This note is a friendly amendment to Marti’s analysis of the failure of Føllesdal’s argument that modal distinctions collapse in Carnap’s logic S2. Føllesdal’s argument turns on the treatment of descriptions. Marti considers how modal descriptions, which Carnap banned, might be handled; she adopts an approach which blocks Føllesdal’s argument, but requires a separate treatment of non-modal desc...

Register and local memory allocation are two important optimizations performed during compilation. The former optimization maps the variables of a program to either machine registers or main memory locations. The latter one maps arrays to either local memory or main memory locations. Recent work in register allocation leverages the complexity and performance bene ts of decoupling its allocation...

Moving a crowd of robots or avatars from their current configurations to some destination area without causing collisions is a challenging motion-planning problem because the high degrees of freedom involved. Two approaches are often used for this type of problems: decoupled and centralized. The tradeoff of these two approaches is that the decoupled approach is considered faster while the centr...

We address the problem of multidimensional modal estimation using sparse estimation techniques coupled with an efficient multigrid approach. Modal dictionaries are obtained by discretizing modal functions (damped complex exponentials). To get a good resolution, it is necessary to choose a fine discretization grid resulting in intractable computational problems due to the huge size of the dictio...

This paper deals with the state estimation of nonlinear systems. Our approach is based on the representation of a nonlinear system with the help of a decoupled multiple model. This kind of multiple model constitutes an alternative to the classic Takagi-Sugeno multiple model. Indeed, in opposition to this last, in the decoupled multiple model the dimension (i.e. the number of states) of the subm...

Decoupled communication has proven to be a powerful paradigm for the development of applications in the context of open distributed environments. We hav e developed the Object Space approach which integrates that communication style with object-oriented techniques. It allows encapsulation of protocols for interactions in a distributed application into classes, thus providing a new lev el of abs...