Notions relating to computational systems exhibiting creative behaviours have been
explored since the very early days of computer science, and the field of Computational …

An extensive update to a classic text Stochastic geometry and spatial statistics play a
fundamental role in many modern branches of physics, materials sciences, engineering …

This article develops a model for analyzing social identity and applies it to the political
economy of income redistribution, focusing on class and national identities. The model …

This is a book about the meanings of words and how they can combine to form larger
meaningful units, as well as how they can fail to combine when the amalgamation of a …

Heroism represents the ideal of citizens transforming civic virtue into the highest form of civic
action, accepting either physical peril or social sacrifice. While implicit theories of heroism …

A new and wide-ranging empirical overview of party policy in 47 modern democracies,
including all of the new democracies of Eastern Europe. It updates and radically extends …

The main objective of this thesis is to contribute to the theory of Conceptual Modeling by
proposing ontological foundations for structural conceptual models. Conceptual Modeling is …