In this thesis we introduce and evolve the paradigm of theme-based literate programming (TBLP). TBLP enhances on the literate programming (LP) model, as invented by Donald Knuth in the early 1980s. TBLP provides a generic model that copes with current and future software development methodologies and practices. We show that through this extended chunk and processing model, XML-based support, an...

ERCIM News No. 53 April 2003 33 Thanks to recent technological advances, there are now many potential applications for robotics including multi-agent systems. The aim of the RoboCare project is to study issues and challenges involved in the design of systems for the care of the elderly that adopt both fixed and mobile heterogeneous agents. These agents can be robots, intelligent sensors or poss...

D Pereboom’s Living Without Free Will (2001) is an outstanding book that rightly changed the debate over an ancient problem. I am certain that Free Will Skepticism, Agency, and Meaning in Life will join the first book as a must-read for anyone in the world interested in these foundational issues. The main pillars of the account remain, including incompatibilism between free will and determinism...

In this paper we describe our method for the summarization of legal documents helping a legal expert determine the key ideas of a judgment. Our approach is based on the exploration of the document’s architecture and its thematic structures in order to build a table style summary for improving coherency and readability of the text. We present the components of a system, called LetSum, built with...

The conclusion summarizes the key findings presented within each section of the book. identifying the emerging patterns and themes across the conceptual contributions and empirical studies. These are considered in relation to our two initial questions, First, is there a universally applicable model of trust and trust development [etic], or do people from varying cultures understand and enact tr...

You might think that finding a research theme is simply a matter of starting with a question that interests you, turning it into a concrete problem and then planning and carrying out experiments to solve the problem. It is, but the really tricky part is finding a theme that’s suited to you personally. For example, if you’re thinking of using an experimental organism, you’d better make sure you’...