La procédure pénale est le théâtre de réformes législatives incessantes qui aboutissent à une multiplication sans précédent des régimes spécifiques à certaines catégories de délinquants ou d'infractions. Il en résulte un éclatement du système procédural pénal qui accroît la complexité de la matière et fait perdre de vue le sens même de l'adaptation des règles. L'analyse de la procédure pénale sous l'angle de la dialectique du droit commun et du droit spécial permet de prendre conscience de l'importance qu'il convient d'attacher, d'une part, à la distinction entre un régime applicable à toutes les affaires pénales et des régimes applicables à certaines d'entre elles, d'autre part, à la gestion des rapports entre ces différents types de régimes. Mise à l'épreuve de la procédure pénale, la distinction entre droit commun et droit spécial souffre d'une méconnaissance profonde en l'état actuel du droit. Celle-ci est traduite par la difficulté à situer les frontières du droit commun et du droit spécial, mais surtout attestée par la marginalisation progressive du droit commun face à l'expansion continue du droit spécial. La reconnaissance de la distinction entre droit commun et droit spécial n'en apparaît que plus nécessaire tant elle est, en réalité, consubstantielle à l'organisation de la procédure pénale. Mise à l'épreuve des rapports entre droit commun et droit spécial, la procédure pénale souffre, quant à elle, du désordre qui règne en ce domaine. Le désintérêt du législateur pour les rapports entre procédure pénale de droit commun et procédures pénales spéciales impose, dès lors, de chercher les moyens propres à assurer la maîtrise des relations entre ces ensembles. / Incessant legislative reforms in criminal procedural law produce an astonishing multiplication of specific procedures for certain categories of offenders or offences. Criminal procedural system is torn apart, increasing the complexity of law and clouding the very meaning of rules' adaptation. The dialectic of ordinary and special rules of law casts a new light on the evolution of criminal procedural law. On the one hand it is important to make a distinction between a common procedural framework that is applicable to every criminal case and specific procedures only applicable to some of them. On the other hand it becomes vital to manage the connections between these two types of law. Regarding the first point, there is a profound misunderstanding of the distinction in contemporary law. Indeed, it is difficult to determinate the frontiers of ordinary and special rules of criminal procedural law. Moreover, it is obviously attested by a progressive marginalization of ordinary criminal procedure facing an ever-expansion of special criminal procedures. A new understanding of the distinction appears even more necessary because the distinction between ordinary and special rules of law is essential to organize the criminal procedural system. Regarding the second point, criminal procedural law suffers from the resulting disorder from the mismanagement of the connections between ordinary and special rules. While the lawmakers seem not to pay much attention, the actual disorder cries out for appropriate means to control the connections between ordinary criminal procedure and special criminal procedures.

In this paper we examine contractual and non-contractual obligations in situations involving a conflict of law. The special emphasis is given to overriding mandatory rules, the importance and impacts of these rules of law on civil and commercial relations with international element. This thesis is composed of four parts and each of them is subdivided into further sections and paragraphs. In the first part, we introduce the general theory as theoretical base of the subject and we define the key terms. The question concerning the role of Czech courts in the application of foreign law is also mentioned. Subsequently, we analyze national Czech legislation and we focus on the relevant provisions contained in the draft of new Private International Law Act. By becoming Member State of the European Union in 2004, Czech Republic undertook to accede to the 1980 Rome Convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations. Second chapter is dedicated to this international treaty which has clarified the concept of "mandatory rules" but has also given rise to some qualification problems. We discuss the relationship between overriding mandatory rules and protective mandatory rules (particularly rules of consumer and labour law) and present the main approaches to this problem. Rome I and Rome II regulations...

