The modern concept of deterministic chaos arises from the mathematical and physical investigation of the topological and dynamical properties of deterministic systems. The notion of deterministic chaos is frequently used in an increasing number of scientific as well as non-scientific contexts, ranging from mathematics and the physics of dynamical systems to all sorts of complicated time evoluti...

Philosophers have recently begun to address the new intellectual challenges arising from the world of information and the information society. Consequently, a new and vitally important area of research has begun to emerge, the philosophy of information (PI). This paper is the first attempt to analyse the potential nature of PI systematically. The paper aims to explain (1) what PI is (2) how PI ...

Motor skill learning is hardly considered in current AIED literature. However, there are many learning tasks that require consolidating motor tasks into memory through repetition towards accurate movements, such as learning to write, to draw, to play a musical instrument, to practice a sport technique, to dance, to use sign language or to train for surgery. The field of Artificial Intelligence ...

Transferring between surfaces is an important part of wheelchair users’ lives and are performed an average of 11 to 20 times each day (Koontz, Bass, & Cooper, 2015). When people think of wheelchair transfers, often what comes to mind are transfers to or from another surface that is similar in height, such as wheelchair-to-bed or wheelchair-to-car transfers. Transfers that are considered less of...

The diffusion model is one of the major sequential-sampling models for two-choice decision-making and choice response time in psychology. The model conceives of decision-making as a process in which noisy evidence is accumulated until one of two response criteria is reached and the associated response is made. The criteria represent the amount of evidence needed to make each decision and reflec...

Much work is under way within the Grid technology community on issues associated with the development of services to foster collaboration via the integration and exploitation of multiple autonomous, distributed data sources through a seamless and flexible virtualized interface. However, several obstacles arise in the design and implementation of such services. A notable obstacle, namely how cli...

Speech quality is an interesting and very important aspect not only from linguistic and/or phonetic viewpoint but also from the viewpoint of speech technology. This study has been conducted from the latter point of view. A method has been developed based on the analysis-synthesis technique which enables to control voice quality by independently manipulating the voice source and the vocal tract ...