We present a detailed analysis of assumptions that J. Bell used to show that local realism contradicts QM. We find that Bell’s viewpoint on realism is nonphysical, because it implicitly assume that observed physical variables coincides with ontic variables (i.e., these variables before measurement). The real physical process of measurement is a process of dynamical interaction between a system ...

The realism of avatars in terms of behavioral and form is critical to the development of collaborative virtual environments. In the study we utilized state of the art, realtime face tracking technology to track and render facial expressions unobtrusively in a desktop CVE. Participants in dyads interacted with each other via either a videoconference (high behavioral realism and high form realism...

One of the most interesting issues that arises in agents based on the BDI (belief-desire-intention) formalism is capturing notions of realism, that is constraints that describe possible interrelationships between the three attitudes. Three such sets of constraints have been considered in the literature: strong realism, realism and weak realism. In this paper we propose notions of realism for he...

Since 2008, several countries have published new national cyber security strategies that allow for the possibility of offensive cyber operations. Typically, national strategies call for the establishment of a cyber operations unit capable of computer network defence, exploitation, and, in some nations, attack. The cyber operations unit will be manned by professionals and operate under governmen...

Let G = (V,E) be a graph. For a non-empty subset of vertices S ⊆ V , and vertex v ∈ V , let δS(v) = |{u ∈ S : uv ∈ E}| denote the cardinality of the set of neighbors of v in S, and let S = V − S. Consider the following condition: δS(v) ≥ δS(v) + k, (1) which states that a vertex v has at least k more neighbors in S than it has in S. A set S ⊆ V that satisfies Condition (1) for every vertex v ∈ ...

Causing people to take offense can occur when a marketer undertakes a controversial advertising campaign. What can make this a particularly important issue is when companies make what for many individuals is a controversial product, like condoms, erectile dysfunction drugs, feminine hygiene products and certain kinds of underwear. Such companies manufacture legitimate products for their target ...

In those parts of his paper that have the clearest bearing upon my contributions, Simon Deichsel 1) elaborates various conceptions of realism; 2) declares himself an anti-realist of a specific sort; 3) seeks to identify and criticise pragmatic aspects of my justification for adopting a realist orientation; and 4) argues that his anti-realist perspective is preferable to realism. An immediate pr...

We examine how online commenting is affected by different degrees of commenters’ identifiability: 1) real name accounts on social networking sites (or “real name-SNS accounts”; e.g., Facebook); 2) pseudonym accounts on social networking sites (or “pseudonym-SNS account”; e.g., Twitter); 3) pseudonymous accounts outside social networking sites (or “non-SNS accounts”; e.g., an online newspaper we...