Boundaries without boundaries

Black holes without boundaries

We discuss some of the drawbacks of using event horizons to define black holes and suggest ways in which black holes can be described without event horizons, using trapping horizons. We show that these trapping horizons give rise to thermodynamic behavior and possibly Hawking radiation too. This raises the issue of whether the event horizon or the trapping horizon should be seen as the true bou...

Data without Boundaries

Narrative Intelligence Without (Domain) Boundaries

Narrative Intelligence (NI) can help computational systems interact with users, such as through story generation, interactive narratives, and believable virtual characters. However, existing NI techniques generally require manually coded domain knowledge, restricting their scalability. An approach that intelligently, automatically and economically acquires script-like knowledge in any domain wi...

A CRONYM : Data without Boundaries D

Disclosure limitation methods for protecting the confidentiality ofrespondents in survey microdata often use perturbative techniques whichintroduce measurement error into the categorical identifying variables. Inaddition, the data itself will often have measurement errors commonly arisingfrom survey processes. There is a need for valid and practical ways to assess theprotect...

Epistemically Vague Boundaries without Margins of Error

I propose to give a solution to the sorites paradox with respect to monadic predicates expressing sensible qualities that is squarely within the epistemicist camp of Williamson (1994, 1996), Sorenson (1988, 2001), and Rescher (2009). In particular, I will address what appears to be the Achilles’ heel of that account: namely, the problem of giving a plausible story about how an exact boundary ar...