The present study compares two cases of blending between episodes: blending of episodes that share a number of elements (superficially similar episodes) and blending of episodes that share the same structure of relations but do not share the same elements. According to classic theories and models of blending, superficially similar episodes are more likely to be blended because there is a larger...

We address the problem on how newly invented concepts are evaluated with respect to a background ontology of conceptual knowledge so as to decide which of them are to be accepted into a system of familiar concepts, and how this, in turn, may affect the previously accepted conceptualisation. As technique to tackle this problem we explore the applicability of Paul Thagard’s computational theory o...

The blending process of raw coal‘s being sold to power plants is a optimization process of pursuing the cost minimization under certain constraints. Among all intelligent algorithms solving those kinds of optimization problems, Particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is relatively a better choice. This paper describes the improvement of the PSO by turning single-objective optimization probl...

In this paper, the connection between metaphor, metonymy, blending and humour is discussed against an analysis of puns in print advertisements featuring both visual and verbal elements. The analysis is based on the theory of conceptual blending (Fauconnier and Turner 1994, 1996 etc.) and on analyses of humour within that framework made by Coulson (1996, 2001, in press), but it also draws on obs...

This paper is focused on the tactical design of steel supply chain (SSC). A general mathematical model is proposed to integrate production and transportation planning in multi-commodity SSC. The main purpose is to prepare a countrywide production and distribution plan in an SSC with three layers consisting of iron ore mines as suppliers, steel companies as producers, and subsidiary steel compan...

Motion blending is a widely used technique for character animation. The main idea is to blend similar motion examples according to blending weights, in order to synthesize new motions parameterizing high level characteristics of interest. We present in this paper an in-depth analysis and comparison of four motion blending techniques: Barycentric interpolation, Radial Basis Function, K-Nearest N...

In this paper, speech recognition techniques are applied to automatically evaluate children’s phonemic awareness through three blending tasks (phoneme blending, onset-rhyme blending and syllable blending). The system first applies disfluency detection to filter out disfluent phenomena such as false-starts, sounding out, self-repair and repetitions, and to localize the target answer. Since most ...

By introducing the edge-based blending function derived from the surface-based one, we can capture the e ects of the edges on the shape of the n-sided patch more directly. Because of the good natures of the edge-based blending function, the designers can manipulate it as well as the geometry of the boundary curves to design and modify the patch shape. In this paper, we have discussed the deriva...

We investigate the influence of blending on the Cepheid distance scale. Blending leads to systematically low distances to galaxies observed with HST, and therefore to systematically high estimates of the Hubble constant H0. We select a sample of 43 long-period, large-amplitude Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud, from the catalog recently released by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experim...

The application of chaotic advection to polymer blends and composites originated in the corresponding author’s laboratory in 1991. Research has resulted in smart blending devices now being adopted by industry. In the accompanying talk, key concepts and recent results are described where polymer melt components are more controllably formed in situ into a wide variety of blend morphologies and wh...