This ar ticle presents an approach to modeling the Choreogr aphy the Web Ser vices based constr aints in or der to achieve a cer tain degree of automation in its defi nition. This propose the defin ition fr om the point of view str uctur al and dynamic compo­nents of the Web Services Choreography, with a view to their subsequent representation in terms of ...

Data captured from the physical world through receptor devices such as wireless sensor networks and RFID readers tend to be low-level, device-specific, inconsistent, and unreliable. Meanwhile, data management and query processing techniques in the digital world rely on understandable, consistent, and complete data. This paper aims to bridge this physical-digital divide by introducing Virtual de...

Monetary intertemporal tradeoffs are a restricted, yet underexplored, domain. In this extended abstract, we provide an integrative analysis of monetary tradeoffs involving single dated outcomes, unmixed sequences, virtues (schedules of investment), and vices (schedules of debt). Results include debt aversion, aversion to vices (which adds to debt aversion) and relative vices, and attraction to ...

What should a virtue theory of argumentation say about fallacious reasoning? If good arguments are virtuous, then fallacies are vicious. Yet fallacies cannot just be identified with vices, since vices are dispositional properties of agents whereas fallacies are types of argument. Rather, if the normativity of good argumentation is explicable in terms of virtues, we should expect the wrongness o...

In this paper, we embark on the complicated discussion about nature of vice in Virtue Ethics through a twofold approach: first, by taking seriously claim that virtues (and certain flavours vices) are genuinely dispositional features possessed agents, and secondly, employing pluralistic attitude borrowed from Battaly’s pluralism (2008). Through these lenses, identify three varieties viciousness:...