The social contract has been about rights and responsibilities in human societies. Facebook and its role in manufacturing and sustaining a global social contract, a new “we” is clearly one of the research areas that needs more attention. A new “we” is coming of age in the new age of connectivity and communication with a new outlook toward responsibility and rights at individual and collective l...

SUSTAIN (Supervised and Unsupervised STratified Adaptive Incremental Network) is a network model of human category learning. This paper extends SUSTAIN so that it can be used to model unsupervised learning data. A modified recruitment mechanism is introduced that creates new conceptual clusters in response to surprising events during learning. Two seemingly contradictory unsupervised learning d...

The authors of Linguistic Bodies appeal to shared know-how explain the social and participatory interactions upon which linguistic skills agency rest. However, some issues lurk around notion require attention clarification. In particular, one issue concerns agent behind know-how, a second whether can be reducible individual or not. this paper, I sustain that there is no single answer first issu...

PURPOSE The aim of this paper is to investigate how waiting lists or queues could be reduced without adding more resources; and to describe what factors sustain reduced waiting-times. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH Cases were selected according to successful and sustained queue reduction. The approach in this study is action research. FINDINGS Accessibility improved as out-patient waiting list...

Numerous proposals have been put forward concerning the nature of human category representations, ranging from rules to exemplars to prototypes. However, it is unlikely that a single, fixed form of representation is sufficient to account for the flexibility of human categories. In this chapter, we describe an alternative to these fixed-representation accounts based on the principle of adaptive ...