Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG) is a formalism for defining the inventory of lexical and grammatical conventions that language processing requires and the operations with which this inventory is used to parse and produce sentences. This chapter introduces some of the key ideas and basic design principles behind the development of Fluid Construction Grammar.

German case syncretism is often assumed to be the accidental by-product of historical development. This paper contradicts this claim and argues that the evolution of German case is driven by the need to optimize the cognitive effort and memory required for processing and interpretation. This hypothesis is supported by a novel kind of computational experiments that reconstruct and compare attest...

Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG) is an open-source computational grammar formalism that is becoming increasingly popular for studying the history and evolution of language. This demonstration shows how FCG can be used to operationalise the cultural processes and cognitive mechanisms that underly language evolution and change.

With the evolution of the Internet from a controlled research network to a worldwide social and economic platform, the initial assumptions regarding stakeholder cooperative behavior are no longer valid. Conflicts have emerged in situations where there are opposing interests. Previous work in the literature has termed these conflicts tussles. This article presents the research of the SESERV proj...

Im Rahmen des Projektes SmartAgriFood, eines EU-Projektes im „Future Internet Public Private Partnership“-Programm, wurde eine Übersicht zu Standards für den Datenaustausch in der Landwirtschaft und der Lebensmittelkette zusammengestellt. Es wurden 35 Standards oder Gruppen von Standards hinsichtlich Anwendungsbereichen und Technologien untersucht und abschließend Empfehlungen zu Nutzung, Entwi...

Having recognized the Internet functional and architectural properties as well as its design principles the query becomes whether the Future Internet shall be built between the "evolutionary approach" and the "clean slate approach". Some assumption that it is not capable to resolve the challenges facing today's Internet without rethinking the basic assumptions and desig...

The Internet is one of the most successful modern technologies; we cannot imagine what our lives would be without the Internet. Despite the huge success of the Internet, many problems such as shortage of IP addresses, insufficient security and performance have emerged because of the increasing worldwide Internet population. Furthermore, the technologies developed to incrementally solve the abov...

In recent years, many research efforts have focused on building experimentation platforms where structural changes to future Internet can be implemented and tested. GENI, instantiated by its prototype implementations, e.g. ProtoGENI, is a notable example of such systems. In this document, we present the PrimoGENI approach; which aims to augment the GENI suite of interoperable infrastructure to ...

We present a theory of object-orientation on the basis of the re-nement calculus. This theory allows for specifying the behaviour of objects and provides a calculus for the proof of relationships between classes such as reenement. Given two similar, but not identical classes, we present an algorithm to construct a common superclass which is reened by both classes, and an algorithm to construct ...

This paper describes how object-oriented software construction principles allow to develop extensible and reusable building blocks for the development of data flow based visual languages. First we’ll present the data flow visual language ProtoHyperflow whose object-oriented realization is discussed in the second part of the paper.