Ontologies are becoming increasingly common in the World Wide Web as the building block for a future Semantic Web. In this Web, ontologies will be responsible for making the semantics of pages and applications explicit, thus allowing electronic agents to process and integrate resources automatically. With the widespread, distributed use of ontologies, different parties will inevitably develop o...

The Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies is pleased to publish this 15th volume of the Cato Supreme Court Review, an annual critique of the Court’s most important decisions from the term just ended plus a look at the term ahead—all from a classical liberal, Madisonian perspective, grounded in the nation’s first principles, liberty through limited government. We release this volume...

Experiments described here demonstrate a role that intermediate legal concepts play in predicting the decisions of new cases. The experiments compare variations of each of an Issue-Based Prediction algorithm (IBP) and a CATO prediction algorithm in which the use of legal concepts are ablated in various ways. The results confirm those legal philosophical theories that assert that intermediate co...

wonder whether adopting a rimland containment strategy would likely turn those fears into a self-fulfilling prophecy. As George Kennan, the so-called father of containment, wrote in 1947, “It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound ev...

During the 1950s the informal settlements of Cato Manor housed a population of approximately 150 000 people. Following the promulgation of the Group Areas Act in 1955, the entire population was resettled to formal townships on the metropolitan fringe. Despite being one of the most accessible areas in the Durban metropolitan region, only five kms from the city centre, this 2000 ha site remained ...

The summation formula within Pascal triangle resulting in the Fi-bonacci sequence is extended to the q-binomial coefficients q-Gaussian triangles [1, 2]. 1 Pisa historical remark The Fibonacci sequence origin is attributed and referred to the first edition (lost) of " Fiber abaci " (1202) by Leonardo Fibonacci [Pisano] (see second edition from 1228 reproduced as Il Liber Abaci di Leonardo Pisan...