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Item Metadata only 2001: Odissea nello spazio (2001: A Space Odyssey)(Marsilio Editori, 2019) Krämer, PeterThis essay examines some of the letters in which American cinemagoers described, and sometimes explained, their (largely positive) experiences with Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey to the filmmaker. It also explores the ways in which the film had been presented to prospective audiences in the United States in the run-up to, and during, its initial release in 1968. How did publicity and advertising prepare people for the film? What expectations did they raise, and how might these expectations have shaped viewers’ engagement with 2001? How does the film work with, and against, audience expectations?Item Metadata only 3D Sound Simulation over Headphones(Information Science Reference, 2009) Picinali, LorenzoItem Metadata only 8M and the Huelga General Feminista, 2019-2020: feminist engagement with state, capital and Spain’s ‘clase política’(Routledge, 2021-11) Price, StuartThis illustrated chapter analyses the political character and contested ‘thematic framing’ of Spain’s Huelga General Feminista, a multi-faceted protest/labor event organized since 2017 on International Women’s Day (Campillo, 2019: 253; Comisión Feminista, 2019). In the course of this discussion, I follow the Spanish practice of marking the political significance of an occasion by combining its numeric designation with the letter of the month. In this case, International Women’s Day appears as ‘8M’ (8 March), while the organized withdrawal of industrial/domestic labor associated with 8M is, for the sake of convenience, called Huelga General Feminista (HGF), though in interviews, the organizers of these events tend to refer to the ‘Feminist Strike’, while the state-owned broadcaster RTVE1 identified the day as ‘8M: Huelga General’.Item Metadata only A Framework of Directed Network Based Influence-Trust Fuzzy Group Decision Making(Springer Nature, 2023-08-17) Kamis, Nor Hanimah; Kilicman, Adem; Kadir, Norhidayah A.; Chiclana, FranciscoDaily life requires individuals or groups of decision-makers to engage in critical decision-making processes. Fuzzy set theory has been integrated into group decision-making (GDM) to address the ambiguity and vagueness of expert preferences. Social Network Group Decision Making (SNGDM) is a newly emerging research area that focuses on the use of social networks to facilitate information exchange and communication among experts in GDM. Moreover, Social Influence Group Decision Making (SIGDM) has been initiated, which considers social influence as a factor that can impact experts’ preferences during interactions or discussions. Studies in this area have proposed innovative measurements of social influence, including the use of trust statements to explicitly influence experts’ opinions. In this study, a new trust index called TrustRank is proposed, which acts as an additional weightage of experts’ importance and is embedded in the influence network measure that represents the strength of the expert’s influence degree. These values are then utilized as the order-inducing variable in the IOWA-based fusion operator to obtain the collective preference and ranking of alternatives. The proposed framework, which is the directed network-based Influence-Trust Fuzzy GDM, is presented along with its implementation, results, and discussion to showcase its applicability.Item Metadata only A Fuzzy Prescreening Tool to Assist in the Diagnosis of High Functioning Individuals on the Autism Spectrum Who Present with Mental Health Comorbidities(Springer Nature, 2024-05-19) Smith, Philip; Greenfield, SarahAutism Spectrum Disorder is a neurological developmental disorder that effects at least 1% of the population, the majority of cases are high functioning individuals who struggle to get positive diagnoses that are vital to obtain community support. In this study, we have created and tested a Fuzzy Inferencing System to support clinicians, psychologists, family members and relevant stake holders to increase the chances for high functioning individuals to get a referral for full assessment to determine an autism diagnosis.Item Metadata only “’A New Hope’: From American Graffiti to Star Wars”(University Press of Kentucky, 2024) Krämer, PeterThis chapter takes a 1973 interview with George Lucas, who was about to release his first major hit movie, American Graffiti, as a starting point for a series of reflections on my own engagement from the 1990s onwards with the filmmaker's career and the move towards something one might want to call Lucas Studies; on the overall trajectory and underlying logic, but also the improbabilities, of Lucas's career up to the late 1970s; and in particular on numerous factors helping to shape his most successful movie, Star Wars (1977). I discuss trends in public opinion in the United States and in US box office charts as well as Lucas's astute perception of these trends, which led to his focus on fantasy and optimism in developing Star Wars.Item Metadata only 'Above and Beyond Everyday Life': the rise and fall of Rank's contract artists of the 1950s(Routledge, 2017-02) Chibnall, S.This article deals with the way in which Britain's largest film studio used the artists' contract system during the 1950s. It examines how film stars were trained and promoted and explains the decline of both Rank as a production company and its roster of contacted artists at the end of the decade.Item Metadata only Item Embargo Acaso e arte computacional: Tensões entre irregularidade e ordem(Editora Intermeios, 2016-07-01) Poltronieri, Fabrizio AugustoThis text deals with the role of chance in a theoretical manner, presents some images produced computationally from a set of algorithms that rely on chance. It also introduces, briefly, the production of the art group [+zero] (www.maiszero.org), composed of four Brazilian artists and researchers who create computer art from indeterminate situations based on the philosophical concept of play.Item Embargo Acaso, poesia e arte computacional: Traduções híbridas a partir da Teogonia de Hesíodo(F10 Editora, 2016-01-20) Poltronieri, Fabrizio AugustoThis short text briefly presents the “Visual Theogonies”, a piece of software developed in Ruby that create images which have no external index, i.e. are the result of pure random mathematical manipulation of a given set of data contained within the computer memory. These are a collection of images derived from chance and produced within a playful context. The term “Theogonie” is borrowed from a poem written by the Greek Hesiod in the late eighth century BC. The poem regards the birth of the Greek gods, and therefore the pictures carry the subtitle “images of the computational god”. In this case, however, the gods are transmuted by the will of computational algorithms governed by chance.Item Metadata only Accountability and reflective responsibility in information systems.