This is the material which I presented at the 60th birthday conference of my good friend José Luis Vicente in Seville in September 2001. It is based on the nine lectures, now called sections, which were given by me at Purdue in Spring 1997. This should provide a good calculational background for the Galois theory of vectorial (= additive) polynomials and their iterates.

Contributors: D. G. Bolitho, Lexie Friend, L. M. Milligan and Janice Parker.

We offer a defense of one aspect of Paul Horwich’s response to the Liar paradox—more specifically, of his move to preserve classical logic. Horwich’s response requires that the full intersubstitutivity of ‘ ‘A’ is true’ and A be abandoned. It is thus open to the objection, due to Hartry Field, that it undermines the generalization function of truth. We defend Horwich’s move by isolating the gra...

Abstract Relational Quantum Mechanics is an interpretation of quantum mechanics proposed by Carlo Rovelli. Rovelli argues that, in the same spirit as Einstein’s theory relativity, physical quantities can only have definite values relative to observer. hereby able offer a principled explanation problem nested measurement, also known Wigner’s friend. Since states are taken be that depend on both ...

J.C. Wortmann Department of Indusuial Engineering and Management Science. Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven. The Netherlands. This paper gives an overview of the Factory Of the Future (FOF) project (ESPRIT 3143). FOF aims at an integration of several fragmented theories about the (re)design of production systems. Such an integration is a prerequisite for a prope...

Abstract The production and decay of the X(3872) are analyzed under the assumption that the X is a weakly-bound molecule of the charm mesons D0D̄∗0 and D∗0D̄0. The decays imply that the large D0D̄∗0 scattering length has an imaginary part. An effective field theory for particles with a large complex scattering length is used to derive factorization formulas for production rates and decay rates of ...

On the base of Lie algebraic and differential geometry methods, a wide class of multidimensional nonlinear integrable systems is obtained, and the integration scheme for such equations is proposed. 1. In the report we give a Lie algebraic and differential geometry derivation of a wide class of nonlinear integrable systems of partial differential equations for the functions depending on an arbit...

While direct social ties have been intensely studied in the context of computer-mediated social networks, indirect ties (e.g., friends of friends) have seen little attention. Yet in real life, we often rely on friends of our friends for recommendations (of good doctors, good schools, or good babysitters), for introduction to a new job opportunity, and for many other occasional needs. In this wo...

We address the problem of describing, recognizing, and learning generic, free-form objects in real-world scenes. We introduce a hybrid appearance-based approach, IDEAL, where objects are encoded as a loose collections of parts and the relations between them. The key features of this new approach are the structural part decomposition combining multi-scale wavelet segmentation and hierarchical bl...