Idiosyncratic deals (i-deals for short) are personalized employment arrangements negotiated between individual workers and employers and intended to benefit them both (D. M. Rousseau, 2005). Coworkers' acceptance of another's i-deal can ultimately impact its overall effectiveness for the organization. By using a network approach to the study of work group dynamics, this research addresses the c...

FROM a legal and practical point of view, separation is never easy. On the one hand, there is the perceived need to support struggling minorities who demand self determination as an inalienable right. This impulse is demonstrated by the fundamental role of the 1947 UN Human Rights Sub-commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, associated with the post–Second Wo...

Trust is a key component in any ubiquitous computing system. Users have to trust the devices to be secure, devices have to authenticate the users in order to trust their inputs and devices have to trust each others’ identity and authorisation. A central question in dealing with trust is how to distribute copies of a user’s public key in such a way that other users can verify that it does, indee...

This document describes an architecture for secure service replication in an asynchronous network like the Internet, where a malicious adversary may corrupt some servers and control the network. The underlying protocols for Byzantine agreement and for atomic broadcast rely on recent developments in threshold cryptography. These assumptions are discussed in detail and compared to related work fr...

Current Indonesian municipal law obliges the use of language in transaction activities, Memory Understanding and other agreements. The choice a contract between subject international commercial transactions becomes an essential tool to reach consensus on common intention. This, too, could become triggering factor conflict parties. This study discussed legal implications possibility using foreig...