. cross-cultural understanding dates back to the discovery of the third world, its peoples, and its religions. along this, the place of studying other peoples came in view. demography and orientalism were two disciplines which first aimed at studying other peoples regardless of their beliefs. after some thirty years, emphasis was laid on their beliefs, too. today after disproof of the anticipat...

We argue that a certain type of many minds (and many worlds) interpretations of quantum mechanics due to Lockwood (and Deutsch) do not provide a coherent interpretation of the quantum mechanical probabilistic algorithm. By contrast, in Albert and Loewer’s version of the many minds interpretation there is a coherent interpretation of the quantum mechanical probabilities. We consider Albert and L...

I-MINDS provides a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) infrastructure and environment for learners in synchronous learning and classroom management applications for instructors, for large classroom or distance education situations. For supporting the instructor, I-MINDS includes a teacher agent. The teacher agent allows the instructor to interact with students, manage Q&A sessions,...

Artificial Life offers strong tools for making coherent and disciplined our understanding of the relationships between several fundamental concepts within Cognitive Science more generally such as cognition, value, function, learning and others. One concept which may act as an anchor for this set of ideas is that of adaptivity, in its intraorganismic sense of a system being able to change to mai...

in many peoples’ minds, air pollution is associated with the contamination of urban air from automobile exhausts and industrial emissions. growing number of scientific evidence has indicated that in industrialized societies, air within buildings can be more seriously polluted than the outdoor air. in the last couple of decades, with the widespread availability of personal computers, mathematica...

The Theory of Mind provides a framework for an agent to predict the actions of adversaries by building an abstract model of their strategies using recursive nested beliefs. In this paper, we extend a recently introduced technique for opponent modelling based on Theory of Mind reasoning. Our extended multi-agent Theory of Mind model explicitly considers multiple opponents simultaneously. We intr...