In this position paper, we argue Ibr the need for a generation system to represent communicative goals (i.e., goals that express the speaker's intent to aflect the bearer's mental attitudes), at least if certain tasks are to be achieved. We lurther argue that, wlfile rhetorical relations might be recoverable t tom other Iactors, they appear to be a useful level of abstraction to maintain about ...

curve and technical problems with implementation early in use. Surveys show that physicians and staffmembers believe that theAWS improvescommunication, teamengagement,patient safety, and compliancewith Surgical Care Improvement Project measures. Future goals for the AWS at our facility include tracking nearmisses to improve patient safety and staff educationopportunities,developingastructuredfe...

Scott Sehon argues for a complex view about the relation between commonsense psychology and the physical sciences.1 He rejects any sort of Cartesian dualism and believes that the common-sense psychological facts supervene on the physical facts. Nevertheless he asserts that there is an important respect in which common-sense psychology is independent of the physical sciences. Despite supervenien...

The Information Ecology project at DSTC is constructing a Social Portal. This article explains what we mean by a Social Portal, what user needs we believe we are serving by building one, what research goals we think we are serving and how we intend to go about it.

This article is a commentary on remarks made in a recent book [12] that perpetuate several myths about Brouwer and intuitionism. The footnote on page 279 of [12] is an unfortunate, historically and factually inaccurate, blemish on an otherwise remarkable book. In that footnote, in which Ok discusses Brouwer (who, incidentally, was normally known not as “Jan” but as “Bertus”, a shortening of his...

This paper responds to a number of criticisms of Dempster-Shafer theory made by Judea Pearl. He criticises Dempster-Shafer belief for not obeying the laws of Bayesian belief," however, these laws lead to well-known problems in the face of ignorance, and seem unreasonably restrictive. It is argued that it is not reasonable to expect a measure of belief to obey Pearl's sandwich principle. The sta...

Two representative samples of adult Norwegians (n=2000) were asked a set of general and specific questions regarding their beliefs and opinions about human memory. The results indicate that on many questions, such as time of the earliest memories, inhibiting effects of collaboration, and memory for dramatic versus ordinary events, the views of the general public concurred with current research ...

Mailing address: Ferenc Follath • Steering Group for Drug Therapy University Hospital, Office HAL 16/18, D2 Raemistr. 100, CH 8091 Zürich – Switzerland E-mail: [email protected] Acute cardiac decompensation in patients with a pre-existing chronic heart failure is frequent, but its optimal management remains a controversial issue. Treatment depends on the precipitating cause, such as myocard...

In this paper, we examine the issue of memory management in the parallel execution of logic programs. We concentrate on non-deterministic and-parallel schemes which we believe present a relatively general set of problems to be solved, including most of those encountered in the memory management of or-parallel systems. We present a distributed stack memory management model which allows flexible ...