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The Conflict of Rigidity and Precision in Designation [PDF]
My paper provides reasons in support of the view that vague identity claims originate from a conflict between rigidity and precision in designation. To put this stricly, let x be the referent of the referential terms P and Q.
Bertini, Daniele
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A Three–Level Aggregation Model for Evaluating Software Usability by Fuzzy Logic
Rapid deployment of IT brings about new issues with software usability measurement. Usability is based on users’ experience and is strongly subjective, having a qualitative character. The users’ comfort is usually collected by surveys in their daily work.
Eva Rakovská, M. Hudec
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How founders' values enable business model innovation in new ventures: The case of Magnum Photos
Abstract Research Summary This study explores why and how founders' values lead them to design novel business models. To address these questions, we conducted a historical case study of Magnum Photos, a photo agency whose novel business model revolutionized magazine photography in the mid‐20th century.
Anastasia Sergeeva, Christoph Zott
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Application of the fuzzy logic in content-based image retrieval
This paper imports the fuzzy logic into image retrieval to deal with the vagueness and ambiguity of human judgment of image similarity. Our retrieval system has the following properties: firstly adopting the fuzzy language variables to describe the ...
Wang Xiaoling, Xie Kanglin
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Neutrosophic Logic for Software Effort Estimation: An Improvement over Fuzzy Logic
Software effort estimation is big and active research area. Software effort estimation is useful for time and efforts required to perform a particular task. But, it is very rare to estimate the effort with high level of reliability.
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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Vagueness is something everyone is familiar with. In fact, most people think that vagueness is closely related to language and exists only there. However, vagueness is a property of the physical world.
B Kosko+13 more
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Moral Communities in a Race Status Negotiation: A Dorm Room Urination Case
In 2022, at a South African university, a white student was filmed urinating on the belongings of a black student. Although race was invoked as an a priori account for this incident, we demonstrate how race is made visible and relevant by participants in the interaction through an attempted, yet resisted, status degradation ceremony.
Catherine L. Tam, Daniella Rafaely
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A hybrid-fuzzy-decision-making framework for digital technologies selection
In the era of Industry X.0, manufacturers are increasingly adopting digital technologies such as robotics, big data, mobile communications, and information technology to enhance productivity and profitability.
Youssef Lamrani Alaoui+3 more
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Using fuzzy logic to handle the semantic descriptions of music in a content-based retrieval system [PDF]
This paper explores the potential use of fuzzy logic for semantic music recommendation. We show that a set of affective/emotive, structural and kinaesthetic descriptors can be used to formulate a query which allows the retrieval of intended music.
Leman, Marc, Lesaffre, Micheline
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