In June 1607, a Tuscan fleet of about twenty ships and two thousand hundred men attacked the fortress Famagusta in Cyprus, with aim making it base for subsequent occupation whole island, which had been Ottoman hands since 1570. The attack was total failure: fleet, divided into parts, did not meet as planned Greek inhabitants who according to information should have rebelled, not. Moreover, garr...

Group decision making plays an important role in today’s organisations. The impact of decision making is so high and complex, that rarely the decision making process is made individually. In Group Decision Argumentation, there is a set of participants, with different profiles and expertise levels, that exchange ideas or engage in a process of argumentation and counter-argumentation, negotiate, ...

Sound has been used for scientific investigation for many years; the stethoscope and the Geiger counter are just two examples. Sonification is a method of transforming data into sound. The listener can then explore the data sonically; this which? can reveal hidden structures and relationships not apparent through visualization. This paper discusses the advantages of sonification and introduces ...

In his essay, What about ‘information’?, Massimo Pigliucci (2011) makes an eloquent argument to counter the claims of supporters of intelligent design, who argue that the evolution of intelligence must have been guided by some supernatural force. But, in making his case, he states that “only humans and other relevantly similar conscious organisms have knowledge”. He is certainly not the only on...

Constrained counting is important in domains ranging from artificial intelligence to software analysis. There are already a few approaches for counting models over various types of constraints. Recently, hashing-based approaches achieve both theoretical guarantees and scalability, but still rely on solution enumeration. In this paper, a new probabilistic polynomial time approximate model counte...

The kitchen is a complex and dangerous multi-user work environment that can benefit from augmented reality techniques to help people cook more safely, easily and efficiently. We present Counter Intelligence, a conventional kitchen augmented with the projection of information onto its objects and surfaces to orient users, coordinate between multiple tasks and increase confidence in the system. F...

This paper describes a new measure for presence in immersive virtual environments (VEs) based on data that can be obtained unobtrusively during the course of a VE experience. At different times during an experience a participant will occasionally switch between interpreting the totality of sensory inputs as forming the VE or the real world. The number of transitions from virtual to real is coun...

This article describes how disrupting the activities of suspected violent extremists has become an increasingly significant construct in the policy and practice of the Prevent strand of UK Counter-Terrorism. Informed by empirical data collected during semi-structured interviews with police officers involved in conducting disruptions and members of the communities where these occurred, blended w...