FMEC: Overview and Interpretation

Introducing the fair and logical trade project

“…We aim to make scientific advances and to produce usable, and used, open source software, and conceive of the project as an exercise in embodied research, research that produces, in part, usable objects, whose actual use provides testing and validation of the research itself. (See [17] for a brief discussion of the concepts of embodied research.) As such, we are open to, and invite, broader participation.…”

“…The F&LT project grows out of a quite substantial stream of work, stretching back at least to the early 1980s (see [17] for discussion and extensive references). In what follows below, we can sketch only certain elements of the technical approach we are pursuing, and we continue to focus on the motivating factors for our technical approach.…”