This dissertation is divided into four essays, each of them having its own structure and methodological framework. Although each of the essays making the chapters of the thesis is self-contained, their topics are very closely related. Consequently, the reader will be able to follow the thesis in its unity. Essay I is a selective survey of the extensive, mostly theoretic, literature dealing with monetary policy rules. We aim at contextualization of the monetary policy rules in the existing monetary economics literature. We explain the logic, the inspiration and the history of the rules for the monetary policy conduct. We distinguish between instrument rules and targeting rules as two basic categories. Finally, we resume specific issues related to policy rules for small open economies. Essay II studies the logic of short-term interest rate setting pursued by 15 EU countries before and after the launch of the EMU. We employ econometric estimation of the augmented Taylor rule (TR) for individual 15 EU countries and the Euro area. Although a vast empirical evidence is available for the major economies like the US, the UK or Germany, there is an important gap in our understanding of the factors behind the short-term interest rate dynamics in smaller economies. We find that in the period preceding the euro adoption, the TR is a poor representation of monetary policy setting in most EU countries and that many central banks considered decisions made by dominant economies rather than their domestic macroeconomic developments. The analysis of monetary policy rule of the ECB features additional problems related to the heterogeneity of the EMU. We argue that results based on Euro-area aggregated series, commonly presented in empirical studies, are subject to diverse econometric problems. We provide some evidence that the ECB is concerned also with national information and propose quasi-panel analysis as a viable framework. Essay III explores the relation between the existing monetary policy and domestic price stability in small open emerging economies, in particular the 12 EU new member states. This work has three principal objectives. First, it aims at revealing the logic of interest rate setting pursued by monetary authority of each country. The linear specification of the Taylor rule, applied already in the Essay II, is accompanied by an extensive analysis of nonlinearities in monetary policy rules and the inference on their possible sources. We find that the official monetary policy is sometimes inconsistent with the empirical evidence on the short term interest rate setting. The second objective consists in revealing the determinants of the inflation process. We have found that inflation rates are driven not only by backward persistency but also by the forward-looking component. Third, we employ analysis of the conditional inflation variance so as to give account on the viability of the existing monetary policy setting for price stability. We conclude that the policy of inflation targeting seems to be preferable to exchange rate peg because it allows decreasing not only inflation rate but also its conditional variance. Essay IV seeks to shed light on inflation dynamics of four CEEC (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) and test when the predominant model of inflation, the New Keynesian Philips Curve (NKPC), is consistent with the data of these countries. According to the microfounded NKPC, the current inflation is related to inflation expectations and the real marginal cost. The empirical validity of this model has recently become a subject of major controversy in the monetary economics. Although we find some favorable evidence for the NKPC, it seems to be too restrictive model for small open economies. In particular, the failure of the NKPC to explain the inflation dynamics of these countries may be related to the assumption that inflation is related to forward-looking price setting of domestic monopolist firms while our evidence suggests that prices in CEEC have an important backward-looking component and the inflation is significantly driven by external factors like the exchange rate and the foreign inflation rate.

[pt] Este trabalho apresenta a proposta de um novo método para a extração de regras fuzzy de máquinas de vetor suporte (SVMs) treinadas para problemas de classificação. SVMs são sistemas de aprendizado baseados na teoria estatística do aprendizado e apresentam boa habilidade de generalização em conjuntos de dados reais. Estes sistemas obtiveram sucesso em vários tipos de problemas. Entretanto, as SVMs, da mesma forma que redes neurais (RN), geram um modelo caixa preta, isto é, um modelo que não explica o processo pelo qual sua saída é obtida. Alguns métodos propostos para reduzir ou eliminar essa limitação já foram desenvolvidos para o caso de classificação binária, embora sejam restritos à extração de regras simbólicas, isto é, contêm funções ou intervalos nos antecedentes das regras. No entanto, a interpretabilidade de regras simbólicas ainda é reduzida. Deste modo, propõe-se, neste trabalho, uma técnica para a extração de regras fuzzy de SVMs treinadas, com o objetivo de aumentar a interpretabilidade do conhecimento gerado. Além disso, o modelo proposto foi desenvolvido para classificação em múltiplas classes, o que ainda não havia sido abordado até agora. As regras fuzzy obtidas são do tipo se x1 pertence ao conjunto fuzzy C1, x2 pertence ao conjunto fuzzy C2,..., xn pertence ao conjunto fuzzy Cn, então o ponto x = (x1,...,xn) é da classe A. Para testar o modelo foram realizados estudos de caso detalhados com quatro bancos de dados: Íris, Wine, Bupa Liver Disorders e Winconsin Breast Cancer. A cobertura das regras resultantes da aplicação desse modelo nos testes realizados mostrou-se muito boa, atingindo 100% no caso da Íris. Após a geração das regras, foi feita uma avaliação das mesmas, usando dois critérios, a abrangência e a acurácia fuzzy. Além dos testes acima mencionados foi comparado o desempenho dos métodos de classificação em múltiplas classes usados no trabalho. / [en] This text proposes a new method for fuzzy rule extraction from support vector machines (SVMs) trained to solve classification problems. SVMs are learning systems based on statistical learning theory and present good ability of generalization in real data base sets. These systems have been successfully applied to a wide variety of application. However SVMs, as well as neural networks, generates a black box model, i.e., a model which does not explain the process used in order to obtain its result. Some considered methods to reduce this limitation already has been proposed for the binary classification case, although they are restricted