A sensible quality is a perceptible property, a property that physical objects (or events) perceptually appear to have. Thus smells, tastes, colors and shapes are sensible qualities. An egg, for example, may smell rotten, taste sour, and look cream and round.1,2 The sensible qualities are not a miscellanous jumble—they form complex structures. Crimson, magenta, and chartreuse are not merely thr...

it is widely held that although very few works by muslim philosophers deal exclusively with art and beauty, nonetheless specific discussions on these subjects can be extracted from their works. this is certainly true in the case of qadi said qummi, who gives a separate treatment of art and beauty in his commentary on the fourth chapter of the uthulojia (the theology of aristotle). the essential...

The concept of Privacy-Preserving has recently been proposed in response to the concerns of preserving personal or sensible information derived from data mining algorithms. For example, through data mining, sensible information such as private information or patterns may be inferred from non-sensible information or unclassified data. As large repositories of data contain confidential rules that...

In theorizing about perception, philosophers have often multiplied qualities. To perceptible qualities of external objects, like colors and shapes (‘sensible’ qualities), have been added qualities of experiences (‘sensory’ qualities) or of sense-data (‘sensational’ qualities). Start with sensory qualities. The phrase ‘sensory quality’ is not much in use these days, having lost out to ‘phenomena...

This paper investigates the problem of identifying participants in online discussions whose contribution can be considered sensible. Sensibleness of a participant can be indicative of the influence a participant may have on the course/outcome of the discussion, as well as other participants in terms of persuading them towards his/her stance. The proposed sensibleness model uses features based o...

Visual Understanding of Complex Structures through Causal Analysis Matthew Brand, Lawrence Birnbaum, and Paul Cooper Northwestern University The Institute for the Learning Sciences 1890 Maple Avenue, Evanston IL 60201 [email protected] Abstract An important result of visual understanding is an explanation of a scene's causal structure: How action|usually motion|is originated, constrained, and p...

Delivering QoS in large scale networks is an important issue. We introduce sensible routing networks. In these networks, the packets make self-routing decisions based only on local information. Hence, the amount of information is independent of the size of the network. Sensible routing allows QoS goals for large scale networks to be met with less transmission overhead than active routing algori...