Making sense of our daily experience is a significantly human pastime. We try to understand and structure our experiences so that we can come to grips with the messiness and confusion of everyday life and by so doing give meaning and direction to our actions. Philosophy is one method that we use for explaining our experiences. A philosophy is a collection of beliefs. A belief is a conviction in...

This paper describes a GRASP with path-relinking heuristic for the quadratic assignment problem. GRASP is a multi-start procedure, where different points in the search space are probed with local search for high-quality solutions. Each iteration of GRASP consists of the construction of a randomized greedy solution, followed by local search, starting from the constructed solution. Path-relinking...

In human grasping, choices are made on the use of hand-parts even before a grasp is realized. The human associates these choices with end-functionality and is confident that the resulting grasp will be able to meet task requirements.We refer to these choices on the use of hand-parts underlying grasp formation as the grasp intention. Modeling the grasp intention offers a paradigm whereby decisio...

In judo, making the opponent uncertain requires the mastery of several throws in 3 or 4 different directions and a firm grasp to secure the throw. The system of attacks for 28 judoka (18 men, 10 women) during their 185 respective matches over the competition season of 2001-2002 was analyzed. Practice was regional or interregional. The mean number of matches was 3.3+/-1.1. The mean number of suc...