The Commercial Application of Expert Systems Technology

The relentless growth of the computer industry over more than 30 years has been driven on by a series of major innovations. High-level languages; solid-state logic; compatible machine ranges; disk storage; time-sharing; data communications; virtual machine architectures; the use of LSI and solid-state memory; text processing; personal computers; sucessful packaged software; each advance in its turn has opened up new markets and set off a new spurt of expansion. A vital conclusion of this study is that expert systems promise to be another such major innovation.

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AI Applications to the Law Domain in Japan

Asian Journal of Law and Society ◽

10.1017/als.2020.35 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 471-494

Author(s):

Katsumi NITTA ◽

Ken SATOH

Keyword(s):

Expert Systems ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Language Processing ◽

Text Processing ◽

Research Area ◽

Legal Information ◽

Research Activities ◽

Legal Expert ◽

Legal Domain ◽

Legal Expert Systems

AbstractArtificial intelligence (AI) and law is an AI research area that has a history spanning more than 50 years. In the early stages, several legal-expert systems were developed. Legal-expert systems are tools designed to realize fair judgments in court. In addition to this research, as information and communication technologies and AI technologies have progressed, AI and law has broadened its view from legal-expert systems to legal analytics and, recently, a lot of machine-learning and text-processing techniques have been employed to analyze legal information. The research trends are the same in Japan as well and not only people involved with legal-expert systems, but also those involved with natural language processing as well as lawyers have become interested in AI and law. This report introduces the history of and the research activities on applying AI to the legal domain in Japan.

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Towards an Extensive Statutory Protection of Consumers in Timeshare Agreements: A Comparative Perspective

African Journal of International and Comparative Law ◽

10.3366/ajicl.2021.0353 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 117-137

Author(s):

Yeukai Mupangavanhu

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Consumer Protection ◽

The European Union ◽

Time Sharing ◽

Related Services ◽

Consumer Protection Act ◽

Statutory Protection ◽

Unfair Terms ◽

High Level

Timeshare property interest has become a major business worldwide. The protection of consumers in various timeshare-related contracts has been characterised by challenges due to outdated laws, lack of appropriate legislation as new products are introduced on the market as well as the inclusion of unfair terms. The European Union (EU) adopted the Timeshare Directive 2008/122/EC which governs a broad range of timeshare-related contracts, namely: timeshare, long-term holiday products, and resale and exchange contracts. In comparison, South Africa and Kenya do not have consolidated legislation that govern timeshare-related contracts. In South Africa, timeshare agreements fall under the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008, the Property Time-sharing Control Act 75 of 1993 as well as under common law. In Kenya, the Consumer Protection Act 46 of 2012, which was revised in 2016, governs specific consumer agreements including timeshare contracts. The article compares the position of consumers who enter into timeshare-related services in South Africa, Kenya and the EU. It is argued that the problems faced by consumers who enter into timeshare-related contracts in South Africa and Kenya necessitate legislative protection which should consist of a consolidated statute that specifically regulates such contracts for the attainment of a high level consumer protection.

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Experimental Investigation of Frozen Solid State Drive on Digital Evidence with Static Forensic Methods

Lontar Komputer Jurnal Ilmiah Teknologi Informasi ◽

10.24843/lkjiti.2018.v09.i03.p06 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 169

Author(s):

Imam Riadi ◽

Rusydi Umar ◽

Imam Mahfudl Nasrulloh

Keyword(s):

Solid State ◽

Computer System ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Hard Disk ◽

Data Access ◽

Solid State Drive ◽

Disk Storage ◽

Digital Forensic ◽

Storage Media ◽

Media Storage

The rapid development of computer technology in hardware, is currently developing non-volatile computer storage media Solid State Drive (SSD). SSD technology has a faster data access speed than Hard Disk and is currently starting to replace Hard Disk storage media. Freezing software on computer systems is often carried out by computer technicians, because it can save a computer maintenance costs due to errors, be exposed to computer viruses or malware. This software is used to prevent unwanted changes to the computer system, when the computer is restarted changes that occur in the computer system will not be stored on storage media. When this happens, what should be done by digital forensic investigators. This study discusses experimental forensic investigations on SSD media storage with frozen conditions or in this study said the frozen SSD. Frozen SSD is the condition of the drive that is locked so that there is no change in the computer system. Software used to lock and prevent changes such as Deep Freeze, Shadow Defender, Windows Steady State, and Toolwiz Time Freeze. Forensic research stages using methods NIST. The result shows that from comparative analysis conducted with Deep Freeze the results of the RecoverMyFile gives 76.38% and Autopsy gives 75,27%, while frozen condition with Shadow Defender the results of the RecoverMyFile gives 59.72% and Autopsy gives 74.44%. So the results of this study indicate the drive freezing software has an effect obtained can be an obstacle in the digital forensic process.

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Design of a 65,000-Hp Heavy Duty Two-Shaft Gas Turbine

Volume 1A: General ◽

10.1115/74-gt-17 ◽

1974 ◽

Author(s):

A. J. Orsino ◽

K. E. Gilbert ◽

H. Kojima

Keyword(s):

Power Generation ◽

Gas Turbine ◽

Operating Experience ◽

Commercial Application ◽

Heavy Duty ◽

Heavy Duty Gas Turbine ◽

High Level

This paper describes the design of a 65,000-Hp heavy duty gas turbine for marine service, for land-based mechanical drive applications and for 50 Hz power generation. Operating experience of generically similar units was used to establish the high level of reliability and maintainability incorporated into this unit. This model series gas turbine will be available for commercial application in 1974.

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On the nature of M–CO(lone pair)⋯π(arene) interactions in the solid state of fluorinated oxaphosphirane complexes

CrystEngComm ◽

10.1039/c5ce01331c ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 17 (35) ◽

pp. 6736-6743 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Cristina Murcia-García ◽

Antonio Bauzá ◽

Antonio Frontera ◽

Rainer Streubel

Keyword(s):

Solid State ◽

Dft Calculations ◽

Lone Pair ◽

X Ray ◽

High Level

The X-ray structures of several oxaphosphirane tungsten(0) complexes exhibit interesting intramolecular W–CO(lone pair)ċπ(arene) interactions that have been rationalized by means of high-level DFT calculations and the CSD.

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