Objective of the study is a brief overview most significant philosophical approaches to creativity, highlighting key problems related topic such as: an ontological question involving secular and religious-mystical interpretations as well problem complex connection rational non-rational moments in creativity. The methodological basis research consists historical-philosophical comparative approac...

Since the fundamental principles of the medical profession were clearly defined in a physician charter in 2002, special considerations have been expressed about the adequate distribution of health care resources taking in account the individual patient needs to optimize the health care service. The correct application of procedures represents a key point in order to reach the appropriateness of...

In this paper we give an overview of an early prototype which learns structured constraint models from flat, positive examples of solutions. It is based on previous work on a Constraint Seeker, which finds constraints in the global constraint catalog satisfying positive and negative examples. In the current tool we extend this system to find structured conjunctions of constraints on regular sub...

The issue of aesthetics is complex, and the discussion on how to apply it to interaction design has hardly begun. Hence, there is not much written on how to teach this subject; this paper consists of a suggestion. Here, I will describe my work with the course Aesthetics of Interaction, and my initial intentions behind it. The course consisted of lectures, literature discussions, excursions, exe...

In a recent leading article on Griffiths in action the British Medical J7ournal suggested that the tabloid headline might have been "Administrators hijack NHS."' Hence the title for this article, which captures the essence of my experience of a course held at the King's Fund College. This was the introductory week of a two year training programme for registrars in community medicine; most of th...

The report presents a model to investigate the collective behaviour of a colony when memory of the agents interferes with the usual interaction between individuals. The approach is developed in the framework of a simple situation consisting in tandem recruitment in a population of conservative agents but it is susceptible to be applied also to a wider range of problems. The principle of the met...