Alicia Ghiragossian: The Trilingual Poet

Alicia Mazzara

The Pathologist as Poet

The role of the humanities (eg, philosophy, bioethics, literature, music, theater, religion, anthropology) in medical education has been argued long and hard for decades. It is argued that the study of subjects included in the humanities can enhance critical thinking skills, foster a deeper level of learning and understanding, and help to enhance one's level of compassion, empathy, and moral/et...

ALICIA An Architecture for Intelligent Affective Agents

With virtual agents becoming more and more common in everyday life it is very important to define and develop agents with social capabilities. One of the most important social ability for effective social interaction with people is the capacity to understand, feel and ultimately express emotions [1–3]. In this paper we propose an architecture, based on the BDI paradigm [4, 5], employing the thr...

An English Poet in Scotland :

Travelling is at the core of the romantic experience of life, as it implies a form of reaching out in quest of experience, which will then be, to quote famous words, “recollected in tranquillity”. The romantic poets travelled considerably, both physically and mentally, and I will try to address the two forms of journey in this paper, since I believe that imaginary excursions colour our view of ...

POET: The Online Preference Elicitation Tool

If the goal of eliciting accurate user preferences over a com­ plex value space is to be realized, the elicitation process must be through while at the same time not overly burdensome to the user. An ideal preference elicitation tool would max­ imize the information about preferences acquired from the user while minimizing the number of queries required. To this end, we present POET: the Online...