(Springer, 2006) Stahl, Bernd Carsten, 1968-Item Metadata only Activity Recognition: Approaches, Practices and Trends(Atlantis Press, 2011-05-05) Chen, Liming; Khalil, I.Activity recognition has attracted increasing attention as a number of related research areas such as pervasive computing, intelligent environments and robotics converge on this critical issue. It is also driven by growing real-world application needs in such areas as ambient assisted living and security surveillance. This chapter aims to provide an overview on existing approaches, current practices and future trends on activity recognition. It is intended to provide the necessary material to inform relevant research communities of the latest developments in this field in addition to providing a reference for researchers and system developers who are working towards the design and development of activity-based context aware applications. The chapter first reviews the existing approaches and algorithms that have been used for activity recognition in a number of related areas. It then describes the practice and lifecycle of the ontology-based approach to activity recognition that has recently been under vigorous investigation. Finally the chapter presents emerging research on activity recognition by outlining various issues and directions the field will take.Item Metadata only Adaptation XXX(Oxford University press, 2017) Hunter, I. Q.Item Metadata only Adaptive Cruise Control Using Fuzzy Logic(Springer, Cham, 2021-05-05) Lloyd, Nathan; Khuman, A. S.Modern transportation undoubtedly provides a plethora of beneficial qualities; qualities that not only dramatically improve the efficiency and speed of travel, but also provide materialistic comforts for the inhabitants of the vehicle. Whilst these advancements have generally improved the quality of life for users, it begs the question: can modern technologies be utilized to augment vehicles further? This chapter will engage intelligent transportation systems (ITS), specifically automatic cruise control (ACC) and the utilization of fuzzy inference systems (FIS), analyzing their successful implementation, posing a bespoke system and how the ITS field can be improved further.Item Metadata only An adaptive multi-mode downloading partitioning algorithm of distributed virtual environment based on grid computing.(IEEE, 2007) Wang, Yuying; Li, Hongmei; Jia, JinyuanWhen users are connected to a Large Scale distributed virtual environment system on internet, downloading speed is a key point to support a life-like world and real time interactions for a large number of avatars in a consistent fashion. We proposed an adaptive multi-node downloading partitioning algorithm to balance the bottleneck problem on multi- node downloading architecture we designed. It facilitates a flexible and scalable downloading large scale DVE. Our method has five major steps: (1) to build up a database by partitioning the ground of a DIE into two-dimensional square regions covered with three-dimensional objects uniformly; (2) to determine statically a region where an avatar's area of interest located according to its spatial coherence; (3) to group the grid nodes located on same region in DVE; (4) to build a downloading servers group within each region and adapt it dynamically; (5) to balance the downloading workload dynamically. A specific multi-node downloading component is devised for supporting remote multi-thread downloading DVE based Globus platform. The downloading speed is proportional to the number of grid nodes participated in the downloading task in each region. Initial experimental results show the feasibility and effectiveness of our approach.Item Embargo Adaptive mutation using statistics mechanism for genetic algorithms(Springer, 2004) Yang, ShengxiangIt has long been recognized that mutation is a key ingredient in genetic algorithms (GAs) and the choice of suitable mutation probability will have a significant effect on the performance of genetic search. In this paper, a statistics-based adaptive non-uniform mutation (SANUM) is presented within which the probability that each gene will subject to mutation is learnt adaptively over time and over the loci. As a search algorithm based on mechanisms abstracted from population genetics, GAs implicitly maintain the statistics about the search space through the population. SANUM explicitly makes use of the statistics information of the allele distribution in each gene locus to adaptively adjust the mutation probability of that locus. To test the performance of SANUM, it is compared to traditional bit mutation operator with a number of “standard” fixed mutation probabilities suggested by other researchers over a range of typical test problems. The results demonstrate that SANUM performs persistently well over the range of test problems while the performance of traditional mutation operators with fixed mutation probabilities greatly depends on the problem under consideration. SANUM represents a robust adaptive mutation operator that needs no prior knowledge about the fitness landscape of the problem being solved.Item Metadata only After laughter comes tears: passion and redemption in This is England '88.(Edingburgh University Press., 2013) Murphy, R. P.Item Metadata only Afterword: New Wave, New Hollywood, New Research(Bloomsbury Academic, 2021-09-23) Krämer, PeterThis chapter reviews the wealth of recent English language publications on American cinema of the late 1960s and 1970s, and situates the work presented in the edited collection for which it serves as an afterword within this literature. The chapter highlights some of the new approaches to the study of this period in American film history which have been taken in this literature and in this collection (to do for example with the role of women and ethnic groups not only in films but also in the industry, with production histories and personnel other than directors) and outlines perspectives for future research. These concern, for example, Reception and Audience Studies, the study of film exhibition, distribution and marketing (during and beyond a film's original theatrical release in the US), of production companies and film finances, of canon formation and teaching in the US and elsewhere.Item Metadata only Agent based evolutionary dynamic optimization.(Springer-Verlag., 2010) Yan, Yang; Yang, Shengxiang; Wang, Dazhi; Wang, DingweiItem Metadata only Agent-based modelling in grey economic systems(Springer, 2023-02-05) Delcea, Camelia; Yang, Yingjie; Liu, Sifeng; Cotfas, Liviu-AdrianThe economic systems are basically grey systems due to their components and to their interactions which enable the occurrence of uncertainty. First, the human component plays an important role as a consequence of its usually unpredictable and sometimes irrational behavior, a situation strictly related to the way the humans are thinking and acting. From here, it can easily be demonstrated that when analyzing a system, we are facing grey knowledge. This kind of knowledge exists and it represents that small piece of puzzle needed to successfully fill the gap separating the explicit knowledge form the tacit one, also conducting to uncertainty.