In recent decades, affective scientists have begun using concepts and tools from dynamical systems theory (DST) to characterise emotional processes. This article considers how the concept of emergence might be used develop this approach. Emotions are explicated as ‘emergent products’ that diachronically constrain operations their parts in virtue feedback loops (a classical feature nonlinear sys...

Background: Developmental Evaluation (DE) continues to develop. After reviewing the niche and history of DE, this article identifies five new emergent purposes for DE add original – forecasts future developments diverse, innovative, adaptive applications. An extended example in supporting pivoting pandemic illustrates as adaptation crisis distinct from social innovation.
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Key findings of emergent literacy research conclude that emergent literacy experiences correlate with later reading success and that emergent literacy intervention for children with special needs is essential. As a group with special needs, children with Down syndrome require emergent literacy intervention. They may attain functional literacy skills and their language development determines the...

A major current challenge in the area of complex multi-agent systems is the conceptual approach to, and practical treatment of, emergent behaviour. This paper indicates how Formal Methods may be applied to engineer multi-agent adaptive systems exhibiting emergence, by consideration of an ‘emergence predicate’ in the specification and the incremental derivation of interacting components that ach...

This paper carries out a systematic literature review of gameplay requirements by identifying gameplay aspects of Massively Multiplier Online games from publications released between 2004 and 2014. These aspects can be categorized to determine the state of the art regarding MMO’s. Aspects include MMO’s in general, their gameplay requirements, gameplay and player modelling, emergent gameplay, th...

A new me thod is p r e s e n t e d for s impl i fy ing t h e l o g i c a l e x p r e s s i o n s u s e d to r e p r e s e n t u t t e r a n c e m e a n ing in a n a t u r a l l a n g u a g e sys t em. 1 This s i m p l i f i c a t i o n m e t h o d u t i l i z e s t he e n c o d e d knowledge a nd t h e l imi t ed i n f e r e n c e m a k i n g c a p a b i l i t y of a t a x o n o m i c k n o w l...

Democratic governments constantly need to make sense of their citizens’ needs to make appropriate decisions that reflect the overall wishes and needs of the population. However, except for mandatory voting scenarios, a low rate of citizen participation in government decisions through democratic processes is an aspect that defies democracy itself. Brazil’s participatory budget policy emphasizes ...

A problem that arises in getting computers to per­ ceive 3-D scenes is relating information from several different viewpoints. In particular, if the computer moves its sensor, it has to be able to predict changes in images of objects it has seen without having to completely re-recognize them. A solution to this prob­ lem has been implemented at Stanford using a calib­ rated camera model which e...

“Genealogy does not pretend to go back in time to restore an unbroken continuity that operates beyond the dispersion of forgotten things; its duty is not to demonstrate that the past actively exists in the present, that it continues secretly to animate the present, having imposed a predetermined form to all its vicissitudes. Genealogy does not resemble the evolution of a species and does not ma...