How, and in what terms are we to understand people? In this cogent and wide-ranging discus-sion, Trevor Butt argues for an existential-phenomenological psychology. Early chapters offer an unusually clear, wide-ranging and careful consideration of approaches in which personality has been a key

our observations of the microblogging phenomena by studying the topological and geographical properties of Twitter’s social network. We find that people use microblogging to talk about their daily activities and to seek or share information. Finally, we analyze the user intentions associated at a

of people they contain and, further, that the people there are functions of an attraction-selection-attrition (ASA) cycle. The ASA cycle is proposed as an alternative model for understanding organizations and the causes of the structures, processes, and technology of organizations. First, the ASA framework

www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/R.Bowden ABSTRACT: This manuscript and associated talk gives an historical but not exhaustive overview of work in the Cognitive Vision Lab at the University of Surrey’s Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing. Work concentrates on people, tracking or identifying

Recommender systems are new types of internetbased software tools, designed to help users find their way through today’s complex on-line shops and entertainment websites. This paper describes a new recommender system, which employs a genetic algorithm to learn personal preferences

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In this paper we present Perseus, a purposive visual system used by our robot, CHIP, to locate objects being pointed at by people. Perseus uses knowledge about the task and environment at all levels of processing to more accurately and efficiently perform visual tasks. 1 Introduction One

in current computer technology. Ontologies provide a shared and common understanding of a domain that can be communicated between people and application systems. Therefore, they may play a major role in supporting information exchange processes in various areas. This book discusses the role ontologies