We describe a general decomposition mechanism to express the derivation relation of a word rewriting system R as the composition of a (regular) substitution followed by the derivation relation of a system R′ ∪ D, where R′ is a strict sub-system of R and D is the Dyck rewriting system. From this decomposition, we deduce that the system R (resp. R) preserves regular (resp. context-free) languages...

We consider Boolean algebras endowed with a contact relation which are abstractions of Boolean algebras of regular closed sets together with Whitehead’s connection relation [17], in which two non-empty regular closed sets are connected if they have a non-empty intersection. These are standard examples for structures used in qualitative reasoning, mereotopology, and proximity theory. We exhibit ...

In this paper we define a congruence relation for regular terms of sPBC (stochastic Petri Box Calculus), by means of which we identify those processes that have the same behaviour, not only in terms of the multiactions that they can perform, but also taking into account the stochastic information that they have associated. In order to define this equivalence relation we have to define an adequa...

In this paper, we define hedge operation on a residuated skew lattice and investigate some its properties. We get relationships between some special sets as dense, nilpotent, idempotent, regular elements sets and their hedges.  By examples, we show that hedge of a dense element is not a dense and hedge of a regular element is not a regular. Also hedge of a nilpotent element is a nilpotent and h...

We construct effective Hamiltonians which despite their apparently nonrelativistic form incorporate relativistic effects by involving parameters which depend on the relevant momentum. For some potentials the corresponding energy eigenvalues may be determined analytically. Applied to two-particle bound states, it turns out that in this way a nonrelativistic treatment may indeed be able to simula...

Executive Overview Good to Great has been on BusinessWeek’s best-seller list since its October 2001 release. In Good to Great, author Jim Collins identified a set of 11 firms as great, then used them to derive five management principles he believed led to “sustained great results.” We contend that due to two fatal errors, Good to Great provides no evidence that applying the five principles to o...

Kleene algebra axioms are complete with respect to both language models and binary relation models. In particular, two regular expressions recognise the same language if and only if they are universally equivalent in the model of binary relations. We consider Kleene allegories, i.e., Kleene algebras with two additional operations and a constant which are natural in binary relation models: inter...

Kleene algebra axioms are complete with respect to both language models and binary relation models. In particular, two regular expressions recognise the same language if and only if they are universally equivalent in the model of binary relations. We consider Kleene allegories, i.e., Kleene algebras with two additional operations and a constant which are natural in binary relation models: inter...

The work presents a new method for the design of ideal secret sharing. The method uses regular mappings that are well suited for construction of perfect secret sharing. The restriction of regular mappings to permutations gives a convenient tool for investigation of the relation between permutations and ideal secret sharing generated by them.

A general formulation of the single machine scheduling problem with fuzzy parameters is proposed. Such notions as schedule, cost function and precedence relation are defined. The concept of f regular cost function is introduced and several properties of the class of problems with f -regular cost function are shown.