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... meaning and importance as individual interaction with digital technologies. This opens for the possibility that the most interesting point of reference for design in some cases might be this social entity rather than the individual. Design basically deals with creating meaningful artifacts and “mean ...
... meaning and importance as individual interaction with digital technologies. This opens for the possibility that the most interesting point of reference for design in some cases might be this social entity rather than the individual. Design basically deals with creating meaningful artifacts and “mean ...
AP Psychology Syllabus
... 6. Discuss how the relative stability of our temperament illustrates the influence of heredity on development. 7. Discuss heritability’s application to individuals and groups, and explain what we mean when we say genes are self-regulating. 8. Give an example of a genetically influenced trait that ca ...
... 6. Discuss how the relative stability of our temperament illustrates the influence of heredity on development. 7. Discuss heritability’s application to individuals and groups, and explain what we mean when we say genes are self-regulating. 8. Give an example of a genetically influenced trait that ca ...
Pardis, a Fuzzy Extension to Multi agent Simulation Systems
... The inference in such a system is an inference with words, and the knowledge is represented and stored as qualitative data, and not quantities. In the recent years, Zadeh has introduced a new concept that is called “Computing with Words” (CW) [4]. The main idea behind this concept, which he believes ...
... The inference in such a system is an inference with words, and the knowledge is represented and stored as qualitative data, and not quantities. In the recent years, Zadeh has introduced a new concept that is called “Computing with Words” (CW) [4]. The main idea behind this concept, which he believes ...
when does repository kms use lift performance?
... examining the value of KMS use based on the KM literature. We demonstrate how IT value research can be extended to study the contingent impact of an IT artifact by leveraging the theoretical base on the artifact as well as the specific business context in which the system is used. We also find a neg ...
... examining the value of KMS use based on the KM literature. We demonstrate how IT value research can be extended to study the contingent impact of an IT artifact by leveraging the theoretical base on the artifact as well as the specific business context in which the system is used. We also find a neg ...
The Genesis of Shame
... and consequently elicits social censure, which can be echoed by selfcensure on the part of its object. But assessments of this kind would have been unknown in the pre-social conditions of Eden. Adam and Eve’s shame might still have reflected an observer’sassessment if they thought of themselves as b ...
... and consequently elicits social censure, which can be echoed by selfcensure on the part of its object. But assessments of this kind would have been unknown in the pre-social conditions of Eden. Adam and Eve’s shame might still have reflected an observer’sassessment if they thought of themselves as b ...
Discourse in Action: Introducing mediated discourse analysis
... Wertsch and his colleagues call their perspective ‘the sociocultural approach to mind’ (see also Bruner, 1990; Cole, 1990; Lantolf, 2000). It emphasizes that all actions are mediated through ‘cultural tools’ (Wertsch, 1998): objects, technologies, practices, identities, social institutions, communit ...
... Wertsch and his colleagues call their perspective ‘the sociocultural approach to mind’ (see also Bruner, 1990; Cole, 1990; Lantolf, 2000). It emphasizes that all actions are mediated through ‘cultural tools’ (Wertsch, 1998): objects, technologies, practices, identities, social institutions, communit ...
Intelligent Distributed Agent Based Architecture
... This thesis presents work done on the development of a multi-agent system architecture that facilitates coordination and a novel social networks based approach to coordination. The field of multi-agent system research is undergoing tremendous expansion and it would be impossible to address all the i ...
... This thesis presents work done on the development of a multi-agent system architecture that facilitates coordination and a novel social networks based approach to coordination. The field of multi-agent system research is undergoing tremendous expansion and it would be impossible to address all the i ...
A Review on Expert System and its Applications in Civil Engineering
... stores a collection of information and rules which describes all the data about the problem domain. Expert system provides high quality experience, domain specific information; apply heuristics, forward or backward reasoning, uncertainty and explanation capability. For information representation tec ...
... stores a collection of information and rules which describes all the data about the problem domain. Expert system provides high quality experience, domain specific information; apply heuristics, forward or backward reasoning, uncertainty and explanation capability. For information representation tec ...
Ineffable, Tacit, Explicable and Explicit
... a pattern of vibrations. But in order to understand that spoken sentence the person also must have language, i.e., the ability to interpret the string into meanings. Strings of signs must be interpreted in order to be language. As Collins notes, “This book in itself contains strings, not language; t ...
