Between World Borders:

Borders and Objects : Representing the Geopolitical in New World

Imagine a world without borders: an immunologist's thoughts on Brexit

D id you know that the mafia was started in Sicily as a civil organization to protect the interests of local business from foreign governments far away on the Continent? Does this sound familiar to those who voted for Brexit? Yet, the mafia morphed into an ugly monster fueled by fear, hatred, greed, and a thirst for power. The Allies revived the organization after World War II because they had ...

The Structure of Borders in a Small World

Territorial subdivisions and geographic borders are essential for understanding phenomena in sociology, political science, history, and economics. They influence the interregional flow of information and cross-border trade and affect the diffusion of innovation and technology. However, it is unclear if existing administrative subdivisions that typically evolved decades ago still reflect the mos...

Analyzing Borders Between Partially Contradicting Fuzzy Classification Rules

Fuzzy classification rules allow the definition of readable and interpretable rule bases. Nevertheless, the shape of the resulting class borders of fuzzy classification rules depends to a great part on the used tnorm and t-conorm and can sometimes even be counter-intuitive. In this paper we discuss the shape of class borders between overlapping rules under consideration of different t-norms and...

Blurring the Borders between Object Composition, Inheritance, and Delegation

Object-oriented languages come with pre-defined composition mechanisms, such as inheritance, object composition, or delegation, each characterized by a certain set of composition properties, which do not themselves individually exist as abstractions at the language level. However, often non-standard composition semantics is needed, with a mixture of composition properties, which is not provided...