art is a way to provide distance from the intense affect associated with the disaster, and a way to work around and through the natural defenses that arise when trying to link affect with cognition. the ability to create art about the threatening thoughts and feelings channels the child’s energy into the art, or into a positive task, which then can be explored safely. if these thoughts can be e...

art is one of the important events of human's life and should be systematically deduced [from the islamic tradition]. the subject of art may be investigated in jurisprudence [the islamic law] in two ways: with a general view and disregarding art works, or focusing on special cases. it is important, in the general view, to deduce the first and main principle [of islam] in this regard. accor...

A technique is presented for line art rendering of scenes composed of freeform surfaces. The line art that is created for parametric surfaces is practically intrinsic and is globally invariant to changes in the surface parameterization. This method is equally applicable for line art rendering of implicit forms, creating a unified line art rendering method for both parametric and implicit forms....

Random Testing (RT) is an important and fundamental approach to testing computer software. Adaptive Random Testing (ART) has been proposed to improve the faultdetection capability of RT. ART employs the location information of successful test cases (those that have been executed but not revealed a failure) to enforce an even spread of random test cases across the input domain. Distance-based AR...

The trade-off between exploration and exploitation has often been discussed in studies on reinforcement learning (RL). This is because exploration and exploitation influence the quality of solutions and the learning efficiency respectively. Previously, we have proposed an adaptive state space segmentation method based on ART neural network (ART) to execute RL effectively. However, if the explor...

Creative activities including arts are characteristic to humankind. Our understanding of creativity is limited, yet there is substantial research trying to mimic human creativity in artificial systems and in particular to produce systems that automatically evolve art appreciated by humans. We propose here to model human visual preference by a set of aesthetic measures identified through observa...