In dynamic change environments the concept of the psychological contracts is tested as organisations pursue more transactional relationships with their employees and as employees are encouraged to pursue protean careers. With such increased emphasis on self-serving personal and organisational strategies, one may question whether a ‘psychological contract’ continues to serve a useful purpose in ...

Contract dispute resolution has become an important aspect in the negotiating process. Objective and effective contract dispute resolution can reduce the high transaction cost and time in the negotiation process. This paper proposes a principle-based contract dispute negotiation system based on expert system and knowledge resource space model (KRSM). The system provides an accurate and objectiv...

Few existing approaches towards architectural evolution deal with unanticipated evolution. This is an important restriction, since a lot of architectural changes are very di cult to anticipate. The reuse contract formalism has been designed speci cally to deal with unanticipated software evolution, and has already proven its practical use in di erent domains. We claim that the reuse contract ap...

This note derives the optimal compensation contract with subjective evaluation when the principal and agent may not agree regarding performance. The optimal contract takes the form of a bonus payment whenever the principal believes performance is acceptable, but with the payment of a penalty by the principal whenever the agent disagrees with a negative evaluation by the principal. The efficienc...

Although contract reparations have been extensively studied in the context of deontic logics, there is not much literature using reparations in automatabased deontic approaches. Contract automata is a recent approach to modelling the notion of contract-based interaction between different parties using synchronous composition. However, it lacks the notion of reparations for contract violations. ...

This Article draws attention to a conceptual point that has been overlooked in recent discussions about the theoretical foundations of contract law. I argue that, rather than enforcing the obligations of promises, contract law concerns complaints against promissory wrongs. This conceptual distinction is easy to miss. If one assumes that complaints arise whenever an obligation has been violated,...

A PARTICULARLY useful work for the educable mentally defective boy is being done at the Besford Court Catholic Home, Worcestershire, under the administration of Monsignor Newsome. The home is intended for the high-grade "moron," who requires not only< special teaching and training, but also preliminary, concurrent and continuous hospital treatment. For such a child, as the Annual Report points ...

We present the rst algorithm for reconstructing the types and e ects of expressions in the presence of rst class procedures in a polymorphic typed language. E ects are static descriptions of the dynamic behavior of expressions. Just as a type describes what an expression computes, an effect describes how an expression computes. Types are more complicated to reconstruct in the presence of e ects...

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