Armenian aorist and imperfect endings

Endings and Beginnings

533 " [Everything] has to come to an end, sometime. " L. Frank Baum The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) 1 As our regular readers know, this is a very special issue of College & Research Libraries. It is the last one that we will print. Beginning with the first issue of volume 75 (January 2014), this journal will join many others in being published solely in digital form. The road to this decision h...

A Technical Overview of the AORIST Project

The nonlinearity of negotiation-based resource allocation can lead to complex system-level dynamics, which we are studying using an abstract model. As expected, we have been able to extend this model to approximate the critical conditions of specific negotiation systems. In addition, we are amassing evidence that the dynamics of this model may be intrinsic to resource allocation in general, rel...

AORIST: Identifying Dynamic Behavior in ANTs

Multi-agent systems are particularly appropriate for resource allocation, but configuring them for efficient operation requires understanding their dynamics. Concepts from statistical physics, such as phase transitions, can help. In decision problems such as constraint satisfaction, such transitions exhibit an easy-hard-easy effort profile, so that highly overconstrained problems are easier to ...

Endings and beginnings

At the start of a new year it is time to look back over the past 12 months, as well as to look forward. 2015 has been one with a sad farewell to two very good friends, Dr Howard Jones Jr (see Fact Views Vis Obgyn, 2015, 7:149-152) and Professor Jan van der Merwe whose obituary appears in this issue. The past year has seen some very interesting and stimulating papers, not to forget about the mos...

The Armenian Energy Sector: Power and Politics