Snoop is an event specification language developed for expressing primitive and composite events that are part of Event-Condition-Action (or ECA) rules. In Snoop, an event was defined to be an instantaneous, atomic (happens completely or not at all) occurrence of interest and the time of occurrence of the last event in an event expression was used as the time of occurrence for the entire event ...

In this paper we consider a region which is divided into serveral subregions. Each region is served by a station with a finite capacity. This means that the station can only serve customers within the limits of its capacity (maximum number of connections simultaneously). In connection with this the following question arises: What is the first occurrence time for this event? More exactly, what i...

This article argues that analyses of value semantics in organisational image brochures, websites, and further official documents do not give information about an organisation’s ethical performance. Based on a systems theoretical definition of values, the case is made for a distinction of communication on values and value communication, the latter of which is defined as implicit form of communic...

On the basis of the ordering of bare complements, modifying adjectives and certain adverbs in French, we show that certain constituents are more constrained than others, and we explain this situation in terms of weight, as one of the factors which determine word order. In addition to the distinction between heavy and non-heavy constituents, we propose that there exists a distinction among non-h...

The distinction between individualistic (IV) and collectivistic (CV) instrumental values was compared to the distinction between competence-related and moral personality traits. Study 1 (N=89 students) showed that IV referred mostly to competence and were self-profitable, whereas CV referred mostly to morality and were other-profitable in their nature. Therefore, IV were predicted to reach a re...

In Zwei Arten von Relativismus , Max Kölbel wants to make a substantial distinction between two types of truth-relativism. According to Kölbel, indexical relativism detects hidden indexicality in certain statements (e.g. moral judgments). This leads indexical relativists to claim that the proposition expressed by such a statement is relative to a further parameter in the context of use (e.g. a ...