A consistent concept of logical probability affords the employment of interval probability. Such a concept which attributes probability to arguments consisting of premise and conclusion, can be used to generate a system of axioms for statistical inference.

Complexity is an interdisciplinary concept which, first of all, addresses the question of how order emerges out of randomness. For many reasons matrices provide a very practical and powerful tool in approaching and quantifying the related characteristics. Based on several natural complex dynamical systems, like the strongly interacting quantum many-body systems, the human brain and the financia...

The FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) has recently become the popular hardware and so-called LUTs (Look up Tables) are basic of FPGAs logic. For example, n-LUT is MOS pass transistors multiplexer 2n-1 which input data receive SRAM cells logic function configuration (user’s projects Truth Table). Address inputs LUT variables. Therefore, we get one n-arguments for actual configuration. To m fu...

Bisubmodularity extends the concept of submodularity to set functions with two arguments. We show how bisubmodular maximization leads to richer value-of-information problems, using examples in sensor placement and feature selection. We present the first constant-factor approximation algorithm for a wide class of bisubmodular maximizations.

We discuss, from a statistical point of view, some leading issues that deal with the study of stellar populations in fully or partially unresolved aggregates, like globular clusters and distant galaxies. A confident assessment of the effective number and luminosity of stellar contributors can provide, in this regard, a very useful interpretative tool to properly assess the observational bias co...

In this paper we discuss the use of the social concept ‘conviviality’ for computer science in general, and for the development of ambient technologies in particular. First, we give a survey of the use of the concept ‘conviviality’ in the social sciences. Conviviality is usually considered a positive concept related to sociability. However, further analysis reveals a negative side related to lac...