This paper describes a framework for practical reasoning in the presence of norms. We describe a formal normative model constructed using Action-based Alternating Transition Systems. This model is able to represent goals; obligations and prohibitions and their violation; and permissions, which are used to derogate the former. Inspired by Atkinson’s scheme for practical reasoning, we utilise arg...

Information about the student in student model is the basis for virtual learning environments to provide the necessary adaptation. Cognitive Trait Model (CTM) profiles the student based on cognitive traits, such as his/her working memory capacity and inductive reasoning ability. Performance-based adaptation can guide the student to the required concept, whereas cognitive support serves to preve...

The growing of multimedia data has caused a corresponding growth in the need to analyze and to exploit it. In this paper, we propose to extract knowledge from the whole kind of multimedia data and to bring up a collaborative fuzzy data mining process where each kind of data helps to extract a global knowledge.

The width of an interconnect line affects the total power consumed by a circuit. A trade off exists between the dynamic power and the short-circuit power dissipated in inductive interconnect. The optimum line width that minimizes the total transient power dissipation is determined in this paper. A closed form solution for the optimum width with an error less than 5% is presented. For a specific...

Philosophers writing about the ravens paradox often note that Nicod’s Condition (NC) holds given some set of background information, and fails to hold against others, but rarely go any further. That is, it is usually not explored which background information makes NC true or false. The present paper aims to fill this gap. For us, “(objective) background knowledge” is restricted to information t...

This study aims at investigating the effectiveness of modified inductive learning compared with deductive learning of English grammar among foreign language students. In order to achieve this purpose, two classes in Year Nine in a secondary school in Sweden were taught using the two different methods. An initial grammar test determined that the students struggled with word order, which as a res...

In this paper we survey some results in inductive inference showing how learnability of a class of languages may depend on the hypothesis space chosen. Additionally, optimal hypothesis spaces, usable for every learnable class, are considered. We also discuss results which consider how learnability is effected if one requires learning using every suitable hypothesis space.

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