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A Resource-Sensitive Account of the Use of Artifacts (Extended Abstract)
"... ABSTRACT The aim of this abstract is to introduce a formal framework enabling to reason about resource-sensitive uses of artifacts. To achieve this, we integrate (non-normal) modalities into Intuitionistic Linear Logic. The function of an artifact is a (resource-sensitive) linear implication and we ..."
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that they are designed by some agent in order to achieve a goal in a particular environment. An important aspect of the modelisation of artifacts is their interaction with the environment and with the agents that use the artifact to achieve a specific goal Language and sequent calculus IMLL. The language of IMLL LIMLL
First Supervisor: Dr. Huib Aldewereld Second Supervisor: Dr. Neelke Doorn
, 2014
"... As this master thesis marks the end of my studies at Delft University of Technology, I would like to use this opportunity and thank everyone who has influenced my two-year journey. Those last two years have not been easy. In fact, it has been the most challenging, stressful, and at the same time- th ..."
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- the most inspiring, productive, and exciting journey. Journey, which has completely changed my life and has prepared me for new challenges and opportunities. I owe a very special debt to the ex president of Georgia – Mikheil Saakashvili, for initiating a scholarship program for Georgian students abroad
A Challenging Example Background to Qualitative Decision Theory
"... s This article provides an overview of the field of qualitative decision theory: its motivating tasks and issues, its antecedents, and its prospects. Qualitative decision theory studies qualitative approaches to problems of decision making and their sound and effective reconciliation and integratio ..."
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of preference have been studied in the philosophical literature; see, for example, It has recently occurred to many members of the AI community that multiattribute utility, developed in works such as The extra analysis induced by partial formulations is not a mere artifact of the formalism because one can
Genes, Causation and Intentionality
"... Abstract I want to exhibit the deeper metaphysical reasons why some common ways of describing the causal role of genes in development and evolution are problematic. Specifically, I show why using the concept of information in an intentional sense in genetics is inappropriate, even given a naturalis ..."
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metaphor She has published a monumental study trying to show that information language in genetics is a product of the military technology of the Cold War period, in particular cybernetics and cryptography. This is an interesting historical claim, but it turns critically on the assumption that genetic
Engaging Technology: A Missing Link in the Sociological Study of Human Knowing and Acting.” Qualitative Sociology Review, Vol. V Issue 2. Retrieved Month, Year (http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/archive_eng.php)
, 2009
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"technology" to refer more exclusively to physical or material artifacts (and especially more complex pieces of equipment), technology always has a conceptual, intentioned or purposive dimension. Consequentially, every instance of technology achieves its fullest meaning when envisioned