Professeur Yves Golvan (1928-2008)

Professeur à l’Université de Grenoble

There are relatively few proposals for inconsistency measuresfor propositional belief bases. However inconsistency mea-sures are potentially as important as information measuresfor artificial intelligence, and more generally for computerscience. In particular, they can be useful to define variousoperators for belief revision, belief merging, and negotiation.The measu...

Professeur René HEN

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) display a delayed onset of antidepressant action of several weeks. Past work demonstrated evidence that the 5-HT4 receptor may be a direct target for treating depression and a new hope for fast acting antidepressant treatment. However, the 5-HT4 hypothesis still needs to be validated in models of anxiety/depression. We decided to investigate wheth...

professeur à l’Université de Cergy-Pontoise professeur à l’Université de Vérone

This thesis focuses on the measurement of dissimilarity in the distribution of relevanteconomic attributes and inequality of opportunity. Equality of opportunity has gained popularityfor defining the relevant equalitarian objective for the distribution of a broad range of social andeconomic outcomes among social groups. I show that equality of opportunity concerns in policyevalu...

J. BOURGOIS Professeur – Centre SITE

Pierre - Yves Oudeyer

To study the behavioral and cognitive structures that form in the childhood of animals, cognitive science has for a long time organized theories by trying to identify what is innate and what is learned, and how nature and nurture interact to influence each other. However, recent advances in developmental sciences are strongly questioning the relevance of this scientific framing based on the nat...