to symbolic rules extraction, and they have, in their antecedents, functions or intervals. However, the interpretability of the symbolic generated rules is small. Hence, to increase the linguistic interpretability of the generating rules, we propose a new technique for extracting fuzzy rules of a trained SVM. Moreover, the proposed model was developed for classification in multiple classes, which was not introduced till now. Fuzzy rules obtained are presented in the format if x1 belongs to the fuzzy set C1, x2 belongs to the fuzzy set C2 , … , xn belongs to the fuzzy set Cn , then the point x=(x1, x2, …xn) belongs to class A. For testing this new model, we performed detailed researches on four data bases: Iris, Wine, Bupa Liver Disorders and Wisconsin Breast Cancer. The rules´ coverage resultant of the application of this method was quite good, reaching 100% in Iris case. After the rules generation, its evaluation was performed using two criteria: coverage and accuracy. Besides the testing above, the performance of the methods for multi-class SVM described in this work was evaluated.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:25:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Camila Castanhato.pdf: 696072 bytes, checksum: bdd2c8ed35e6545cffb5dc0c1b5b0e2e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-12-20 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Constitutionality control is maybe the most important subject for the Constitutional Law, as it is the mechanism that guarantees the existence of a true State of Right. The objective of this dissertation is to study the historical process that led to the creation of rule control mechanisms inside the law systems formally structured. In the first part, the birth of the control of rules system since Classic Antiquity is analised, and, in the second part, the evolution of the constitutionality control of rules in Brazilian constitutions is studied. An approach to the subject of rules in ancient Greece and Rome and in modern national states specially in England, in the United States, in France and in Austria is made, as well as the evolution in control of rules since our first Imperial Constitution of 1824 passing by all the others, i.e. Republican Constitution of 1891, 1934, 1937, 1946 and of 1967/1969 until the analysis of how the constitutionality control of laws in Brazilian present time is processed, supported by the Constitution of 1988 / O controle de constitucionalidade talvez seja o tema mais importante para o Direito Constitucional, pois é o mecanismo capaz de garantir a existência de um verdadeiro Estado de Direito. Esta dissertação tem por objetivo o estudo do processo histórico que levou à criação do mecanismo de controle das normas dentro de sistemas jurídicos formalmente estruturados. Numa primeira parte, analisa-se a formação do sistema de controle de normas desde a Antiguidade Clássica e, na segunda, estuda-se a evolução do controle de constitucionalidade das normas nas constituições brasileiras. Aborda-se a questão das normas na Grécia, em Roma e nos Estados Nacionais modernos, sobretudo na Inglaterra, nos Estados Unidos, na França e na Áustria, bem como a evolução no controle das normas desde a nossa primeira Constituição Imperial, de 1824, passando por todas as demais Constituição Republicana de 1891, Constituição de 1934, Constituição de 1937, Constituição de 1946, Constituição de 1967/69 , até finalmente fazer-se a análise de como se processa o controle de constitucionalidade das leis na atualidade brasileira, ou seja, sob a égide da Constituição de 1988

O presente estudo examina os limites à requalificação dos negócios jurídicos no Brasil, seja pelas autoridades fiscais seja pelo legislador tributário (infraconstitucional) com a criação de regras específicas e gerais para o controle da elusão fiscal. Para tanto, considera-se a elusão fiscal como figura autônoma, buscando-se identificar os critérios para a delimitação desta zona cinzenta existente entre a conduta contra legem (evasão) e aquela que não contraria, quer direta quer indiretamente, o ordenamento (elisão), e que corresponde à prática de atos aparentemente lícitos mas que ferem indiretamente o ordenamento. A identificação de tais critérios coloca em relevo a importância da causa dos negócios jurídicos e a noção de ilicitude atípica que qualifica os atos e negócios aparentemente lícitos porém desprovidos de causa, engendrados exclusivamente com vistas à economia de tributos. Analisa-se então como o ordenamento positivo brasileiro trata esta categoria de atos e negócios, buscando delimitar o que a administração fiscal está autorizada a fazer no combate à elusão fiscal. Em seguida, passa-se ao exame do controle da elusão fiscal realizado pela via legislativa, analisando-se os limites ao estabelecimento de regras específicas de prevenção ou de correção da elusão baseadas em ficções e presunções, as regras antielusivas constantes de convenções internacionais firmadas pelo Brasil, bem como a experiência estrangeira no estabelecimento de regras gerais antielusivas. Ao final, abordamos o conteúdo da regra geral antielusiva brasileira. / This research examines the limits applicable to the reclassification of activities by the Brazilian tax authorities or the Brazilian tax legislator (i.e., ordinary law) by means of specific and general anti-avoidance rules. For this purpose, we consider tax avoidance as an autonomous concept, which consists of those transactions that appear legitimate but are indirectly against rules, and we attempt to identify the criteria for delimitation of the gray area between an activity that represents a direct violation of Law tax evasion and one which does not infringe the law, either directly or indirectly valid tax planning. The identification of such criteria emphasizes the importance of the purpose behind a legal transaction and the idea of an illegality which is not expressly defined by law applicable to those acts and transactions that, despite appearing legitimate, have no substance and are exclusively structured for the purpose of saving taxes. We then analyze how Brazilian legislation treats such activities and transactions in order to identify the limits to which tax avoidance schemes can be regulated by Brazils tax authorities. Next, we examine how Brazilian tax legislation deals with tax avoidance, and analyze the limits on the establishment of specific anti-avoidance rules based upon fictions and presumptions, of anti-avoidance rules found in double tax treaties concluded by Brazil, and general anti-avoidance rules based upon other countries practices. Finally, we address the substance of the general anti-avoidance rule under the Brazilian tax system.

