Recent experimental findings suggest that prescriptive norms influence causal inferences. The cognitive mechanism underlying this finding is still under debate. We compare three competing theories: The culpable control model of blame argues that reasoners tend to exaggerate the causal influence of norm-violating agents, which should lead to relatively higher causal strength estimates for these ...

The main objective of this thesis is to investigate how selected standards are applied within an industrial context and to suggest strategies to improve their application. This thesis focuses on the human part of large and complex systems. Humans are essential in any large and complex system, but their complexity makes it virtually impossible to fully predict their behaviour and impact on such ...

FLOPS is a forum for research on all issues concerning functional programming and logic programming. In particular, it aims to stimulate the crossfertilization as well as integration of the two paradigms. The symposium takes place about every 1.5 years in Japan. Previous FLOPS meetings were held in Fuji-Susono (1995), Shonan (1996), Kyoto (1998), and Tsukuba (1999). This special issue contains ...

Transportation infrastructure is of paramount importance for any country. The construction, management and maintenance this a complex task that requires significant amount resources (e.g., human work equipment, materials, costs). To better support task, in the last decades several Artificial Intelligence (AI) data analysis tools have been proposed. In paper, we summarize recent predictive presc...

Abstract In Germany, building codes relating to fire safety are mainly prescriptive nature. Therefore, engineering is based on a combination of expert judgment and reverse rules. This necessitates connect the given objectives with detailed rules—if not already described within law or bylaw. paper proposes table European regulations their German counterpart model code in Germany. addition, risk ...