Abstract The current chapter has the primary purpose of laying theoretical grounds on which cross-cultural empirical research program Hope Barometer between 2017 and 2021 was developed executed. two main goals this correspond to inter- transdisciplinary methodology applied in our work. first goal is give a brief interdisciplinary overview psychological, philosophical, theological theories prese...

Abstract Criticality is hypothesized as a physical mechanism underlying efficient transitions between cortical states and remarkable information-processing capacities in the brain. While considerable evidence generally supports this hypothesis, nonnegligible controversies persist regarding ubiquity of criticality neural dynamics its role information processing. Validity issues frequently arise ...

This paper introduces an extension of logic programming based on multi-dimensional logics, called MLP. In a multi-dimensional logic the values of elements vary depending on more than one dimension, such as time and space. The resulting logic programming language is suitable for modelling objects which involve implicit and/or explicit temporal and spatial dependencies. The execution of programs ...

This is a shorter version of an article presented in: Fundamenta Informaticae, vol. 28 (3, 4), pp: 423-430. IOS Press, 1996. A lot of research on genetic algorithms theory is concentrated on classical, binary case. However, there are many other types of useful genetic algorithms (GA), e.g. tree-based (genetic programming), or order-based ones. This paper shows, that many of classical results ca...

Modeling worlds and actions under uncer­ tainty is one of the central problems in the framework of decision-theoretic planning. The representation must be general enough to capture real-world problems but at the same time it must provide a basis upon which theoretical results can be derived. The cen­ tral notion in the framework we propose here is that of the affine-operator, which serves as a ...

The thesis presents a novel set-theoretic formalization of (propositional) hybrid planning – a planning framework that fuses Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) planning with Partial-Order Causal-Link (POCL) planning. Several sub classes thereof are identified that capture well-known problems such as HTN planning and POCL planning. For these problem classes, the complexity of the plan-existence pro...

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Using finite element methods, we need to answer these questions: • What is the appropriate functional space V for the solution? • What is the appropriate weak or variational form of a differential equation? • What kind of basis functions or finite element spaces should we choose? • How accurate is the finite element solution? We briefly address these questions in this Chapter. Recalling that fi...

In this lecture, the new insights and strategies that transpersonal psychology offers will be discussed in relation to the global crisis. Western academic psychiatry, psychology, and psychotherapy are ethnocentric; they tend to see their point of view as being superior to the perspectives of all the other cultural groups. They are also pragmacentric in that they take into considerations only ex...