This paper presents a framework to infer spatial knowledge from semantic role representations. We infer whether entities are or are not located somewhere, and temporally anchor this spatial information. A large crowdsourcing effort on top of OntoNotes shows that these temporally-anchored spatial inferences are ubiquitous and intuitive to humans. Experimental results show that inferences can be ...

We use a version of Statecharts to represent multiagent plans and transactions. Although epistemic and deontic logic are abstract and appropriate for specification, we argue that an agent must know that abstract modal properties apply to it and its collaborators. We develop a language that describes Statechart features but also expresses knowledge, common knowledge, and obligations. The hierarc...

The issue of clusters as a form of organization of market entities has recently attracted an increasing attention of health care management theoreticians and practitioners. In our opinion the existing theoretical basis gives a foundation for considering clusters as a source of potential for increasing the effectiveness of health policy and health care organizations. It can be assumed that in ca...

mullā ṣadrā has three different approaches towards knowledge by presence concerning the material existences. on many occasions, he regards the physical matters, including bodies and accidents, out of the realm of knowledge by presence and maintains that they are neither present with themselves nor with another reality and nor another reality can be present with them. on another basis, he mainta...

Although infants and animals respond to the approximate number of elements in visual, auditory, and tactile arrays, only human children and adults have been shown to possess abstract numerical representations that apply to entities of all kinds (e.g., 7 samurai, seas, or sins). Do abstract numerical concepts depend on language or culture, or do they form a part of humans' innate, core knowledge...

imam ali (a) has paid special attention to human awareness of death and the necessity for remembering death. he attempts to lead man to a high degree of self-knowledge and meaningfulness of life through a comprehensive understanding of death. as is considered, death is essentially interrelated to life and, therefore, every lack of correct knowledge toward the former would affect human self-know...

"Intuitive Use" is increasingly mentioned as being a requirement for product design. However, it has not been established as a scientific term in the HCI community so far. Even though this disparity exists, practitioners need to know how intuitive use can be defined, how it can be measured, and how it can be designed. In usability engineering, several design criteria are discussed. But, to what...

WHAT CAN ROBOTS LEARN FROM HUMANS? Holger Friedrich and Michael Kaiser Institute for Real-Time Computer Systems & Robotics University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany. E-Mail: [email protected] Abstract. Programming by Demonstration (PbD) is an intuitive method to program a robot. The user, acting as a teacher or programmer, shows how a particular task should be carried out. ...