Qatar's Natural Sustainability: Plans, Perceptions, and Pitfalls

Perceptions of environmental sustainability amongst mineworkers

Environmental sustainability needs to use resources efficiently and effectively from macro to micro level with a systematic approach. The dualistic relationship between ecosystem and human beings require considering ecological and social systems as well as economic factors known as the three-legged approach. Individuals and their perceptions are also important in this approach because of the ne...

Text Plans and World Plans in Natural Discourse

D i s c o u r s e i s b o t h abou t t h e w o r l d and a n accomp l i shmen t i n t h e w o r l d . T h i s f a c t has l e d t o two approaches t o t h e s t u d y o f d i s c o u r s e I n a r t i f i c i a l i n t e l l i g e n c e , one i n v e s t i g a t i n g " t e x t p l a n s * ' , t h e o t h e r " w o r l d p l a n s " . By a n a l y z i n g a f r a g m e n t o f a n a r r a t i v...

Natural Language Generation from Plans

This paper addresses the problem of designing a system that accepts a plan structure of the sort generated by AI planning programs and produces natural language text explaining how to execute the plan. We describe a system that generates text from plans produced by the NONLIN planner (Tate 1976). The results of our system are promising, but the texts still lack much of the smoothness of human-g...

Natural selection and veridical perceptions.

Does natural selection favor veridical perceptions, those that more accurately depict the objective environment? Students of perception often claim that it does. But this claim, though influential, has not been adequately tested. Here we formalize the claim and a few alternatives. To test them, we introduce "interface games," a class of evolutionary games in which perceptual strategies compete....

Sustainability Natural Resource Management 1