Abstract Prioritarianism is a variant of utilitarianism. It differs from utilitarianism in that benefiting individuals matters more the worse off these are. On this view, there are two standard ways handling risky prospects: Ex-Post adjusts for prioritizing final outcomes and then values prospects by expectation sum total those adjusted values, whereas Ex-Ante on each individual's expectations....

The term ‘human interpretation’ itself has two interpretations: interpretation by human beings and interpretation of human beings. We are all familiar with both kinds of interpretation in ordinary life. Marie interprets Sam’s remark as a sexual invitation; Joseph interprets the famous guest’s attire as an insult to the host. But as the organizers of our conference point out, we have no systemat...

Designing robust narrative experience in games is a complex and demanding task. The need to balance authorial control with player interactivity necessitates structurally flexible storytelling tools. One such tool is the micronarrative an internal unit of narrative progression and coherence. This paper explicates relationships between the size, form, and experience of narrative units within elec...

We describe ANGELINA-5, software capable of creating simple three-dimensional games autonomously. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first system which creates complete games in 3D. We summarise the history of the ANGELINA project so far, describe the architecture of the latest version, and give details of its participation in Ludum Dare, a game design competition. This is the first time...

PROFESSOR WIDDESS in the small compass of 130 pages has covered the Surgery of Dublin and of Ireland in general, dealing particularly with that exciting period of the last 200 years. He deals with the schools of surgery of Dublin which, like their famous counterparts in London, The Hunterian and other schools, were the forenames of their more organised successor The Royal College of Surgeons in...

We document a divergence in the duration of rule for monarchs in Western Europe and the Islamic world beginning in the medieval period. While leadership tenures in the two regions were similar in the 8th century, Christian kings became increasingly long lived compared to Muslim sultans. We argue that forms of executive constraint that emerged under feudal institutions in Western Europe were ass...

Coordinating Search and Rescue (SAR) operations is a knowledge and information intensive task. Upon receiving an initial indication about a possible aircraft related problem, a Rescue Coordination Center (RCC) Controller sets out to find out more about the nature of the problem. This situation assessment phase is highly complex due to the diverse and sophisticated nature of the many information...

This Appendix contains an overview of debt collection technologies in the U.S. and its recent evolution. In the first section we summarize how debt is collected in the U.S. Section 2 focuses on collection technology and its recent evolution. The last section describes the data sources used in the analysis. 1 Overview of the Debt Collection Process in the US We briefly describe the debt collecti...

Apparently Ex Falso Quodlibet (or Explosion) cannot be isolated within CL (Classical Logic); if Explosion has to go, then so have other inference rules, for example either Addition or Disjunctive Syllogism. This certainly holds according to the standard abstract view on logic. However, as I shall show, it does not hold if a logic is defined by a procedure—a set of instructions to obtain a proof...