Language Planning and Language Revival

Language planning

Language planning, in one way or another, is as old as human civilization. Every time that one polity  invaded  the  territory  of  another,  the  language  of  the  conqueror  was  imposed  on  the conquered. The Romans imposed their language across the civilized world as they  knew it. In the  21st  century,  the  practice  of  language  planning  has  become  increasingly  sophisticated. Eng...

Issues with Language Policy and Planning in Iranian Higher Education

In this study, we attempt to bring to light various organisational and implementational clashes relevant to the conceptualisation of language policies at national level, and the planning of local practices with regard to degree programmes, language journals and conferences in Iranian higher education. We also prove that in its current status, the ELT syllabus in Iran, both at national and local...

Language Planning: Theory and Practice

Language Planning and Design Automation

A development of aspects of the philosophies of Leibniz and Carnap in the direction of design automation.

A Multiagent Planning Language

This paper discusses specific features of planning in multiagent domains and presents concepts for a multiagent extension of PDDL, the Multiagent Planning Language MAPL (“maple”). MAPL uses non-boolean state variables and thus allows to describe an agent’s ignorance of facts as well as a simplified mutex concept. The time model of MAPL is based on Simple Temporal Networks and allows both quanti...