Testimonies on Plato’s Unwritten Dialectic

A Reputation Model Based on Testimonies

Reputation mechanisms are being used to increase the reliability and performance of virtual societies. Different decentralized reputation models have been proposed based on interactions among agents. Each system agent evaluates and stores the reputations of the agents with whom they have interacted and can also testify to other agents about such reputations. The main disadvantages of such appro...

Dialectic Search

We introduce Hegel and Fichte’s dialectic as a search meta-heuristic for constraint satisfaction and optimization. Dialectic is an appealing mental concept for local search as it tightly integrates and yet clearly marks off of one another the two most important aspects of local search algorithms, search space exploration and exploitation. We believe that this makes dialectic search easy to use ...

A dialectic view on Open Innovation

The paradigm of Open-Innovation allows software companies new forms of interactive innovation and its diffusion across socio-cultural boundaries. This process constitutes and is constituted by a heterogeneous network of interacting actors. In this interaction, seeds for innovation will be created and have to be adopted by the participants of the respective network. This paper studies the concep...

America’s Constitution, Written and Unwritten

A Dialectic on Graduate Analytics Education

While Data Analytics programs are proliferating in many disciplines, traditional academic approaches seem to favor depth of technical skills over soft skills in their approaches to creating Data Analytics programs. Yet business wants an equal focus on communication, relationship development, and other soft skills. This panel will explore the issues in graduate analytics education to develop an ...