Humeanizing Kant's Aesthetics

KANTS: Artifical Ant System for Classification

This paper investigates a new model that takes advantage of the cooperative self-organization of Ant Algorithms to evolve a naturally inspired pattern recognition (and also clustering) method. The approach considers each data item as an ant that changes the environment as it moves through it. The algorithm is successfully applied to well-known classification problems and yields better results t...

Engineering Aesthetics and Ergo-Aesthetics:

Human factors researchers and practitioners have been focusing research attention on the easeof-use, productivity, safety, comfort, and effectiveness aspects of product and system design. This article argues that it is time that we add another important dimension to the fields of human factors research and practice—the aesthetic dimension. This article discusses the need for the establishment o...

Darwinian Aesthetics Informs Traditional Aesthetics

KANTS – A Stigmergic Algorithm for Data Clustering and Swarm Art

KANTS is a swarm intelligence algorithm [1], proposed in [10, 2] for data clustering and classification. The term KANTS derives from Kohonen Ants, since the algorithm was partially inspired by Kohonen’s Self-Organizing Maps [9]. The method was also based on Chialvo and Millonas’ Ant System [6] and its working mechanisms are very similar to that model. However, differences in the local rules and...

[ ] 1 Aesthetics

There is perhaps no more vexing, fraught, and neglected concept in the study of children's literature than aesthetics. No doubt the neglect of a serious, theoretical inquiry into the aesthetics of children's literature stems from our contemporary understandings of the discipline of children's literature itself. The study of children's literature has, historically, been the work of librarians an...