In this paper we describe two episodes of instructional interaction, in which examples are used in order to help students face their misconceptions. We introduce the notions of pivotal example and ...

Noûs, the ancient Greek term for intellect, or mind, is one of the premier philosophy journals today. In its commitment to a broad, pluralist, non-doctrinal approach, Noûs publishes high-quality ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Distributed constraint optimization problems are crucial for modeling cooperative-multiagent systems. Asynchronous Distributed OPTimization (ADOPT) is a well-known algorithm for solving ...