Solving “Einstein's Riddle” Using Spreadsheet Optimization

Solving the Riddle of Coherence

A coherent story is a story that fits together well. This notion plays a central role in the coherence theory of justification and has been proposed as a criterion for scientific theory choice. Many attempts have been made to give a probabilistic account of this notion. A proper account of coherence must not start from some partial intuitions, but should pay attention to the role that this noti...

Solving the Riddle of Coherence

A coherent story is a story that fits together well. This notion plays a central role in the coherence theory of justification and has been proposed as a criterion for scientific theory choice. Many attempts have been made to give a probabilistic account of this notion. A proper account of coherence must not start from some partial intuitions, but should pay attention to the role that this noti...

Information System Control Selection Using Spreadsheet Optimization

Lamsiekte (botulism): solving the aetiology riddle.

The reason or reasons why it took Sir Arnold Theiler so many years to unravel the riddle of the aetiology of lamsiekte in cattle and whether P.R. Viljoen's lifelong grudge for receiving insufficient credit from Theiler for his research contribution was justified are analysed in this paper. By 1912, Theiler knew that Duncan Hutcheon had advocated the use of bonemeal as a prophylactic against...

Solving the Wise Mountain Man Riddle with Answer Set Programming

This paper describes an exercise in the formalization of common-sense with Answer Set Programming aimed at solving an interesting riddle, whose solution is not obvious to many people. Solving the riddle requires a considerable amount of common-sense knowledge and sophisticated knowledge representation and reasoning techniques, including planning and adversarial reasoning. Most importantly, the ...