by JOHN DILWORTH Western Michigan University [Theoria 2006.4: 299-318.] Abstract What is the relation between a perceptual experience of an object X as being red, and one's belief, if any, as to the nature of that experience? A traditional Cartesian view would be that, if indeed object X does seem to be red to oneself, then one's resulting introspective belief about it could only be a conformin...

As energy becomes a driving force in High Performance Computing, determining when and how energy can be saved without impacting performance is a key goal for both HPC hardware and software. Scalability studies have shown that some memorybound applications do not scale as the thread count increases, and in some cases performance degrades. Adaptive Scheduling recognizes when an application is in ...

Coordination games typically possess multiple Nash equilibria, some of which are preferred by one or more players. Coordination on desired equilibria can be facilitated by communication, repetition, and introspection.

We introduce and study a unified reasoning process which allows to represent the beliefs of both a fully rational agent and an unaware one. This reasoning process endows introspection and unawareness with natural properties. The corresponding model for the rational or boundedly rational agents is easy both to describe and to work with, and the agent’s full system of beliefs has natural descript...

We distill Penrose’s argument against the “artificial intelligence premiss”, and analyze its logical alternatives. We then clarify the different positions one can take in answer to the question raised by the argument, skirting the issue of introspection per se.

User support which takes into account the user's current context is a key issue of ambient intelligence applications. In this contribution we address the question of how a user may configure and keep control of situated user support. Background of our work is a system, which creates an augmented, personal memory from events perceived in an instrumented environment. We show how the user may –ass...

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A multitude of theoretical models and constructs has been used to investigate individual behavior. We have now reached a point where the IS discipline requires cohesive guidance to make sense of such a large number of theoretical considerations but also to assist future research in identifying theories that have the potential to shed some new light to understand individual behaviour. The aim of...

A mong earthly organisms, humans have a unique propensity to introspect or look inward into the contents of their own minds, and to share those observations with others. With the ability to introspect comes the palpable feeling of " knowing, " of being objective or certain, of being mentally in control of one's thoughts, aware of the causes of one's thoughts, feelings, and actions, and of makin...