(Maher 2012) introduced an approach for relative expressiveness of defeasible logics, and two notions of relative expressiveness were investigated. Using the first of these definitions of relative expressiveness, we show that all the defeasible logics in the DL framework are equally expressive under this formulation of relative expressiveness. The second formulation of relative expressiveness i...

Montesquieu argued that residents of warmer climates are more emotionally expressive than those living in cooler ones. More than 2,900 college students from 26 countries completed a brief questionnaire assessing the degree to which they considered Northerners and Southerners within their own countries to be emotionally expressive. In addition, individuals rated themselves on their own degree of...

There is a growing interest in employing embodied agents to achieve beneficial outcomes for users, such as improving health, or increasing motivation for learning. The goal of our research is to explore how and to what extent embodied agents can provide social support to victims of cyberbullying. To this end, we implemented a proof of concept virtual buddy that uses verbal and nonverbal behavio...

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We consider two recently proposed definitions of the expressive power of description logics, one due to Baader, the other due to Kurtonina and de Rijke. The proposals are non-equivalent, and we explain their differences, similarities, as well as ways in which they are related. We also map out a research agenda resulting from efforts to combine the two approaches.