“Mocking idea and wild imagination”. Marek Słyk’s uncanny stories

Very Distributed Media Stories: Presence, Time, Imagination

The action of stories is always grounded and contextualized in a specific place and time. For centuries, artists seeking places worthy of representation have found inspiration in both the natural landscape and in man-made surrounds. This inspiration traditionally dwells on the scenic aspects of place and situation, in styles ranging from photorealistic to impressionistic. Sometimes, as in Austr...

Idea Management Communities in the Wild

Idea Management (IM) communities have the potential to transform business and communities through innovation. However, building successful communities is a difficult endeavor that requires a significant amount of both community management and technological support. Doing this requires a good understanding of how IM systems are used and how users behave, as these are fundamental aspects for the ...

An Expressive Semantics of Mocking

We present a semantics of mocking, based on a process calculuslike formalism, and an associated mocking framework. We can build expressive mocking specifications from a small, orthogonal set of operators. Our framework detects and rejects ambiguous specifications as a validation measure. We report our experience testing software components for the car industry, which needed the full power of ou...

Quantum Mechanics in Cell Microtubules : Wild Imagination or Realistic Possibility ?

280 Marek

Although probabilistic knowledge representations and probabilistic reasoning have by now secured their position in intelligent systems research, it is not uncommon to encounter misunderstanding of their foundations and lack of appreciation for their strengths. This paper discusses ve issues related to intelligent systems research and shows how they are addressed by the probabilistic knowledge r...