From Langston Hughes to Hilary Ng'weno: Jess B. Simple Becomes Joe Kihara

The Feminine Representation of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois in Langston Hughes' Not Without Laughter

A Teaching Strategies Engine Using Translation from SWRL to Jess

Within an intelligent tutoring system framework, the teaching strategy engine stores and executes teaching strategies. A teaching strategy is a kind of procedural knowledge, generically an if-then rule that queries the learner’s state and performs teaching actions. We develop a concrete implementation of a teaching strategy engine based on an automatic conversion from SWRL to Jess. This convers...

Bladder Cancer: A Simple Model Becomes Complex

Bladder cancer is one of the most frequent malignancies in developed countries and it is also characterized by a high number of recurrences. Despite this, several authors in the past reported that only two altered molecular pathways may genetically explain all cases of bladder cancer: one involving the FGFR3 gene, and the other involving the TP53 gene. Mutations in any of these two genes are us...

REPLY TO STEPHEN WHITE hilary putnaM

W i responded to stephen White’s deep and elegant lecture in rome, i said that i agreed with his transcendental argument and i do. it is a profound contribution to the discussion of the epistemology and phenomenology of perception. and apart from one minor textual issue having to do with William James,1 was so convinced by that lecture that i had no criticism to voice. But on a subsequent close...

Extending Jess to Handle Uncertainty

Computer scientists are often faced with the challenge of having to model the world and its associated uncertainties. One area in particular where modelling uncertainty is important are Expert Systems (also referred to as Knowledge Based Systems and Intelligent Systems), where procedural / classification knowledge is often captured as facts and rules. One of the earliest Expert Systems to incor...