The Logic of Priorities

The Logic of Priorities
Author: Thomas L. Saaty
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2013-11-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 940173383X

This book presents applications of the Analytic Hierarchy Process developed by Thomas L. Saaty to deal with unstructured decision problems, together with case histories developed by him and in collaboration with others in areas of current societal concern. Its purpose is to provide the reader with examples of how to deal with unstructured problems, particularly ones involving socio economic and political issues with qualitative and intangible factors. These examples show how to use judgment and experience to analyze a com plex decision problem by combining its qualitative and quantitative aspects in a single framework and generating a set of priorities for alternative courses of action. The process has inherent flexibilities in structuring a problem and in taking diverse judgments from people, whether singly, in a group working together, or by questionnaire. Decisionmakers will profit from this approach. It makes accessible to them a framework for understanding the complexity of the system they are in as it impinges on the surrounding environment. To deal with complexity, we must first understand it. Systems thinking is necessary if all the important factors are to be considered. Complex systems problems can challenge and tax our logical capability to fully understand their causes and the consequences of any action we may take to solve them. Neverthe less, in time their effects on us tend to become better known than their causes.

The Priority of Propositions. A Pragmatist Philosophy of Logic

The Priority of Propositions. A Pragmatist Philosophy of Logic
Author: María José Frápolli
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2023-02-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3031252292

This monograph is a defence of the Fregean take on logic. The author argues that Frege ́s projects, in logic and philosophy of language, are essentially connected and that the formalist shift produced by the work of Peano, Boole and Schroeder and continued by Hilbert and Tarski is completely alien to Frege's approach in the Begriffsschrift. A central thesis of the book is that judgeable contents, i.e. propositions, are the primary bearers of logical properties, which makes logic embedded in our conceptual system. This approach allows coherent and correct definitions of logical constants, logical consequence, and truth and connects their use to the practices of rational agents in science and everyday life.

ECAI 2002

ECAI 2002
Author: Frank Van Harmelen
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 774
Release: 2002
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781586032579

This volume contains the 137 papers accepted for presentation at the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI '02), which is organized by the European Co-ordination Committee on Artificial Intelligence.

Priority of Events

Priority of Events
Author: Sean Bowden
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2011-08-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0748650776

This is a radical interpretation of Deleuze's Logic of Sense. It focuses on Deleuze's concept of events and brings Deleuze's work into relation with the traditions of process philosophy and American pragmatism.

The Alignment Performance Link in Purchasing and Supply Management

The Alignment Performance Link in Purchasing and Supply Management
Author: Christian Baier
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2008-08-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 383499751X

Christian Baier empirically investigates the alignment-performance link in PSM. His findings provide clear guidance to practitioners on how to design their purchasing strategies and practices to achieve maximum alignment and thus effectively contribute to the firm’s competitive advantage.

The Logic of Legal Requirements

The Logic of Legal Requirements
Author: Jordi Ferrer Beltrán
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2012-09-13
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0191637688

When a legal rule requires us to drive on the right, notarize our wills, or refrain from selling bootleg liquor, how are we to describe and understand that requirement? In particular, how does the logical form of such a requirement relate to the logical form of other requirements, such as moral requirements, or the requirements of logic itself? When a general legal rule is applied or distinguished in a particular case, how can we describe that process in logical form? Such questions have come to preoccupy modern legal philosophy as its methodology, drawing on the philosophy of logic, becomes ever more sophisticated. This collection gathers together some of the most prominent legal philosophers in the Anglo-American and civil law traditions to analyse the logical structure of legal norms. They focus on the issue of defeasibility, which has become a central concern for both logicians and legal philosophers in recent years. The book is divided into four parts. The first section is devoted to unravelling the basic concepts related to legal defeasibility and the logical structure of legal norms, focusing on the idea that law, or its components, are liable to implicit exceptions, which cannot be specified before the law's application to particular cases. Part two aims to disentangle the main relations between the issue of legal defeasibility and the issue of legal interpretation, exploring the topic of defeasibility as a product of certain argumentative techniques in the law. Section 3 of the volume is dedicated to one of the most problematic issues in the history of jurisprudence: the connections between law and morality. Finally, section 4 of the volume is devoted to analysing the relationships between defeasibility and legal adjudication.

Nuclear Power Plants: Innovative Technologies for Instrumentation and Control Systems

Nuclear Power Plants: Innovative Technologies for Instrumentation and Control Systems
Author: Yang Xu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2020-01-07
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811518769

This book presents a compilation of selected papers from the Fourth International Symposium on Software Reliability, Industrial Safety, Cyber Security and Physical Protection of Nuclear Power Plant, held in August 2019 in Guiyang, China. The purpose of the symposium was to discuss inspection, testing, certification and research concerning the software and hardware of instrument and control (I&C) systems used at nuclear power plants (NPP), such as sensors, actuators and control systems. The event provides a venue for exchange among experts, scholars and nuclear power practitioners, as well as a platform for the combination of teaching and research at universities and enterprises to promote the safe development of nuclear power plants. Readers will find a wealth of valuable insights into achieving safer and more efficient instrumentation and control systems.