Hans Wolfgang Sachs (1912–2000)

Andreas Büchter und Hans-Wolfgang Henn: Elementare Stochastik - Eine Einführung in die Mathematik der Daten und des Zufalls

1. Zielsetzung An Einführungen in die Stochastik ist kein Mangel. Deshalb begründen die beiden Autoren im Vorwort und in einem einleitenden Kapitel ausführlich ihre Absichten und erläutern, wie sie diese realisieren wollen. Elementar soll das Werk sein, d.h. „mit den grundlegenden Ideen, Zusammenhängen und Ergebnissen der Statistik und der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung vertraut machen“, ohne dass...

Wolfgang Wahlster

In face-to-face conversation humans frequently use deictic gestures parallel to verbal descriptions for referent identification. Such a multimodal form of communication is of great importance for intelligent interfaces, because it simplifies and speeds up reference to objects in a visual context. Natural pointing behavior is very flexible, but possibly ambiguous or vague, so that without a care...

Misconduct WOLFGANG

Internet and CD-ROMs are now important sources of scientific research. Obviously, these computerized tools complement and supplement libraries. For some they seem to replace libraries, and web presentations of published works are used as seemingly infinite resource of texts for term papers, examination work and even research papers. There is evidence that the use of modern information technolog...

Wolfgang Lenzen

0 Foreword The aims of this paper are (i) to summarize the semantics of (the propositional part of) a unified epistemic/doxastic logic as it has been developed at greater length in Lenzen [1980] and (ii) to use some of these principles for the development of a semi-formal pragmatics of epistemic sentences. While a semantic investigation of epistemic attitudes has to elaborate the truth-conditio...

Hans Arnold Heilbronn 1908-1975 Hans