/library/oar/handle/123456789/88625 2025-12-24T10:00:12Z 2025-12-24T10:00:12Z Ganado, Max Ellul, Joshua Pace, Gordon J. Tendon, Steve Wilson, Bryan /library/oar/handle/123456789/86725 2022-01-11T13:57:57Z 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Mapping the future of legal personality Authors: Ganado, Max; Ellul, Joshua; Pace, Gordon J.; Tendon, Steve; Wilson, Bryan Abstract: This article evaluates how to adapt to disruption by examining the concept of legal personality as applied to DAOs, taking into account the unique features of DAOs, and reimagining how these and other Innovative Technology Arrangements might be regulated more effectively.

2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Ellul, Joshua Pace, Gordon J. /library/oar/handle/123456789/86723 2022-01-11T13:52:26Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Optional monitoring for long-lived transactions Authors: Ellul, Joshua; Pace, Gordon J. Abstract: Runtime monitoring comes at a runtime cost. Overheads induced by monitoring and verification code may be necessary, and yet prohibitive in certain circumstances. When verification is local to a single unit of execution in a system, one can choose whether or not to monitor based on the risk of that individual unit. In this paper, we propose a monitoring and verification approach for a class of long-lived transactionbased systems whose execution can be partitioned into separate subtraces, one for each such transaction, and which are independent of each other from a correctness perspective. We focus on the use of this approach for the monitoring of smart contracts on distributed ledger technologies to show how we can reduce overheads in this manner.

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Ellul, Joshua McCarthy, Stephen Sammut, Trevor Brockdorff, Juanita Scerri, Matthew Pace, Gordon J. /library/oar/handle/123456789/86721 2022-01-11T13:46:46Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: A pragmatic approach to regulating artificial intelligence : a technology regulator's perspective Authors: Ellul, Joshua; McCarthy, Stephen; Sammut, Trevor; Brockdorff, Juanita; Scerri, Matthew; Pace, Gordon J. Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the regulation thereof is a topic that is increasingly being discussed within various fora. Various proposals have been made in literature for defining regulatory bodies and/or related regulation. In this paper, we present a pragmatic approach for providing a technology assurance regulatory framework. To the best knowledge of the authors this work presents the first national AI technology assurance legal and regulatory framework that has been implemented by a national authority empowered through law to do so. In aim of both providing assurances where required and not stifling innovation yet supporting it, herein it is proposed that such regulation should not be mandated for all AI-based systems and that rather it should primarily provide a voluntary framework and only be mandated in sectors and activities where required and as deemed necessary by other authorities for regulated and critical areas.

2021-01-01T00:00:00Z Ellul, Joshua Pace, Gordon J. /library/oar/handle/123456789/86695 2022-01-11T13:16:36Z 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Towards external calls for blockchain and distributed ledger technology Authors: Ellul, Joshua; Pace, Gordon J. Abstract: It is widely accepted that blockchain systems cannot execute calls to external systems or services due to each node having to reach a deterministic state. However, in this paper we show that this belief is preconceived by demonstrating a method that enables blockchain and distributed ledger technologies to perform calls to external systems initiated from the blockchain/DLT itself.

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