Introduction The following essay is based on the paper „Possible Worlds‟ by Robert C. Stalnaker from Cornell University. The author Robert C. Stalnaker is probably best known as one of the founders along with David Lewis of the possible world theory of conditionals and counterfactuals. Stalnaker takes the possible world framework as a method to look at some problems in the theory of knowledge and philosophy of mind. In this paper‚ the author recognises four theses in what he calls David Lewis‟s extreme
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service offerings. Our approach for tackling this issue is based on recent advances in computer and information science‚ where information about a domain at hand is conceptualized and formalized using ontologies and subsequently represented in machine-interpretable form. The substantive part from our ontology derives from broadly accepted service management and marketing concepts from business studies literature. In earlier work‚ we concentrated on the service bundling process itself. In the present chapter
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Alessandra Raengo Life in Those Shadows! Kara Walker’s Post-Cinematic Silhouettes1 Kara Walker’s installations have garnered international attention since the early 1990s for deploying an archaic representational form of portraiture – the cutout silhouette. They have been the target of considerable controversy2 for the perceived obscenity of her imagery and the alleged reviving of deep-seated racial stereotypes.3 Controversy that‚ I contend‚ is only partly a response to her iconography and more to
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Review for Exam 1: Intro to Communication Inquiry Defining Communication What are the issues involved in defining communication? A: Does communication have to intentional to be communication? Does it need to have correspondence as in the message sent has to equal the message received. Does the communication accomplish its goal‚ does there have to be intentionality‚ is it successful? Does communication have to be honest; should we only study communication that is moral? Does Communication include
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A NEW APPROACH TO AUTOMATIC WEB SERVICES COMPOSITION by Luong Viet Phong A thesis proposal submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering. Examination Committee: Prof. Vilas Wuwongse (Chairman) Nationality: Vietnam Previous Degree: Bachelor of Information Technology Ho Chi Minh University of Technology
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from a man named Morpheus; he found out that what he thought was real was actually not real at all‚ it was all a computer program. The life he lived was all a lie because of his perception blocking out reality. “The Matrix” can be compared to ontology‚ the study of being or what is‚ “The
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evaluation of BPMLs. It concentrates on consolidating existing literature instead of improving or modifying modeling techniques evaluation by utilizing the two most commonly used evaluation methods namely the representational theory based on BWW ontology and Curtis et al.’s framework. The focus of this study is based on eight modeling techniques including Petri nets‚ IDEF‚ EPC‚ UML‚ BPMN‚ WS-BPEL‚ and ebXML as the most popular modeling languages which have been widely applied in industrial and
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AGROVOC CONCEPT SERVER WORKBENCH INSTALLATION DOCUMENT September 2008 |[pic] |FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS | | | | | |helping to build a world without hunger |
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Contents : Abstract : Introduction : History : Concepts : Branches of AI : Artificial Intelligence in fiction : Problems o 7.1 Deduction‚ reasoning‚ problem solving o 7.2 Knowledge representation o 7.3 Planning o 7.4 Learning o 7.5 Motion & manipulation o 7.6 Perception o 7.7 Social intelligence o 7.8 Creativity o 7.9 General intelligence VIII : Tools o 8.1 Search & optimization o 8.2 Logic o 8.3 Probabilistic methods for uncertain reasoning
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43 Int. J. Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems‚ Vol. n‚ No. m‚ 2008 Commonsense Knowledge‚ Ontology and Ordinary Language Walid S. Saba American Institutes for Research‚ 1000 Thomas Jefferson Street‚ NW‚ Washington‚ DC 20007 USA E-mail: wsaba@air.org Abstract: Over two decades ago a “quite revolution” overwhelmingly replaced knowledgebased approaches in natural language processing (NLP) by quantitative (e.g.‚ statistical‚ corpus-based‚ machine learning) methods. Although it is our firm
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