We survey in this paper some variants of the notion of determinism, refining the spectrum between non-determinism and determinism. We present unambiguous automata, strongly unambiguous automata, prophetic automata, guidable automata, and history-deterministic automata. We instantiate these various notions for finite words, infinite words, finite trees, infinite trees, data languages, and cost f...

Reactive systems often require temporal and logical safety , concurrency and determinism. Several asynchronous or strong synchronous answers have been proposed to this problem. However, \asyn-chronous" languages such as CSP or CCS generally force the user to choose between determinism and concurrency. On the other hand, strong synchronous implementations are mainly sequential. The aim of this p...

According to the Consequence Argument, the truth of determinism plus other plausible principles would yield the conclusion that we have no free will. In this paper I will argue that the conception of determinism typically employed in the various versions of the Consequence Argument is not plausible. In particular, I will argue that, taken most straightforwardly, determinism as defined in the Co...

The purpose of this article is to develop theoretical framework for defining technology education (TE) goals. First, approaches technocratic determinism, the determinism nature, voluntarism and aestheticism have been considered within same framework. Second, four alternative definitions (Freenberg, 2007) applied these approaches. Instrumentalism emphasises learners’ creative product production....

The European Citizens’ Initiative is designed to make European democracy more direct by allowing citizens to propose (including electronically) legal acts to the Commission. The present paper offers a conceptual model for the analysis of this eParticipation case, and other similar e-petitioning practices, which is not biased by political ambition or technological determinism. The operational fr...

This paper compares groups of firms with different technological capabilities in Bangkok (Thailand), Penang (Malaysia) and Singapore in respect to their innovation activity, cooperation behaviour and assessment of the business environment. While conspicuous differences between the regions are found, the comparison of the different technological capabilitygroups is less conclusive. However, some...