The Worskhop on Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns (WOP2015, 6th edition) was held on October 11, 2015 in conjunction with the 14th International Semantic Web Conference in Bethlehem, PA, USA. At the workshop, the organizers conducted a discussion with the participants regarding the promises and obstacles of ontology design patterns (ODPs for short). This editorial reports on those discussions....

Special Note: Chain retailers are very conscious of the need to carry only private-label models/styles that are easy and less expensive to produce so they can sell their private-label shoes at attractively lower prices than name brand athletic footwear. As a consequence of their efforts to order only models/styles that are simpler to produce, production run set-up costs for private-label pairs ...

’n Steekproef van 47 Blanke Suid-Afrikaners is bestudeer met die oog op hulle ervaringe van en houding teenoor nieortodokse genesers. Die uitslag van die beperkte ondersoek beklemtoon die uiters mitiese aard van wat deurgaan vir wat algemeen bekend is oor alternatiewe praktisyns. Verskeie bedenksels word ondersoek en daar word tot die slotsom gekom dat Blanke Suid-Afrikaners gewoonlik deeglik b...

Expectations of unconditional other-regarding preferences has shown to be important for trust game behavior and can be seen as expectations of generosity or fairness. In this thesis these expectations are captured in the variable faith. A plausible mechanism between faith and trust is developed in line with the findings of Holm and Danielson (2005). An experiment revealing faith and a standard ...

In the early 1900s Cooley’s concept of the “looking glass self” (Cooley, 1902, 1909) articulated that ideas about ourselves are profoundly shaped by how we believe others see us—that one’s self concept is socially constructed. As a result, negative judgments from others are often incorporated into one’s self concept (Allport, 1954; Crocker & Major, 1989; Link, Cullen, Struening, et al., 1989; M...

A specific methodology for these activities has not been prepared because the contribution to total national emissions is thought to be currently insignificant, i.e. less than 1% of national emissions of any pollutant. If you have information contrary to this please contact the expert panel leaders.

This dissertation addresses a basic difficulty in accommodating other-regarding preferences within existing models of decision making. Decision makers with such preferences may violate the property of stochastic dominance that is shared by both expected utility and almost any model of non-expected utility. At its core, stochastic dominance requires a decision maker's behavior to conform to a ba...