Handbooks of human communication describe personal distance as a protective bubble surrounding our body and stress the role of sex (along with other cultural and situational factors) in stretching and shrinking it. Using data from a simulated dyadic interaction procedure, we show that putative effects of sex may be explained by effects of one’s arm length in same-sex and different-sex interacti...

The key idea behind Cultural Algorithms is to explcitly acquire problem-solving knowledge (beliefs) from the evolving population in the form of schemata and in return apply that knowledge to guide the search [Reynolds 1993, 1996]. In solving nonlinear constraint optimization problems, the key problem is how to represent and store the knowledge about the constraints. Previously, Chung [1996, 199...

CIDOC CRM is an ontology to represent cultural heritage information, especially museum collections. This paper presents the use of CIDOC CRM as an ontology describing a digital-library-originated knowledge base. An application profile is presented with some terms taken from other vocabularies, a few CIDOC classes extensions and a small set of new properties. The application profile has been use...

The proposed work addresses the Inhabited Information Spaces schema of the ESPRIT I initiative. The main objective of the proposed work is to develop a shared and co-operative information environment for the thematic space of the virtual Information Technology laboratory accessible by different user groups in remote sites and with different cultural backgrounds and usage patterns. The virtual I...

While talking, people may move heavily their arms around, remain expressionless, or even display subtle facial movements... These differences may arise from personality, cultural, social factors and many more. In the present work, we are interested in defining a schema that characterizes distinctiveness in behaviors. Distinctiveness encompasses behaviors differences regarding (i) shape (which s...

the aim of the present study was to examine psychometric properties of the schema questionnaire, including reliability and validity in a sample of university students (n=387). the original version of the schema questionnaire was made for measuring the early maladaptive schemas by young adults. it is assumed that early maladaptive schemas may lead to psychological disorders. the factor analysis ...

As the Semantic Web gains momentum, so grows the interest in making knowledge kept in various repositories available. In this paper we describe a case study using a methodological approach for porting cultural repositories to the Semantic Web. The approach consists of thesaurus conversion, meta-data schema mapping, meta-data value mapping, and thesauri alignment. It is derived from our experien...

Outlined in this paper are a number of sources of evidence, from psychological, ethnomusicological and engineering grounds, to suggest that current approaches to computational beat tracking are incomplete. It is contended that the degree to which cultural knowledge, that is, the specifics of style and associated learnt representational schema, underlie the human faculty of beat tracking has bee...

Discover is a web resource supporting the visual arts and music curriculum in New Zealand schools. It contains 2500 multimedia items from the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, which holds the national cultural heritage collections, and 300 resources from other sources. The product uses a meta-data scheme that combines simple (unqualified) DC and qualified DC, EAD and local extensio...