How do reasons combine? How is it that several reasons taken together can have a combined weight which exceeds the weight of any one alone? I propose an answer in mereological terms: reasons combine by composing a further, complex reason of which they are parts. eir combined weight is the weight of their combination. I develop a mereological framework, and use this to investigate some structur...

In this work we suggest an approach to comparing fuzzy numbers motivated by a probabilistic view of the underlying uncertainty. An important aspect of the method suggested is its context dependency, the numbers being compared a€ect the process. We discuss the e€ect of decision attitude and show that this approach is particularly useful for aiding decision makers having a temperate decision atti...

This is the first time the workshop on „Value-Sensitive Design of Internet-Based Services: Towards an Integration of Technology and Values” takes place as part of the German “INFORMATIK 2016” conference in Klagenfurt on September 29 2016. The workshop brings together researchers that deal with questions of value-sensitive design and delivery of Internet-based services from different disciplinar...

Although much has been written about TQM, little attention has been paid to the potential effects of contextual factors on TQM and TQM–performance relationships. The use of organizational theory to formulate propositions regarding the effects of such factors is especially scarce in the TQM literature. This study uses institutional theory and contingency theory as the basis to test a number of s...

Jelölje [n] az {1, 2, ..., n} halmazt, 2[n] pedig [n] összes részhalmazát. Vegyünk egy F ⊂ 2[n] halmazrendszert. |F| maximumát keressük, ha bármely r részhalmaz metszete legalább s elem¶, és bármely ` különböz® halmaz metszete legfeljebb t elem¶, a paraméterek különféle vásztása mellett. Az r = 2, s = t = 1 esetben, tehát amikor bármely két halmaz metszete nemüres, de bármely ` különböz® halmaz...

The problem of composing a system using well-behaved components is discussed. Specifically, necessary conditions for preserving the behaviour in a system context are analysed in this paper. Such conditions are defined as Context-Dependent Constraints (CDC). A non-formal approach is taken based on common system integration errors. It is suggested that the identification and verification of CDCs ...

Merlin is a collaborative concept map that enables students to discuss their ideas. The agent in Merlin aims to monitor the students’ content of discussion in order to provide context-sensitive help.

Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 Department of Genetics, Rutgers, The...

Previous research has demonstrated an effect on pro-environment behaviours such as household recycling from communicating social norm information to respondents. In this paper, we extend this work by considering the effects of varying (i) the absolute size (strength) of the norm (ii) its geographic scope (iii) whether the norm is stated in relative terms. We also show how previous behaviours in...

Extended Abstract This paper offers three candidates for a deterministic, noninterleaving, behaviour model which generalizes Hoare traces to the noninterleaving situation. The three models are all proved equivalent in the rather strong sense of being equivalent as categories. The models are: deterministic labelled event structures, generalized trace languages in which the independence relation ...