... a pattern of vibrations. But in order to understand that spoken sentence the person also must have language, i.e., the ability to interpret the string into meanings. Strings of signs must be interpreted in order to be language. As Collins notes, “This book in itself contains strings, not language; t ...
Bringing Identity Theory into Environmental Sociology*
... to understand people’s behavior. Indeed, this is an argument that has been leveled against the theory of reasoned action more generally (Eagly and Chaiken 1993). One extension has been to include one’s personal morality/values in the attitudebehavior model (Beck and Ajzen 1991; Eagly and Chaiken 199 ...
... to understand people’s behavior. Indeed, this is an argument that has been leveled against the theory of reasoned action more generally (Eagly and Chaiken 1993). One extension has been to include one’s personal morality/values in the attitudebehavior model (Beck and Ajzen 1991; Eagly and Chaiken 199 ...
Fitness “kinematics”: biological function, altruism, and organism
... fowl (Zuk et al., 1990). Carotenoids usually must be acquired from foods, but carotenoid-rich foods are rare in some environments (Olson and Owens, 1998). It’s natural to think that when a young jungle fowl experiencing a carotenoid shortage encounters a ready source of these substances, the animal’ ...
... fowl (Zuk et al., 1990). Carotenoids usually must be acquired from foods, but carotenoid-rich foods are rare in some environments (Olson and Owens, 1998). It’s natural to think that when a young jungle fowl experiencing a carotenoid shortage encounters a ready source of these substances, the animal’ ...
Reorganisation and Self-organisation in Multi
... by themselves their attachment to other parts as to optimise a trajectory function, which may change at runtime, without being aware of the global organisation (i.e. the whole mechanism configuration). The same kind of adaptation is also found in collective robotics [10] where the spatial position o ...
... by themselves their attachment to other parts as to optimise a trajectory function, which may change at runtime, without being aware of the global organisation (i.e. the whole mechanism configuration). The same kind of adaptation is also found in collective robotics [10] where the spatial position o ...
Richard Thompson
... physics. Reed was (and is) remarkable---the course work was intense, and we read several full volumes a week in the humanities course. For the first time I really had to work at my studies. In my sophomore year in physics, I attempted to repeat Milliken's measurement of the charge on the electron an ...
... physics. Reed was (and is) remarkable---the course work was intense, and we read several full volumes a week in the humanities course. For the first time I really had to work at my studies. In my sophomore year in physics, I attempted to repeat Milliken's measurement of the charge on the electron an ...
Meerkat Manor: An approach to simulated, genetic co
... We decided to represent the hawk sensor as its own group of input neurons, just like the previously mentioned food sensors. Thus, each input neuron is fully-connected in a feed-forward manner to our output neurons, and no hidden layer is used. In fact, by the time we decided on this approach, we wer ...
... We decided to represent the hawk sensor as its own group of input neurons, just like the previously mentioned food sensors. Thus, each input neuron is fully-connected in a feed-forward manner to our output neurons, and no hidden layer is used. In fact, by the time we decided on this approach, we wer ...
Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents
... that are in the organism by “default”, such as breathing, heart beating, metabolizing, etc. They can be seen as implicit, internal behaviours, that are not noticed by an observer because they are always there. They do not require to be modelled, because they are “obvious1”. Reflex behaviours would b ...
... that are in the organism by “default”, such as breathing, heart beating, metabolizing, etc. They can be seen as implicit, internal behaviours, that are not noticed by an observer because they are always there. They do not require to be modelled, because they are “obvious1”. Reflex behaviours would b ...
Connectionism and Information Processing Abstractions
... relevant phenomena. In contrast to Cartesian theories, most of the concrete work deals with perceptual and motor phenomena, but the framework is meant to cover complex cognitive phenomena as well. Eliminative materialism in philosophy, Gibsonian theories in psychology, and connectionism in psycholog ...
... relevant phenomena. In contrast to Cartesian theories, most of the concrete work deals with perceptual and motor phenomena, but the framework is meant to cover complex cognitive phenomena as well. Eliminative materialism in philosophy, Gibsonian theories in psychology, and connectionism in psycholog ...
Social Movements and Environmentalism, a Luhmannian
... understand the long-term mechanisms through which it changes and the way it relates to its environment. Moving from the general to the specific, in not so many words, the interest of this dissertation is social movements as promoters of change in society with a focus on the environmental movement as ...
