Interaction with internet-connected computing devices involves interaction with many distinct agents or sources simultaneously. Hardware, operating systems, web browsers, networking devices, and servers all influence the user experience, as do the engineers and programmers who designed them, the companies or organizations that have developed the systems, other users on the web, and various thir...

In this paper we analyse linguistic structures, such as “You make me feel angry”, which imply the possibility that a person can cause another person’s affect. We illustrate the concept of “affective causality”, based on an implicit-naïve theory of interpersonal relations linked to common sense. We present two theoretical alternative viewpoints (deriving from psychology and psychotherapy) which ...

Despite the fact that the origin of software agent systems has been rooted in autonomous artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology, their implementations are still based on conventional imperative computing techniques rather than autonomous computational intelligence. This paper presents a cognitive informatics perspective on autonomous agent systems (AAS’s). A hierarchical reference mod...

History is typically presented as historiography, where historians communicate via the written word. However, some historians have suggested alternative formats for communicating and thinking about historical information. One such format is known as historiophoty, which involves using a variety of visual images to represent history. The current article proposes that a particular type of graph, ...

Ranking has recently attracted much attention, conceptually as well as algorithmically and in its uses in major Internet search engines. A core goal of ranking and related techniques on the Web is to help people find what they are looking for – and (depending on the application) to suggest to them things that they didn’t know they were looking for, but might still find interesting. Any evaluati...

a comparative study of personality factors, life orientation and hope level in coronary heart patients and normal subjects     shiekhy s [1] , issazadegan a [2] * , banehasmishishevan mr [3] , mahmoodi h [4] , amani saribagloo j [5]     received: 26 nov , 2012 accepted: 20 feb , 2013     abstract   background & aims : one of the most important topics in the field of health psychology is the inf...