Important Facts and Observations about Pairwise Comparisons (the special issue edition)

Special Issue

Special Issue about Advances in Physical Agents

Nowadays, there are a lot of Spanish groups which are doing research in areas related with physical agents: they use agent-based technologies concepts, especially industrial applications, robotics and domotics (physical agents) and applications related to the information society, (software agents) highlighting the similarities and synergies among physical and software agents. In this special is...

Pairwise Comparisons Simplified

This study examines the notion of generators of a pairwise comparisons matrix. Such approach decreases the number of pairwise comparisons from n · (n − 1) to n − 1. An algorithm of reconstructing of the PC matrix from its set of generators is presented.

Special Issue: Understanding, representing, and reasoning about style

Style is a word that people think they understand. Most people recognize artifacts like buildings and clothes as being exemplars of particular styles, and they know words like Rococo and Art Deco as names for styles. They can recognize stylistic similarities not only in one sort of artifact but also across wide ranges of different things, such as buildings, furniture, artworks, clothes, music, ...

Some assumptions and facts about arithmetic facts

In the present review we will deal with the following questions: What are arithmetic facts? How are they related to other cognitive functions? What are characteristic features of fact retrieval performance in healthy adult subjects? Which typical patterns of breakdown can be observed in acalculia? How do current models account for the representation of and access to arithmetic facts?