Rebel Fortresses and Local Identities in Ninth-Century Al-Andalus

Diet and dietetics in al-Andalus.

Al-Andalus society (711-1492) based its idea of health on the wisdom of Classical Greece, the Hippocratic-Galenic theories, as well as the Persian and Hindu cultures. The twelfth century in al-Andalus is considered to be the most prolific period for works of a scientific and technical nature. At the time, the main treatises on dietetics were written and this science reached its widest expressio...

Vocabularies of Grief and Consolation in Ninth-Century Francia

Case-based Local and Global Percept Processing for Rebel Agents

Rebel Agents are goal-reasoning agents capable of “refusing” a usergiven goal, plan, or subplan that conflicts with the agent’s own internal motivation. Rebel Agents are intended to enhance character believability, a key aspect of creating engaging narratives in any medium, among other possible uses. We propose to implement and expand upon a Rebel Agent prototype in eBotworks, a cognitive agent...

Detecting Fortresses in Chess

We introduce a computational method for semi-automatical detecting fortresses in the game of chess. It is based on computer heuristic search and can be easily used with any state-of-the-art chess program. We also demonstrate a method for avoiding fortresses and show how to find a break-through plan when one exists. Although the paper is not concerned with the question whether it is practical or...

A social analysis of irrigation in Al-Andalus: Nazari Granada (13-15 centuries)

This paper concerns the outer urban area of the town of Granada in the Nasrid period (13the15th centuries). Most agricultural land was irrigated because of the characteristic drought of the Mediterranean climate, and also because of the needs of certain crops which had been brought by the Arabs from monsoon climates. Water distribution followed patterns that were not only hydrographical and top...