Evolution without evolution and without ambiguities

Ontology evolution without tears

The evolution of ontologies is an undisputed necessity in ontology-based data integration. Yet, few research efforts have focused on addressing the need to reflect the evolution of ontologies used as global schemata onto the underlying data integration systems. In most of these approaches, when ontologies change their relations with the data sources, i.e., the mappings, are recreated manually, ...

Evolution without Naturalism

Does evolutionary theory have implications about the existence of supernatural entities? This question concerns the logical relationships that hold between the theory of evolution and different bits of metaphysics. There is a distinct question that I also want to address; it is epistemological in character. Does the evidence we have for evolutionary theory also provide evidence concerning the e...

Evolution without divergence.

Abelian Projection without Ambiguities

Laplacian Abelian Projection is discussed. This term refers to the use of a new (“Laplacian”) gauge fixing prescription for implementing the Abelian Projection of QCD. The gauge condition is based on the lowest-lying eigenvector of the covariant Laplacian operator in the adjoint representation. This Laplacian gauge fixing procedure is free of the ambiguities which plague lattice simulations whi...

Evolution without Sex, Drugs and Boolean Functions

Enough cannot be said about Evolution, a theory for which was first formulated by Darwin and Wallace, which drives life and, perhaps, is the reason for the emergence of the genetic information that forms its basis. At a very high level, evolution is an iterative process which takes feedback from an environment in order to refine existing information and bias it towards that which is more likely...