This report investigates the hypothesis: patterns in multimedia discourses can be used to specify and extract machine-executable representations of media content that capture important elements of stories. Multimedia Information Systems are amongst the more pervasive of information systems. The physical and conceptual task of synthesising two or more modalities of communication-visual and lingu...

I argue that the Parmenidean argument against the possibility of change initiated a metaphysical response that 1) has dominated Western thought since, and 2) creates aporia for understanding mental phenomena. A return to a process framework is consistent with historical trends, consistent with contemporary physics, and permits metaphysical emergence — most especially the emergence of normative ...

ions or fuzzings or coarse-grainings of the object, which are all derivative.) Alternatively, if fundamental reality is something more esoteric like an entangled quantum field or an eleven-dimensional arena inhabited by strings, then there maywell be no parts of fundamental reality that count as an instance of the object, in which case the object is unambiguously derivative. Empirical Analysis ...

Aquest article desenvolupa una metodologia al camp de les operacions rehabilitació i millora urbana en teixits urbans consolidats. Té per objecte racionalitzar el procés d'adjudicació d'un ús a zona o edifici existent pretén servir base edificis que actualment han quedat desús obsolets que, la seva entitat, mereixen un estudi detallat del paper podrien jugar context què es troben, com generador...

Innovar en el projecte i la construcció de l’arquitectura contemporània exigeix aprofundir coneixement d’autors crucials seva evolució a través les seves obres. Rietveld va dissenyar pavelló per Quarta Exposició Internacional d'Arquitectura celebrada l’any 1958 al parc Sonsbeek reutilitzant dos coberts existents. Els documents inèdits d’aquesta obra menor s’han localitzat Het Nieuwe Instituut, ...

Actualmente, más del cincuenta por ciento de la población mundial vive en las urbes, configuradas éstas como lugar reunión una multiculturalidad moderna, innovadora y comprometida con su entorno, que no acepta seguir el planeamiento urbanístico crecimiento desmesurado desarrollado durante últimas décadas. Surgen así los movimientos sociales actuales claman un derecho a ciudad humano emergente, ...

content only as a differentiated activity, as the existence of various powers, as an organically structured power. Certain things should be noted concerning Hegel’s presentation. 1. Abstract actuality, necessity (or substantial difference), substantiality, thus the categories of abstract logic, are made subjects. Indeed, abstract actuality and necessity are called ‘its’, the state’s, actuality ...

Interactive fiction can be understood and improved using concepts from narratology. Particularly useful is the idea that the discourse, or expression plane, can be considered separately from the underlying story, or content plane. While this sort of correspondence suggests many ways to improve IF and to achieve narrative variation, IF systems have yet to incorporate this distinction. An archite...

I compare Russell’s theory of mathematical functions, the “descriptive functions” from Principia Mathematica ∗30, with Frege’s well known account of functions as “unsaturated” entities. Russell analyses functional terms with propositional functions and the theory of definite descriptions. This is the primary technical role of the theory of descriptions in PM . In Principles of Mathematics and s...

Thinking about time travel is an entertaining way to explore how to understand time and its location in the broad conceptual landscape that includes causation, fate, action, possibility, experience, and reality. It is uncontroversial that time travel towards the future exists, and time travel to the past is generally recognized as permitted by Einstein’s general theory of relativity, though no ...