Edward Long Fox, B.A., D.M., F.R.C.P. was born in 1832 in Brislington. His father was a doctor, and both his uncle Henry Hawes Fox, and grandfather, Edward Long Fox, had been physicians to the Bristol Royal 'nfirmary. His grandfather founded an asylum in Brislington and was interested in mesmerism, but also achieved fame by having 22 children! With this background you will not be entirely surpr...

Preferences play an important role in our everyday lives. CP-networks, or CP-nets in short, are graphical models for representing conditional qualitative preferences under ceteris paribus (“all else being equal”) assumptions. Despite their intuitive nature and rich representation, dominance testing with CP-nets is computationally complex, even when the CP-nets are restricted to binary-valued pr...

We depart from the conventional quest for ‘Completely Secure Systems’ and ask ‘How can we be more Secure’. We draw heavily from the evolution of the Theory of Justice and the arguments against the institutional approach to Justice. Central to our argument is the identification of redressable insecurity, or weak links. Our contention is that secure systems engineering is not really about buildin...