Is More Rigorous Research on “Open Dialogue” a Priority?

Call for more rigorous research on savant syndrome

Research on savant syndrome is fascinating. Some otherwise retarded individuals, often autistic people, show extraordinary feats; e.g., music, calculation, and drawing. Unfortunately, many reports on savant syndrome lack rigor, and some were even questioned about their credibility. I have pointed out such flaws before [1-3], thus there is no need to repeat them here. Pointing out flaws in other...

More rigorous results on the NK model

Making GIScience research more open access

This special issue is special not just because of the emerging theme of data-intensive geospatial computing, and but also in the sense that all the data and source codes used in the papers are made freely available. In the initial call for papers (http://fromto.hig.se/~bjg/ijgis/), authors were encouraged to consider the option of support materials for archiving data and video clips. With the e...

Strategic Argumentation in Rigorous Persuasion Dialogue

Philosophical dialogue games have been used widely as models for protocols in multi-agent systems to improve flexibility, expressiveness, robustness and efficiency. However, many dialogue games are effectively based on propositional logic, which is not always sufficiently expressive for artificial reasoning. In particular they do not allow for a strong connection between computational models of...

Towards A More Rigorous Boresight Calibration

This work focuses on the stochastic properties of boresight determination between a strapdown IMU and a framebased imaging sensor. The core of the stochastic model is a rigorous error propagation of the estimated input accuracies and their correlations. This subsequently yields more realistic estimates of boresight accuracy for every image event. The nature of INS/GPS integration makes the resi...