We are attempting to create a cross-generational learning community who will work together to design, construct, and discuss simulations of community topics. The simulations are built with Stagecast Creator, a stateof-the art visual programming environment [12]. As part of this larger project, we have developed minimalist training materials for middle school students. This paper reports a forma...

This paper describes abstractions that have been designed to support distributed programming in the object oriented programming language BETA. The approach is minimalistic in the sense that a goal is to provide the essential building blocks on top of which other distribution related abstractions may be built. This goal is made easier by demanding for type orthogonal persistence and distribution...

With the wide adoption of linked data idea and its rapid growth in recent years, we have witnessed vast increase of Linked Data datasets not only in the volume, but also in number of various domains and across different sectors. While such big semantic data are bringing in much more value than what we have ever seen, the challenges to consume such data also increase dramatically, which result w...

This paper examines in detail the proposition that a set of fundamental syntactic relations (domination, sisterhood, c-command, etc) can be founded in the computational operation Merge, itself taken to be fundamental and indispensable. In doing this, it pursues one aspect of minimalist methodology in an unusually rigorous fashion. The outcome of the investigation is that Chomsky’s initial appro...

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The analysis presented in this paper extends the uniform intersective (“boolean”) treatment of conjunctive coordinators to Heterofunctional Coordination (HC), i.e., coordination different grammatical functions. A compositional account HC based on mainstream derivational syntax is proposed, one that makes Champollion’s (2015) “quantificational event semantics” compatible with syntax. assumption,...

In this paper we present the Standards Enforcer Pattern (SEP). The remit of SEP is to enable the ontological modelling of processes, activities, operations and services that enforce guideline(s) recommended by a specific standard and need to explicitly indicate their conformance to it. The pattern allows the inclusion of minimalistic information regarding the conformance, while retaining the fl...

Cello bowing techniques are classified by applying supervised machine learning methods to sensor data from two inertial sensors called the Orient specks – one worn on the playing wrist and the other attached to the frog of the bow. Twelve different bowing techniques were considered, including variants on a single string and across multiple strings. Results are presented for the classification o...

Active surfaces can manipulate (i.e., translate, rotate) one or more parts in the plane by \displaying" arbitrary forces at a number of points. Many designs have been proposed based on a massively-parallel array of microactuators. For such \pixel-oriented" devices, a large density of microactuators per unit area is required for acceptable force eld programmability; the large number and small si...