This paper is an informal and preliminary investigation of how in a logical framework we might account for how we come to have a large, complex system of conditional desires. I try to show how work that has been done in the formalization of causal reasoning might be adapted to show how this is possible.

The current management of the Delta is unsustainable for almost all stakeholders. 2. Recent improvement in the understanding of the Delta environment allows for more sustainable and innovative management. 3. Most users of Delta services have considerable ability to adapt economically to risk and change. 4. Several promising alternatives exist to current Delta management. 5. Significant politica...

Initially, this study indicated that DAIP staff could work with other professionals in the community to develop and implement an assessment protocol that would enable these professionals to identify a higher percentage of women who were experiencing domestic violence. The results reported in Section A indicated that EAP counselors significantly increased the percentage of women clients identifi...

The main objective of this thesis was to develop and analyse a PSO-based MOA for DMOO. However, in order to determine whether the algorithm efficiently solves DMOOPs, benchmark functions are required that are representative of typical real-world problems. Furthermore, performance measures are required to quantify the performance of the algorithm. Chapter 3 provided a comprehensive overview of b...

Technical integration The need for technical integration is quite important. The technical compatibility should be in place for the whole range of tools for translation translation memory, machine translation and term bases. It is the responsibility of the vendors to ensure compatibility by applying standards. Official standards being scarce, pragmatic standards should be agreed upon and adhere...

This chapter will summarize the results obtained in the thesis, point out possible applications and directions for future research. The chapters will be treated in order of apparence if possible (some topics aaect more than one chapter). The introduction treats model-based coding, which is a technique to code image sequences at very low rates. The focus is set on face sequences, where two unre-...

Inspired by the profound effortlessness (but also the substantial carelessness) with which humans seem to draw inferences when given even only partial information, we consider a unified formal framework for computational cognition, placing our emphasis on the existence of naturalistic mechanisms for representing, manipulating, and acquiring knowledge. Through formal results and discussion, we s...

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.