Power cables that have sheaths, usually lead, and are manufactured with bitumen impregnated hessian which degrades over time, act as long grounding electrodes or inject fault current directly into the surrounding soil. As a consequence of this, the MV lines made of this type of cable spontaneously form a very large and complex grounding system around the high-voltage/medium-voltage (HV/MV) dist...

A popular principle about grounding, “Internality”, says that if grounds B, then necessarily, and B obtain, B. I argue Internality is false. Its falsity reveals a distinctive, new kind of explanation, which call “ennobling”. also entails every previously proposed theory what grounding facts construct theory.

Grounding is the task of reducing a first order formula to ground formula that is equivalent on a given universe, and is important in many kinds of problem solving and reasoning systems. One method for grounding is based on an extension of the relational algebra, exploiting the fact that grounding over a given domain is similar to query answering. In this paper, we introduce two methods for spe...

Service-oriented architecture concepts and Web Services specifications allow for an infinite binding between the service requestor and the service provider. This open-ended form of interaction constrains the service provider from changing service contracts, policies and endpoints. Other distributed technologies and protocols such as Jini and DHCP provide for the use of a lease to more easily ma...

This paper surveys data management techniques used in Application Servers. It begins with an overview of Application Server architectures and the way they have evolved from earlier transaction processing systems. It then presents a ta-xonomy of clustered services that differ in the way they manage data in memory and on disk. The treatment of conversational state is discussed in depth. Finally, ...

Abstract The aim of this paper is to introduce, elucidate and defend the usefulness a variant grounding, or metaphysical explanation, that has feature grounds explain some states affairs one them obtains without explaining which obtains. I will dub arbitrary grounding . After informally elucidating basic idea in first section, provide three hypotheses are best formulated terms second section. t...

We present a simple real-time, real-world grounding framework, and a system which implements it in a simple robot, allowing investigation into different grounding strategies. We put particular focus on the grounding effects of non-linguistic task-related actions. We experiment with a trade-off between the fluidity of the grounding mechanism with the ‘safety’ of ensuring task success. The framew...