Ways to Knowledge-First Believe

Two Ways to Put Knowledge First

Two Ways to Common Knowledge

It is not clear what a system for evidence-based common knowledge should look like if common knowledge is treated as a greatest fixed point. This paper is a preliminary step towards such a system. We argue that the standard induction rule is not well suited to axiomatize evidence-based common knowledge. As an alternative, we study two different deductive systems for the logic of common knowledg...

To Believe or Not To Believe: Improving Distributed Data Fusion with Second Order Knowledge

Most of works on Distributed Data Fusion (DDF ) systems investigate how to optimize or improve the fusion process by optimistically assuming the correctness of uncertainty models. The impact of using poor-quality information is not well addressed. Moreover, only a few works address how to improve the overall quality of the estimation result. The aim of this thesis is to cover this aspect of Mul...

The Ways of Knowledge Management

This paper summarizes the experience of an R&D Center: the Center for Knowledge Systems (CKS) at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico. The CKS ́s mission is to study the knowledge economy and to develop systems which enable individuals and organizations to develop sustainable strategies within that economy. Our work consists mostly of contracted industry projec...

Hard to Believe

This article presents a review of Hard to Believe, a compelling documentary reporting the forced organ procurement and death of Chinese prisoners of conscience. The documentary is targeted to ignite political and public pressure to stop these practices that are thought to be motivated by financial and political gain. Narrated by journalist and author Ethan Gutmann, the documentary pricks at the...