A descoberta de Regras de Associação é uma tarefa de mineração de dados que procura identificar padrões em datasets, permitindo, após a sua interpretação, identificar conhecimento específico acerca do problema em análise. A Mineração de Regras de Associação pode ser usada como uma metodologia para descobrir hipóteses ou teorias candidatas em um domínio do conhecimento. No entanto, o processo de Mineração de Regras de Associação gera um grande número de regras superando a capacidade de exploração do usuário. Esse fato pode tornar o processo de análise inviável, além de afetar negativamente o resultado de alguns algoritmos de extração de conhecimento. Diante disso, várias abordagens foram propostas para guiar o usuário na exploração das Regras de Associação descobertas, em especial com a utilização de estruturas de Rede, que permitem analisar as relações existentes entre as regras. Neste contexto, esse trabalho foi motivado pelo potencial uso de Redes na otimização da identificação do conhecimento, em processos de Mineração de Regras de Associação, formulando abordagens explicáveis. Outra motivação surge da lacuna referente ao uso de Redes em tarefas multialvo inerente de várias aplicações do mundo real. O desenvolvimento deste trabalho teve o intento de avançar as pesquisas da área de Mineração de Regras de Associação com o uso de Redes em relação a métodos de geração de hipóteses validáveis com um ou dois itens objetivo, tanto em relação à interpretabilidade como na expressividade das representações construídas. Um Mapeamento Sistemático da literatura da área foi realizado com a finalidade de conhecer o estado da arte sobre como o uso das Redes pode auxiliar nos processos de Mineração de Regras de Associação. Neste trabalho é proposto e desenvolvido um método de seleção e avaliação das medidas de suporte e confiança mínimos referentes a extração de Regras de Associação com o uso de Medidas de Centralidade de Redes, cuja contribuição principal foi a elaboração de um critério objetivo para extração de Regras de Associação. Foram também propostas, desenvolvidas e validadas duas novas Redes, as Redes de Regras de Associação Filtradas (Filtered-ARNs) e as Redes de Regras de Associação Multialvo (MTARNs) que promoveram um impacto positivo na identificação do conhecimento por meio da comprovação matemática da influência entre os elementos de uma Regra de Associação e ampliaram a capacidade de extração do conhecimento em estudos de aplicações multialvo. / The discovery of Association Rules is a data mining task that seeks to identify patterns in datasets, allowing, after its interpretation, to determine specific knowledge about the problem under analysis. Association Rules Mining can be used as a methodology for discovering hypotheses or candidate theories in a knowledge domain. However, the Association Rules Mining process generates a large number of rules that exceed the users ability to exploit. This fact may make the analysis process impracticable, as well as negatively affect the outcome of some knowledge extraction algorithms. Therefore, several approaches were proposed to guide the user in the exploration of the discovered Association Rules, especially with the use of Network structures, which allow to analyze the relations between the rules. In this context, this work was motivated by the potential use of Networks in the optimization of knowledge identification, in Association Rules Mining processes, formulating explanable approaches. Another motivation arises from the gap regarding the use of Networks in multi-target tasks inherent to several real-world applications. The development of this work was intended to advance the research of the Association Rules Mining with the use of Networks with methods of generating validate hypotheses with one or two target items, both about the interpretability and in the expressiveness of representations built. A Systematic Mapping of the literature of the area was carried out with the purpose of knowing the state of the art on how the use of the Networks can help in the Mining processes of Association Rules. In this work, a method of selection and evaluation of the minimum support and trust measures regarding the extraction of Association Rules with the use of Network Centralization Measures was proposed and developed, whose main contribution was the elaboration of an objective criterion for extraction of Association Rules. Two new networks were also introduced, developed and validated, the Filtered Association Rules Networks (Filtered-ARNs) and the Multi-Target Association Rules Networks (MTARNs) that promoted a positive impact on the identification of knowledge through mathematical proof of the influence between the elements of an Association Rule and extended the capacity of knowledge extraction in studies of multi-target applications.

