Abstract-Timely intelligent decision making is increasingly important for modern society. With the availability of big data and advanced artificial intelligence in decision making, more objective and evidence-based quantitative smart decisions can be made in a timely manner. This research proposed a big data based intelligent decision support system (B-IDSS) for sustainable business development. The system can be used by both the government agencies and corporate business (e.g. farms. mining) in advanced planning, collaboration and management. This paper also addresses the performance optimization as bilevel decision-making problem with one leader and multiple followers. An extended Kuhn-Tucker approach is introduced as one of the algorithms that can be adapted in the system.
In this paper I offer an analysis of Plotinus' argument for the existence of a quasi-psychic entity, the so-called 'trace of soul', that functions as an immanent cause of life for an organism's body. I argue that Plotinus posits this entity primarily in order to account for the body's possession of certain quasi-psychic states that are instrumental in his account of soul-body interaction. Since these quasi-psychic states imply that an organism's body has vitality of its own (a claim for which Plotinus also finds support in the Phaedo), and Platonic souls are no part or aspect of any body, Plotinus draws the conclusion that the soul must be a cause of the body's life by imparting a quasi-psychic qualification to it. In so doing, Plotinus introduces elements of hylomorphism into Platonist psychology, and addresses a problem for the animation of the body that Platonic soul-body dualism may plausibly be thought to face.
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