One of the visions almost excessively quoted in current discussions of what the information infrastructure of the WWW may ultimately turn out to be is Vannevar Bush’s article ”As we may think” written in 1945, and thus quite some time before the advent of computers as we know them today. In fact, Bush’s vision concerns the organization of information much more than the technical means and instr...

Why do we represent the world around us using causal generalizations, rather than, say, purely statistical generalizations? Do causal representations contain useful additional information, or are they merely more efficient for inferential purposes? This chapter considers the second kind of answer: it investigates some ways in which causal cognition might aid us not because of its expressive pow...

Various traditions within developmental science and psychology have concentrated on either personal or collective correlates as manifestations of well-being. Our claim is that the well-being of any one person is highly dependent on the well-being of her relationships and on the community in which she resides ~Nelson & Prilleltensky, 2005; Prilleltensky, Nelson, & Peirson, 2001!. Well-being may ...

With great interest, I have been observing the developments in continuous lifelong capture, which has been gaining momentum over the last few years. By lifelong capture, I refer to someone digitally logging every moment and element of their lives, a usually permanent recording of an activity by a participant in the activity. This process often results in the unanticipated capture of valuable mo...

background and importance: our learning curve during two decades of neurosurgical practice has been changed from an abstractive to a more meaningful and conductive state. in cases of fifth nerve neurinoma, pre-operative anatomopathologic diagnosis could lead us to a pre-planned program during and after the surgery to get the safe surgical result. case presentation: representation of two complex...

in this paper, we focus on a continuously deteriorating critical equipment which its failure cannot be measured by cost criterion. for these types of systems like military systems, nuclear systems, etc it is extremely important to avoid failure during the actual operation of the system. in this paper we propose an approach which constrains failure probability to a pre-specified value. this valu...