fairy tales are stories in which metaphysical, paranormal and mysterious events take place and there is no exact time and place; everything is spiritual. the lorestanian story of “daughter of daal” is a tale of the “mythical birth” of a girl from an egg and her being raised by daal (phoenix) in the cave of a caucasus-like mountain. daughter of daal is snared by a hireling hellcat’s deceit, but ...

The story of the ox and oxherd, separate at first, but united in the realization of the inner unity of all existence, is an old Taoist story, updated and modified by a twelfth century Chinese Buddhist master to explain the path to enlightenment. The ox symbolizes the ultimate, undivided reality, the Buddha-nature, which is the ground of all existence. The oxherd symbolizes the self, who initial...

We present a graphic novel project aiming at illustrating current research results and issues regarding the creative process and its relation with artificial intelligence. The main character, Max Order, is an artist who symbolizes the difficulty of coming up with new, creative ideas, giving up imitation of others and finding one’s own style.

We study rank aggregation algorithms that take as input the opinions of players over their peers, represented as rankings, and output a social ordering of the players (which reflects, e.g., relative contribution to a project or fit for a job). To prevent strategic behavior, these algorithms must be impartial, i.e., players should not be able to influence their own position in the output ranking...

The interpretation of the film In Mood for Love carried on from perspective female characters: intersection between Su and Chow’s wife, moreover, cultural identities, which symbolizes Hong Kong culture that was bred grew intersection: different backgrounds assimilated in each other.