The hybrid aspect of cultures has been on the agenda of cultural and social studies as well as the arts for several years. From the perspective of the semiotician, cultures will necessarily be in continuous contact with a minimum of neighbours in order to enhance cultural semiosis, i.e., to make innovation and change possible. Otherwise, isolation would be in effect and limit a culture to its o...

In this article a special attention is paid to the to the role of public service broadcaster in cultural diversity societies. The main aims of the author was answering the following questions: how cultural pluralism is implemented by the public service broadcaster in Switzerland? How the Swiss PSB implements the principle of cultural pluralism, particularly in the context of the access of natio...

I present a language for specifying planning problems in which there are external events, that is, events beyond the direct control of the planner which may happen while a plan is being executed. The language is based on Miller and Shanahan’s representation of narratives in the situation calculus. I describe an implemented planner that produces correct plans for this language, and discuss how s...

Projection in the situation calculus refers to answering queries about the future evolutions of the modeled domain, while progression refers to updating the logical representation of the initial state so that it reflects the changes due to an executed action. In the general case projection is not decidable and progression may require second-order logic. In this paper we focus on a recent result...

The present article is intended to analyze the status of architectural education during two periodsbefore and after Cultural Revolution in Iran and in order to interpret approaches and paradigms, methods, and way of itsdevelopment thereby, it deals with criticism of current situation in the field of architectural education. For this purpose,it has been tried to separate different fields of quan...

successful advent to knowledge era requires that different structural, cultural, technological and human perquisites; the subject that has been neglected by many. hence, this research deals with identifying the needed cultural factors in according with knowledge management success in organization. the main question is: what are cultural factors in according to knowledge management success in or...

dada gorgood stories can be considered as parts of cultural history of the great tribes, turks (oghooz). these stories generally reflects the social situation of society in which as the result of tradition dominance on social affairs, it is located among the primitive societies with mechanical solidarity and in other words, among the communities with the natural will government. dada gorgood st...