MEJ scope 2021

EMBL Programme 2017-2021: Digital Biology

The Scope of Man's Free Will

Scope & Outline

Parasitic scope

I propose the first strictly compositional semantic account of same. New data, including especially NP-internal uses such as two men with the same name, suggests that same in its basic use is a quantificational element taking scope over nominals. Given type-lifting as a generally available mechanism, I show that this follows naturally from the fact that same is an adjective. Independently-motiv...

Supporting Concurrent Design in Scope Supporting Concurrent Design in Scope

Concurrent design can be viewed as processes of collaboration, coordination and co-decision making within and between cross-functional teams. Based on this view we argue that an appropriate integration of information sharing and activity synchronization approaches is necessary and beneficial for a concurrent design support environment. This paper investigates support for defining a set of coord...