Šiame darbe nagrinėjama veiklos taisyklių sąvoka, jų klasifikacijos būdai bei panaudojimo galimybės skirtingiems poreikiams realizuoti. Kaip veiklos taisyklės yra specifikuojamos ir kokiais būdais galima jomis manipuliuoti. Pagrindinis šio darbo tikslas ištirti taisyklių valdymo įrankį (Blaze Advisor), išnagrinėti veiklos taisyklių specifikavimo principus, naudojant objektiškai orientuotą SRL kalbą bei jų panaudojimo galimybes remiantis vidiniais įrankio komponentais, skirtais veiklos taisyklių realizacijai. Atlikus išsamią analizę pastebėta, jog esti trūkumų, kurie neleidžia efektyviai modeliuoti veiklos taisykles bei apriboja įmonių atstovų priėjimą prie jų. Siekiant pašalinti trūkumus siūloma metodika, kuri suteiktų lankstesnį būdą veiklos taisyklėms kurti bei valdyti. Kuri užtikrintų galimybę veiklos atstovams patiems dalyvauti realizavimo ir kūrimo etape be IT specialisto betarpiškos pagalbos. Realizuojant sistemą siūlomu metodu, suteikiama galimybė veiklos atstovams valdyti veiklos procesus, keičiant veiklos taisyklių leistinas dalis, taip pakeičiant visą programos ir jos vykdymo logiką bei priimamus sprendimus. Galima lengvai veiklos procesus pritaikyti prie besikeičiančių sąlygų, kurios vienaip ar kitaip įtakoja įmonės veiklą, sumažinant įmonės kaštus. / In this work there is analyzed business rules` conception, ways of their classification and possibilities to use them in order to realize different needs, how business rules are specified and how you can manipulate them. The main aim of this work is to explore rules Blaze Advisor, to analyze business rules specification principles, by using objectively oriented SRL language and opportunities to use them on the ground of inner advisor components designed for business rules realization. After the detailed analysis it was noticed that there are defects, which don`t let effectively model business rules and narrow the access enterprises representatives to them, trying to eliminate the defects by suggested methods, which would present a more flexible way to create business rules and guide, which would ensure the possibility for business representatives themselves to participate in the realization and creation stage without IT specialists immediate help. Realizing the system by the suggested method, there is a possibility for business representatives to guide business processes, by changing business rules` permissible parts, in this way all the program`s and its realization logic and acceptable decisions. It`s easy to conform business processes to the changeable conditions, which in one or another way make influence to the enterprise`s activity by reducing the enterprise`s costs.

At the international level, standards and recommended practices adopted by the ICAO have settled the general framework followed by States in the provision of ATC services. However, as those international instruments have no binding effect, liability of air traffic controllers is governed by national regulations. Therefore, if in both the United States and France the liability regime is based on fault, nevertheless the nature of the fault and the one of the duties of air traffic controllers, as determined by the courts of each States, differ. This lack of uniformity is also obvious regarding the comparison between controllers' and pilots' liabilities. To mitigate the consequences of the deficiency of harmonisation, taking into account technical improvements inherent to the field of ATC and, broadly, to air navigation, two solutions have been suggested. The first one, Free flight, is still under study whereby the second one, privatisation, has already been successfully implemented in several countries and, while being strongly considered by the French government, has by now been initiated by the American one. However, we will have no option but to ascertain that such solutions will not solve the problem pertaining to disparities of regulations and holding of the courts on the matter of air traffic controllers' liability.

Thesis (PhD) -- Macquarie University, Division of Information and Communication Sciences, Department of Computing, 2007. / "Submitted January 27 2007, revised July 27 2007". / Bibliography: p. 281-304. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / xiv, 487 p., bound ill. (some col.)