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Key Note Address at SCIFI-IT'2022

Looking at novel technologies that step-by-step are coming into our lives, we can be impressed by the results, by the possibilities new products offer, and by the way they slowly change our lives as well. These networked technologies are often communicating continuously with other systems and have a certain degree of autonomy for taking decisions. Such “Cyber Physical Systems” (CPS), with sometimes the human in the loop, pose real challenges to industries. Looking from a systems design point of view, such new technologies tend to increase the complexity a designer or an engineer needs to manage. Characterised by multiplicity, by interdependence, by a certain degree of heterogeneity, with continuous interactions, and overall with a product or system behaviour that is difficult to predict, such systems, such systems are also difficult to validate. And, if it concerns safety-critical embedded systems, to get those systems certified. Still, this is a road that is taken, and when looking for example at autonomous vehicles of autonomous drones, such technologies are being considered, so to be able to cover the stakeholder requirements, or more in general the expectations from our society. So, what to do about them… This presentation aims at analysing the challenges and to propose a methodology to support the design process. Starting from a new value-based approach to system design and engineering, research directions are suggested for the coming years, so to be able to prepare the future

Probability theory and public-key cryptography

In this short note, we address a common misconception at the interface of probability theory and public-key cryptography.Comment: 5 page

Village Interventions and Venues for Action (VIVA II).

Key note address presented at: The 30th Anniversary of the Prevention Research Centers at the CDC; February 29, 2016; Atlanta, GA.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/prc-posters-presentations/1026/thumbnail.jp

Overextending Immunity: Arbitral Institutional Liability in the United States, England, and France

This Note examines the relationship between the arbitral institution and the disputing parties. Part I demonstrates the decisions parties face when choosing between traditional litigation and arbitration; it also discusses the differences between an arbitral institution and an ad hoc arbitration, as well as major arbitral institutions\u27 rules regarding their own liability. Part II introduces several nations\u27 approaches to judicial immunity, and how it is applied to arbitrators and arbitral institutions. Part II also weighs differing views on how to characterize the relationship between disputing parties and the arbitral institution. Finally, Part II discusses several key criticisms to the immunity of arbitral institutions. Part III will demonstrate the need for arbitral institutions\u27 contractual liability to disputing parties, and will address several potential criticisms and policy concerns of this approach

Presidential Administration and the Durability of Climate-Consciousness

President Obama took executive actions to address climate change that far exceeded previous Presidents\u27 efforts to pursue policy objectives through presidential administration. This Note does not focus on the Obama Administration\u27s major climate change regulations and international agreements, which have already attracted much attention. Rather, this Note identifies a concerted but inconspicuous effort to embed climate-consciousness throughout the executive branch, elevating climate change as a key decisional criterion for federal departments and agencies