The g oomy biographies l of m nt e al patients most often represent psychiatric artifacts produced through a "loaded" process of sampling only the bleak events of the patients' lives. If a social identity were constructed for any person based on a biased sample of his life events, he could easily be portrayed as a villain or as a man of character, as a criminal or as a men of low and o der, as ...

sane, he spent a year and a half in the Leningrad prison-hospital. In December, 1965, he organized a demonstration of 200 people in Moscow which demanded an open trial?under the banner "Respect the Constitution"?for the writers Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuly Daniel. For this he was again arrested, and held in the Serbsky Institute for Forensic Psychiatry. The next summer?in Mr. Bukovsky's words?"a r...

This paper proposes a novel hierarichical architecture and resource-management protocol for the delegation of work within a ubiquitous and heterogeneous environment. The protocol is based on serving SVP places to delegate a component of work together with the responsibility for meeting any non-functional computational requirements such as deadline or throughput constraints. The protocol is base...

Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation studies have until now failed to model the symbiotic evaluation methods and the extensive amounts of horizontal gene transfer that are starting to be recognized in recent Metagenomic approaches to understanding microbial populations. Examples can be seen, in Learning Classifier Systems, and the SANE algorithm, of symbiotic evaluations; the Microbial ...