announce their intent to support a special awards competition opening in fiscal year 2002. For this awards competition, the EPA and the NSF are jointly soliciting grant applications that focus on the Decision-Making and Valuation for Environmental Policy (DMVEP) research area. The online announcement of the DMVEP awards competition and application forms are available at http://es.epa. gov/ncer/...

The area of cybersecurity problems has reached the stage becoming a science. This raises questions about connection between mathematical theories used in research and their relation to methodology for experiments conceptual models synthesized from academic community. proposes an analytical review ideas applied cyber-security theoretical explorations. meta viewpoint is dedicated standard issues....

In this paper we consider the modern theory of the Bayesian brain from cognitive neurosciences in the light of recommender systems and expose potentials for our community. In particular, we elaborate on noisy user feedback and the thus resulting multicomponent user models, which have indeed a biological origin. In real user experiments we observe the impact of both factors directly in a repeate...