Surface realisation from flat semantic formulae is known to be exponential in the length of the input. In this paper, we argue that TAG naturally supports the integration of three main ways of reducing complexity: polarity filtering, delayed adjunction and empty semantic items elimination. We support these claims by presenting some preliminary results of the TAG-based surface realiser GenI.

as if I had personally interviewed them. The fact, too, that being human lives their stories finish off abruptly without any easing of the situation, forces the reader to contemplate the ultimate issues. What must become of these sorry creatures??permanently seeking for some Talisman that will solve all their problems, but merely repeating endlessly the some mistakes, driven on by the Geni within.

Cloud computing offers a wide range of benefits including potential cost-savings by leasing resources from cloud service providers and improved user experience by Geodistributing applications [17]. Cloud service providers typically share the platform and cloud resources across multiple users for better utilization. They lease resources on-demand to users in three broad flavors, namely, Infrastr...

After the fall of the Roman Empire in AD 476, scientific progress in Europe had come to a standstill. This era between fall of Rome and the Renaissance is commonly known as the dark ages. However, from the 8th till 13th century, scientific and cultural knowledge had flourished in the Islamic world. This period, which began soon after the establishment of the Abbasid Khalifate in Baghdad in the ...

This paper describes an emulation of a distributed access control system proposed for use in the GENI network testbed. We use our trust management system, CERTDIST, to realize the system policy, and measure its performance by mapping PlanetLab’s centralized access control scheme to GENI’s distributed scheme and then replaying logs of PlanetLab access control activity. Our log analysis indicates...

This paper designs an intra-body network (IBN) of nodes, consisting of small sensors and processing elements (SPEs) placed at different locations within the body and a Personal Digital Assistant placed externally but in close proximity to the body. The sensors measure specific physiological attributes such as electrophysiological and biochemical changes in the myocardium (action potentials of c...

"Ibn Sina (Arabic), also known as Avicenna (Latin) and Abu Ali Sina (Persian) was the most original and systematic Muslim philosopher. In this light he is mentioned by two celebrated historians of medieval western philosophy: A. Maurer states, "...his [ibn Sina's] philosophy is a highly personal achievement, ranking among the greatest in the history of philosophy;" and F. Copleston holds, "The ...