OBJECTIVE Probing consciousness in noncommunicating patients is a major medical and neuroscientific challenge. While standardized and expert behavioral assessment of patients constitutes a mandatory step, this clinical evaluation stage is often difficult and doubtful, and calls for complementary measures which may overcome its inherent limitations. Several functional brain imaging methods are c...

Notions of predication based on extensional and intensional subsumption, as described by Woods, are related to Kahneman’s systems of thinking fast and slow. Path-based reasoning with links is applied to predication over not only individuals but (following Carlson) kinds and stages/time. Predications, fast and slow, are formulated in monadic secondorder logic over strings, analyzed in Goguen and...

The estimation of the classifier error plays a key role in accuracy-based learning classifier systems. In this paper we study the current definition of the classifier error in XCSF and discuss the limitations of the algorithm that is currently used to compute the classifier error estimate from online experience. Subsequently, we introduce a new definition for the classifier error and apply the ...

1 Définir l’ontologie locale Une ontologie locale est définie l’ontologie du domaine, articulée à cette dernière par la relation de subsumption par : Spécialisation des sous-ensemble de classes de l’ontologie de domaine recouvrant les besoins du cahier de charges et par importation sélective des propriétés pertinentes. Enrichissement de l’ontologie locale pour répondre aux objectifs applicatifs...

Demo. We demonstrate Argos, a framework to automatically generate data processing workflows. First, we show how to assign formal semantics to data and operations using to a domain ontology. Specifically, we define data contents using relational descriptions in an expressive logic. Second, we show a novel planner that uses relational subsumption to connect the output of a data processing operati...

Where do the bottlenecks for information and attention lie when our visual system processes incoming stimuli? The human visual system encodes the incoming stimulus and transfers its contents into three major memory systems with increasing time scales, viz., sensory (or iconic) memory, visual short-term memory (VSTM), and long-term memory (LTM). It is commonly believed that the major bottleneck ...

The phylotypic stage is the developmental stage at which vertebrates most resemble each other. In this study we test the plausibility of the hypotheses of Sander [1983, Development and Evolution, Cambridge University Press] and Raff [1994, Early Life on Earth, Columbia University Press; 1996, The Shape of Life, University of Chicago Press] that the phylotypic stage is conserved due to the inten...