60 research outputs found

    EG-ICE 2021 Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Engineering

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    The 28th EG-ICE International Workshop 2021 brings together international experts working at the interface between advanced computing and modern engineering challenges. Many engineering tasks require open-world resolutions to support multi-actor collaboration, coping with approximate models, providing effective engineer-computer interaction, search in multi-dimensional solution spaces, accommodating uncertainty, including specialist domain knowledge, performing sensor-data interpretation and dealing with incomplete knowledge. While results from computer science provide much initial support for resolution, adaptation is unavoidable and most importantly, feedback from addressing engineering challenges drives fundamental computer-science research. Competence and knowledge transfer goes both ways

    EG-ICE 2021 Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Engineering

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    The 28th EG-ICE International Workshop 2021 brings together international experts working at the interface between advanced computing and modern engineering challenges. Many engineering tasks require open-world resolutions to support multi-actor collaboration, coping with approximate models, providing effective engineer-computer interaction, search in multi-dimensional solution spaces, accommodating uncertainty, including specialist domain knowledge, performing sensor-data interpretation and dealing with incomplete knowledge. While results from computer science provide much initial support for resolution, adaptation is unavoidable and most importantly, feedback from addressing engineering challenges drives fundamental computer-science research. Competence and knowledge transfer goes both ways

    The literal/non-literal divide synchronically and diachronically: The lexical semantics of an English posture verb

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    This thesis' main research goal is to provide an account of the English posture verb sit, from a synchronic a diachronic perspective. My proposed account of sit comprises various components, including a characterisation of the different possible meanings of sit and a comparison with stand and lie. The two relevant meanings are a literal one and non-literal one (The girl is sitting on the chair vs. The wine bottle is sitting on the chair; in the former the subject is described to be in a sitting position, while in the latter the subject is not in a sitting position). I analyse each meaning/use separately, noting which semantic patterns occur with one type only and those which occur with both. I argue that the non-literal use is diachronically connected to the literal one, and I motivate this claim based on the shared components identified in the thesis and on data from corpus studies reported in the thesis. A consequence of acknowledging a divide between the literal and non-literal uses---a perspective not usually taken in theoretical linguistics---is that I am able to account for important semantic details which might be otherwise overlooked. The cognitive and typological literature includes account of posture verbs cross-linguistically, but in the theoretical literature these verbs have not received much attention. In this thesis, I review existing proposals and highlight the uncertainties surrounding the posture verbs. In order to fillthese gaps in the literature and to better understand the phenomena, I analyse data from synchronic and diachronic corpus studies, and incorporate these insights into my account of sitEl principal objetivo de investigación de esta tesis es dar cuenta del verbo de postura inglés sit (`sentarse¿), desde una perspectiva sincrónica y diacrónica. La descripción que propongo de sit comprende varios componentes, incluida una caracterización de los diferentes significados posibles de sit y una comparación con stand (`estar de pie¿) y lie (`estar echado¿). La literatura cognitiva y tipológica incluye una descripción de los verbos de postura de forma interlingüística, pero en la literatura teórica estos verbos no han recibido mucha atención. En esta tesis, reviso las propuestas existentes y destaco las preguntas sin responder que rodean a los verbos de postura. Para llenar estos vacíos en la literatura científica y comprender mejor los fenómenos, analizo datos de estudios de corpus sincrónicos y diacrónicos, e incorporo estos conocimientos en mi explicación de sit. Los dos significados relevantes son uno literal y uno no literal (The girl is sitting on the chair `La niña está sentada en la silla' vs. The wine bottle is sitting on the chair `(lit.) La botella de vino está sentada en la silla¿; en la primera frase, se describe el sujeto en posición de estar sentado, mientras que en la segunda frase el sujeto no está sentado). Analizo cada significado/uso por separado, notando qué patrones semánticos ocurren con un solo tipo y cuáles ocurren con ambos. Argumento que el uso no literal está conectado diacrónicamente con el literal, y motivo esta afirmación a partir de los componentes compartidos identificados en la tesis y en los datos de los estudios de corpus tratados en la tesis. Una consecuencia de reconocer una división entre los usos literales y no literales (una perspectiva que no suele adoptarse en la lingüística teórica) es que se consigue dar cuenta de importantes detalles semánticos que de otro modo podrían pasarse por alto

    Exhibition-Making and Political Imaginary : On Modalities and Potentialities of Curatorial Practice

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    The Ph.D. project concerns itself with curatorial practice, its constituent modalities and potentialities. It consists of both a practical and a theoretical part. These are not separate entities, but immersed in each other. The point of departure is my own practice, but making claims for a general analysis of the politics of exhibition-making. Rather than proving or disproving certain proposition, ideas will be presented as proposals, as possibilities, and investigated as such. The dissertation departs from a claim consisting of three features:1.That the making and staging of an exhibition has to do with the establishment of political imaginaries, as understood in the philosophy of Cornelius Castoriadis.2.That an exhibition, through its ensemble of various elements, creates a certain world-view of what it is possible to imagine, and thus, conversely, what cannot be imagined (from a presented vantage point). 3.That any practice of exhibition-making creates a world-view in different ways, and thus invoking different imaginaries. Exhibition-making is placed within the construction of a typology, and discussed in terms of a ‘conceptual history’, as proposed by Reinhart Koselleck in The Practice of Conceptual History. This approach is contrasted with Michel Foucault’s ideas of archeology and genealogy (mainly as in The Archeology of Knowledge). The thesis looks at contemporary modes of exhibition-making, including case-studies of my own work. These are two previous projects, Models of Resistance (2000), and Capital (It Fails Us Now) (2005-6). as well as two projects conceived as part of the Ph.D., Vectors of the Possible (2010) and All That Fits (2011). The dissertation proceeds through the following three analytic terms: I. Institution Institution are seen in both the philosophical terms of Castoriadis, as ways of instituting, and instituting social relations differently, as well as in terms of art’s institutions, in both the broad and narrow senses of the word. Notions as such institutional critique and new institutionalism will be considered, as well as biennales as a major form of instituting in contemporary art. II. Articulation Articulation is understood as that which combines or recombines the various elements, whether in an exhibition or politics proper. I shall argue, that the articulatory elements of exhibition-making must be brought to the foreground in order to contribute to a different political imagination, and thus instituting. The usage of articulation is also an examination of the speaking subject in curating, reflected through Judith Butler’s Giving an Account of Oneself, exemplified by the research exhibition All That Fits, that was based on readings of Foucault’s use of the term Parrhésia). III. Horizon. Finally, such positionings is seen in light of their political imagination, that is their world-view, and thus the philosophical notion of the horizon. The notion of the horizon will be proposed as a possible way in which to think the relationship between exhibition-making and political imagination anew. The exhibition Vectors of the Possible will be presented in tandem with the book and conference entitled On Horizons

    Safety and Reliability - Safe Societies in a Changing World

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    The contributions cover a wide range of methodologies and application areas for safety and reliability that contribute to safe societies in a changing world. These methodologies and applications include: - foundations of risk and reliability assessment and management - mathematical methods in reliability and safety - risk assessment - risk management - system reliability - uncertainty analysis - digitalization and big data - prognostics and system health management - occupational safety - accident and incident modeling - maintenance modeling and applications - simulation for safety and reliability analysis - dynamic risk and barrier management - organizational factors and safety culture - human factors and human reliability - resilience engineering - structural reliability - natural hazards - security - economic analysis in risk managemen
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