... understand the long-term mechanisms through which it changes and the way it relates to its environment. Moving from the general to the specific, in not so many words, the interest of this dissertation is social movements as promoters of change in society with a focus on the environmental movement as ...
Realism, Philosophy and Social Science
... social sciences and which sees the goal of social science to be explanation taking the form of propositions concerning cause/effect relations. The term hermeneutics is associated with an anti-naturalism which claims a radical discontinuity between human and non-human objects of knowledge and which s ...
... social sciences and which sees the goal of social science to be explanation taking the form of propositions concerning cause/effect relations. The term hermeneutics is associated with an anti-naturalism which claims a radical discontinuity between human and non-human objects of knowledge and which s ...
When is it Selectively Advantageous to Have True Beliefs
... developed models about when an organism should be flexible and pay attention to information in its environment, and when it should be inflexible and follow a certain strategy regardless of the information available in the environment. These models answer the question of when it pays an organism to b ...
... developed models about when an organism should be flexible and pay attention to information in its environment, and when it should be inflexible and follow a certain strategy regardless of the information available in the environment. These models answer the question of when it pays an organism to b ...
Merleau-Ponty`s transcendental theory of perception - SAS
... engaged, like the philosopher of mind, in making claims about their essential nature, necessary and sufficient or constitutive conditions, and so on. Accordingly it seems reasonable to expect that, allowing for differences of vocabulary and methodology, on matters of substance numerous points of con ...
... engaged, like the philosopher of mind, in making claims about their essential nature, necessary and sufficient or constitutive conditions, and so on. Accordingly it seems reasonable to expect that, allowing for differences of vocabulary and methodology, on matters of substance numerous points of con ...
Perceptual representation, veridicality, and the
... Specifically, it appears that their case for treating the computer interface as nonveridical rests on implausible (and unargued) assumptions about what it takes to have representational status, and about the content of the interface’s representational states. HSP appear to think it obvious that comp ...
... Specifically, it appears that their case for treating the computer interface as nonveridical rests on implausible (and unargued) assumptions about what it takes to have representational status, and about the content of the interface’s representational states. HSP appear to think it obvious that comp ...
Philosophy 165: Epistemology
... (True, "it will be sufficient to justify the rejection of the whole if I shall find in each some ground for doubt.") 5. Descartes believed that our intuition deceives us into accepting fallible beliefs as knowledge. (False, Descartes's claimed we could have infallible knowledge of certain metaphysic ...
... (True, "it will be sufficient to justify the rejection of the whole if I shall find in each some ground for doubt.") 5. Descartes believed that our intuition deceives us into accepting fallible beliefs as knowledge. (False, Descartes's claimed we could have infallible knowledge of certain metaphysic ...
Generative Replication and the Evolution of Complexity
... phenomenon of synthesis, if properly arranged, can become explosive, in other words, where synthesis of automata can proceed in such a manner that each automaton will produce other automata which are more complex and of higher potentialities than itself. Following von Neumann, we propose that genera ...
... phenomenon of synthesis, if properly arranged, can become explosive, in other words, where synthesis of automata can proceed in such a manner that each automaton will produce other automata which are more complex and of higher potentialities than itself. Following von Neumann, we propose that genera ...
Bounded Rationality and the Emergence of
... Apart from these developments, two other developments that are usually mentioned in discussing rationality in modern economics, namely, game theory and rational expectations. Formal treatments of game theory dates as far back as 1912 in the form of Ernst Zermelo’s work followed by the ‘subjective’ a ...
... Apart from these developments, two other developments that are usually mentioned in discussing rationality in modern economics, namely, game theory and rational expectations. Formal treatments of game theory dates as far back as 1912 in the form of Ernst Zermelo’s work followed by the ‘subjective’ a ...
Adam Smith`s Political Philosophy: The invisible hand
... broad church of liberalism these ideas appear. The first distinction we might usefully make is between the use of the term ‘liberal’ as it is traditionally understood in the history of political thought, and its use in the United States as a description of a particular political position. A liberal, ...
... broad church of liberalism these ideas appear. The first distinction we might usefully make is between the use of the term ‘liberal’ as it is traditionally understood in the history of political thought, and its use in the United States as a description of a particular political position. A liberal, ...