Several high level methodological debates among AI researchers, linguists, psychologists and philosophers, appear to be endless, e.g. about the need for and nature of representations, about the role of symbolic processes, about embodiment, about situatedness, about whether symbol-grounding is needed, and about whether a robot needs any knowledge at birth or can start simply with a powerful lear...

Despite its scientific and practical importance, relatively few studies have been conducted to investigate the relationship between job applicant mental abilities and faking. Some studies suggest that more intelligent people fake less because they do not have to. Other studies suggest that more intelligent people fake more because they have increased capacity to fake. Based on a model of faking...

Today Kazakhstan is a country with a very high level of literacy. The living standards and economy in the country are growing very rapidly. But the emergence of eLearning was held stable and haphazard. This is due to many factors later involvement in the process of society’s “informatization”, lack of attention to the development of distance and corporate learning. Meanwhile, e-Learning is impo...

In this paper we standardize, compare, and aggregate results from thirteen surveys of technology experts, performed over a period of five years using a range of different methodologies, but all aiming at eliciting expert judgment on the future cost of five key energy technologies and how future costs might be influenced by public R&D investments. To enable researchers and policy makers to use t...

Using data from approximately 30,000 individuals in over 30 countries, we find evidence that an individual’s pro-environment attitudes are positively associated with her level of civic cooperation. The relationship between civic cooperation and actual behavior is more complex. Civic cooperation increases the probability of belonging to or volunteering for an environmental group, but only among ...

Although there is no doubt that computers are highly capable to provide pupils with cognitive disabilities in learning we observe an immense lack of professional learning software for this target group. There are few products designed by special education teachers with a high level of instructional design but at a low technical level, unflexible and not adaptable. In contrast there are loads of...

We hypothesize that the degree of public attention influences the price level of stocks in a systematic way. We employ a simple discounted cash flow model with adverse selection and fixed transaction costs that determine an endogenous bid-ask-spread. In the model, rational and risk neutral investors incorporate future trading conditions into their price setting behavior. These trading condition...

Situation Analysis The goal of the development of the PCMHmodel is to provide a high level of care coordination, improve patient engagement, and focus on quality and improved patient outcomes. Although comprehensive and coordinatedmedicationmanagement is an integral component of the model, the inclusion of the pharmacist as a critical teammember is not always considered. Understanding the speci...

This work presents a hierarchical framework that generates continuous gesture animation performance for virtual characters. As opposed to approaches that focus more on realizing individual gesture, the focus of this work is on the relation between gestures as part of an overall gesture performance. Following Calbris’ work [3], our approach is to structure the performance around ideational units...