An agent's limited view of the state of a distributed system may render globally different situations indistinguishable. A proposition is local for this agent whenever his view suffices to decide this proposition. Motivated by a framework for the development of distributed programs from knowledge-based specifications, we introduce a modal logic of local propositions, in which it is possible to ...

the religious testaments and presentday statements on human personality. The schism is only partly due to the need for specialisation of knowledge, and even as late as the twelfth century Moses Maimonides, living in Spain and writing in Arabic, was physician, philosopher, mathematician, and biblical commentator. The ghettos in Central Europe, in contrast, were created in a culture which separat...

In this study we compare two machine translation devices on twelve machine translation medicaldomain specific tasks, and two transliteration tasks, altogether involving twelve language pairs, including English-Chinese and English-Russian, which do not share the same scripts. We implemented an analogical device and compared its performance to the state-of-the-art phrase-based machine translation...

Review article of:
 Moses Maimonides, Dux neutrorum vel dubiorum, pt. I, ed. Diana Di Segni, Peeters, Leuven 2019 (Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales, Bibliotheca, 17, 1).

Here, social network analysis approaches are used to characterize the figure of the biblical Moses, and his relationship with characters from the books of the Pentateuch; Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. The potential value of using such quantitative approaches is explored in relation to other forms of textual exegesis. Using a maximum likelihood approach, the degree distrib...

In comparing the Code of Hammurabi with the Pentateuchal laws the fact of the priority of the Code (by well over 300 years) has disposed of some untenable theories and given rise to others. For instance, the old critical view that detailed codes of laws like those found in the Pentateuch are anachronistic for so early a period has been exploded by the discovery. Again, higher critical views whi...