described as ContractOriented (C-O) Diagrams. These diagrams provide a visual representation for such texts, giving the possibility to express a signatory’s obligations, permissions and prohibitions, with or without timing constraints, as well as the penalties resulting from the non-fulfil...

Electronic inter-organizational relationships are governed by contracts regulating their interaction. It is necessary to run-time monitor the contracts, as to guarantee their fulfillment. The present work shows how to obtain a run-time monitor for contracts written in CL, a formal specification language which allows to write conditional obligations, permissions and prohibitions over actions. Th...

When I began to study the rules, duties, and prohibitions of sexuality, the interdictions and restrictions associated with it, I was concerned not simply with the acts that were permitted and forbidden but with the feelings represented, the thoughts, the desires one might experience, the drives to seek within the self any hidden feeling, any movement of the soul, any desire disguised under illu...

after determining the status of mawlawī and irshādī and deciding that they are attributes of commands and prohibitions and not attributes of ruling and after giving the opted definition and its advantage over other definitions, this article has dealt with the important discussion of the methodology and the measurements for distinguishing the mawlawī from the irshādī commands and prohibitions. a...

The paper studies the forms of interaction between criminal law and moral ethical prescriptions as two systems that regulate behavior subjects public relations. study made it possible to establish at present there are five main implementation categories in Russian Federation. First, norms morality embodied through institution principles law. Analyzing principle justice, author describes detail ...

In many Western jurisdictions cannabis, unlike most other psychoactive drugs, cannot be prescribed to patients even in cases where medical professionals believe that it would ease the patient's pain or anxiety. The reasons for this prohibition are mostly ideological, although medical and moral arguments have been formulated to support it. In this paper, it is argued that freedom, properly under...

With the  t in place, the business of buying and selling reproductive tissues and services should have come to a screeching halt in Canada, especially given the penalties for breaking the law. The penalties include a ne of up to $500 000, imprisonment for up to 10 years, or both. This has not been the case, however. The legal prohibitions have largely been seen as nothing more than “paper ...

We introduce a new formal approach to social networks in order to distinguish four ways in which coalitions change. First, the agents in the network change. Second, dependencies among the agents change, for example due to addition or removal of powers and goals of the agents. Third, norms can introduce normative dependencies for obligations and prohibitions. Fourth, coalitions can change due to...

Attorneys Jacobs and Goodman review the prohibitions against fee-splitting under Florida law and argue that Florida and other states need a clear statutory definition of prohibited activities. In addition, the authors argue that the Florida Board of Medicine has applied the prohibition against fee-splitting arbitrarily and in contrast to legal precedent set by the Second District Court of Appea...