Drawing on results discussed in the target article by Baumeister et al. (1), I argue that the claim that the modern mind sciences are discovering that free will is an illusion (“willusionism”) is ambiguous and depends on how ordinary people understand free will. When interpreted in ways that the evidence does not justify, the willusionist claim can lead to ‘bad results.’ That is, telling people...

One of the main goals of domain-specific languages is to enable the developer to define completely new languages for special domains in order to get the advantages of programming on a higher level of abstraction. Nowadays languages are represented in different ways: by metamodels specified in some data modelling technique or by formal grammars. This position paper examines the influence of the ...

Biochemical systems involving a high number of components with intricate interactions often lead to complex models containing a large number of parameters. Although a large model could describe in detail the mechanisms that underlie the system, its very large size may hinder us in understanding the key elements of the system. Also in terms of parameter identification, large models are often pro...

One form of information visualization is called ambient display. It is defined as the use of aesthetically pleasing displays of information which sit on the periphery of a user’s attention (Manko, Dey, Hsieh, Kientz, Lederer and Ames 2003). Financial visualization is the practice of making large financial datasets into images . In this paper, we describe a research project which uses watercolor...

We connect three different topics: combinatorial structures, simple games and influence games. We establish the bases to represent some simple games or some influence games by using combinatorial structures. These considerations are also able to generate any object of any topic based in graphs, for instance, molecules applied to chemistry, among others. Key–Words: Combinatorial Structures, Gene...