In this paper we present our preliminary investigation of rational agents who can learn from their experience. We claim that such agents need to combine at least three attributes – deductive reasoning based on currently possessed knowledge, inductive learning from their history, and awareness of passing time (including the necessity to commit computational resources to tasks which need to be ca...

This article shows how uninformed but rational voters can respond intelligently to political advertising. The article models a situation where a candidate must rely on a pressure group for financing political advertising and making endorsements. The pressure group uses its power over the purse to influence the position chosen by the candidate. Nevertheless, when uninformed voters use a strategi...

Contrary to my critics, voter irrationality does not imply that economists cannot mitigate political failure. With rational voters, reform-minded economists have few viable tactics; with irrational voters reformers have more options. Rational voters can be swayed only by facts and logic; irrational voters could respond to better rhetoric. Rational voters strategically punish those who ignore th...

The doctrine that Christ is really present in the Eucharist appears to entail that Christ’s body is not only multiply located but present in different ways at different locations. Moreover, the doctrine poses an even more difficult metaquestion: what makes a theological explanation of the Eucharist a ‘real presence’ account? Aquinas’s defence of transubstantiation, perhaps the paradigmatic acco...

This paper presents Student model implementation of Design Pattern’s intelligent tutoring system. To our knowledge there hasn’t been realized at least one intelligent tutoring system for learning Design Patterns. Some software tools, like Rational XDE have support for Design Patterns. There are many approaches and technologies for student modeling, but choosing the right one depends on the info...

In this position paper we raise the question of whether Connguration Management (CM) research has a future. The new standard in CM systems|typiied by commercial products such as Adele, ADC, ClearCase, Continuus/CM, and CCC/Harvest|largely satisses the CM functionality requirements posed by Dart. This implies that research in the area of CM is either unnecessary or that we must nd new challenges...

On the basis of fieldwork in Kinshasa, this essay makes a link between riots, recent anthropology “surplus populations,” and distributive politics low-income countries, especially Africa. Tracing history political demonstration turned riot, it shows how distribution structures interactions rich poor city. Situating riot context which subjects are dependent on market for goods but not able to se...

The article examines the aspects of improving ecological and economic mechanism balancing development horticulture in context environmental safety. It is substantiated that functioning ecological-economic management nature-use processes caused by need to create conditions for establishment an ecologically oriented way conducting activity subjects national economy. was determined influence state...

bubbles in asset prices have fascinated researchers in finance. identify asset bubbles, by circumstances, on the stock market has been a growing number of research theoretical and empirical. on a theoretical level, it was assumed that the price dynamics reflect irrational behavior of economic agents and, therefore, should be excluded from a deal with the truly rational economic agents burmeiste...

background: resistance to antimicrobial agents including aminoglycosides (ags) is a great concern that is mainly related to inappropriate use. since there were not adequate data regarding how rationally ags are being prescribed in our critically ill patients, this study was conducted to determine the main issues in the area of appropriate use of this antibiotic class.   methods: one hundred pat...