Foundations of Artiicial Intelligence presents a number of chapters from major players in artiicial intelligence (AI) that discuss fundamental assumptions underlying the dominant approaches to AI today. Perhaps the best parts of the book are the critiques: each chapter is followed by an in-depth critique that evaluates the utility of those assumptions in pursuing the goal of AI. But what is the...

Complex negotiations are done by people and often carried out in pursuit of culturally ingrained ideas such as international unity or national sovereignty. As such, they may be subject to the sorts adaptive biases reasoning heuristics that present at level individual collective decision making. The following commentary applies an influential model intuitive ethics, Moral Foundations Theory, Bre...

The basic step in the substructure approach based on discretization of the soil medium for the soil–structure interaction problems is to determine the impedance functions which are defined as the complex dynamic-stiffness coefficients of the soil-footing system are used in the analysis of foundations vibrations. In this study, the discrete values of impedance functions over wide ranges of frequ...

The nonlinear static bending analysis of microplates resting on imperfect Pasternak elastic foundations is carried out in this paper. finite element method based the modified couple stress theory used to derive formulations. present and mathematical model are validated by comparisons work’s results with those other reputable publications, which show a very good agreement. influences length-scal...

This paper discusses foundations of conventional style of rule mining in which rules are extracted from a data table. Rule mining mainly uses the structure of a table, data partition, but two different approaches are observed: divide and conquer and covering: the former focuses on the nature of data partition and the latter does on the nature of information granules. This paper illustrates that...