We consider a model of daily newspapers’ competition to test the validity of the so called “theory of the circulation spiral”. According to it, the interaction between the newspapers and the advertising markets drives the newspaper with the smaller readership into a vicious circle, finally leading it to death. In a model with two newspapers, we show that, contrary to this conjecture, the dynami...

This paper presents an hybrid neurosymbolic system composed of three levels, contrary to the majority of other hybrid systems which only consists of two levels, one symbolic and one neural. By using more levels we gain simple interfaces , more modularity, a better task sharing between the components of the hybrid system. Our supplementary level is based on rule translation into a neural network...

We propose a modular framework for robust 3D reconstruction from unorganized, unoriented, noisy, and outlierridden geometric data. We gain robustness and scalability over previous methods through an unsigned distance approximation to the input data followed by a global stochastic signing of the function. An isosurface reconstruction is finally deduced via a sparse linear solve. We show with exp...

Modularity refers to the use of common units to create product variants. As companies strive to rationalize engineering design, manufacturing, and support processes and to produce a large variety of products at a lower cost, modularity is becoming a focus. However, modularity has been treated in the literature in an abstract form and it has not been satisfactorily explored in industry. This pap...

According to the ‘grammatical account’, scalar implicatures are triggered by a covert exhaustification operator present in logical form. This account covers considerable empirical ground, but there is peculiar pattern that resists treatment given its usual implementation. The centers on odd assertions like #Most lions mammals and #Some Italians come from beautiful country, which seem trigger co...