<p><p>The book is an authoritative collection of contributions by leading experts on the topics of fuzzy logic, multi-valued logic and neural network. Originally written as an homage to Claudio Moraga, seen by his colleagues as an example of concentration, discipline and passion for science, the boo

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning, LPNMR 2017, held in Espoo, Finland, in July 2017. The 16 full papers and 11 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submiss

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Jay Haley once said, "The only reasonable excuse for adding another theory of hypnosis to the many that have been proposed is an entirely new approach to the problem." In Of One Mind, Douglas Flemons demonstrates that he has an eminently reasonable excuse. With the casual grace of an entrancing stor

Antulio J. Echevarria II reveals how successive generations of American strategic theorists have thought about war. Analyzing the work of Alfred Thayer Mahan, Billy Mitchell, Bernard Brodie, Robert Osgood, Thomas Schelling, Herman Kahn, Henry Eccles, Joseph Wiley, Harry Summers, John Boyd, William L

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This book is concerned with the connection between the formal structure of agency and the formal structure of genocide. The contributors employ philosophical approaches to explore the idea of genocidal violence as a structural element in the world.<br /><br />Do mechanisms or structures in nation-st

<span>Far from merely recycling what we already know about certain paradoxes, this book breaks entirely new ground by providing what everyone REALLY wants: solutions. The king of all paradoxes is the Liar ('This statement is false.' If it is true, it is false; if it is false, it is true), which in i

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