Merging membranes

Further remarks on P systems with active membranes, separation, merging, and release rules

The P systems are a class of distributed parallel computing devices of a biochemical type. In this note, we show that by using membrane separation to obtain exponential workspace, SAT problem can be solved in linear time in a uniform and confluent way by active P systems without polarizations. This improves some results already obtained by A. Alhazov, T.-O. Ishdorj. A universality result relate...

Disjunctive merging: Quota and Gmin merging operators

When aggregating information from a group of agents, accepting the pieces of information shared by all agents is a natural requirement. In this paper, we investigate such a unanimity condition in the setting of propositional merging. We discuss two interpretations of the unanimity condition. We show that the first interpretation is captured by existing postulates for merging. But the second int...

Declarative Belief Set Merging Using Merging Plans

We present a declarative framework for belief set merging tasks over (possibly heterogeneous) knowledge bases, where belief sets are sets of literals. The framework is designed generically for flexible deployment to a range of applications, and allows to specify complex merging tasks in tree-structured merging plans, whose leaves are the possible belief sets of the knowledge bases that are proc...

Effect of Merging Angle on Turbulent Mixing Layers

Mind - Merging

We focus on highly multimodal depictions of multi-party meetings (US Air Force war gaming sessions). The data we code are eclectic—chains of linguistic co-reference, gaze deployments, ‘F-formations’ (a category from Kendon), and parses of turn management, floor control, coalition formation and conflict. The concept of a hyperphrase ties all the threads together; the idea of a growth point is th...