It is commonly acknowledged that we need to accept and handle uncertainty when reasoning with real world data. The most profoundly studied measure of uncertainty is the probability. However, the general feeling is that probability cannot express all types of…

Belief Revision systems are logical frameworks to modeling the dynamics of knowledge. That is, how to modify our beliefs when we recieve new information. The main problem arises when the information is inconsistent with beliefs that represents our epistemic state.…

For most of us, the home is considered to be our castle: when we close the doors, it is our equivalent to pulling up the drawbridge, thereby retreating from the outside world. But more often, there is no retreat from…

This article explores the stylistic devices and narrative techniques that the late 19th-century
great American satirist employed to subvert and ridicule his contemporaries'
understanding of language and of its relationship to reality. According to Bierce, language
is not merely a…

Inside an organization there is information that can only be generated by people, then, when a decision maker in any time and anywhere of an organization requires this information, he/she has to solicit it to who has the ability of…

Abstract:
This paper analyzes the reasons for
the marginalization of feminist thought in the interdiscipline
of communication studies and elucidates the potential contributions
of this approach to social communication theorizing.


Résumé:
Cet article fait l'analyse des causes
de…

The tools for fault impact analysis are important for the deployment of critical mission systems. These tools can be also used as a development phase aid. We introduce several concepts related to "business alarms". Business alarms are an approximation to…

Abstract:
Located in the
context of discussion in urban British Columbia as to whether
contemporary First Nations art should properly be referred to
as ``art'' in the Western sense or whether it is, rather, the repository
and communicator of culturally…

Abstract:
There is a certain parallel between arguments
about the decline of the public sphere and the decline of the
university today. Both institutions are said to be increasingly
fragmented and politicized. In this paper, I mobilize Nancy Fraser's
alternative…

Abstract:
Recently, Canadian university campuses
have begun to display signs of increasing corporate influence
in their affairs. In spite of the recent appearance of these
signs, the foundation was laid in the early 1980s for this increasing
corporate influence through…