We give a broad characterization of distributed coordination, building on a basic agreement clause, then de ning a generic sequence clause and a generic termination clause. We instantiate these to obtain common problems. Our decomposition isolates communication costs due solely to ordering or termination, giving a clear way of comparing coordination problems. We further explore the notion of ex...

Tag questions are a conspicuous feature of spoken Present-day English. In contrast to many other languages, where tags are generally realized by invariant forms (e.g. nicht wahr? in German, oder? in Swiss German, or n’est-ce pas? in French), the canonical English question tag is a reduced interrogative clause whose structure and lexical content is conditioned by the format of the anchor – or ho...

Spoken French makes extensive use of dislocations, where one phrase, usually the subject, is set off from the main clause, and within that clause, a pronoun is used. Previous findings are conflicting about the strength of the prosodic boundary, if any, between the dislocation and the main clause. We compare productions of dislocations in conversation and in identical sentences read aloud. Both ...

The Bayesian framework of learning from positive noise-free examples derived by Muggleton [12] is extended to learning functional hypotheses from positive examples containing normally distributed noise in the outputs. The method subsumes a type of distance based learning as a special case. We also present an effective method of outlieridentification which may significantly improve the predictiv...

Transforming a planning instance into a propositional formula φ to be solved by a SAT solver is a common approach in AI planning. In the context of multiagent planning, this approach causes the distributed SAT problem: given φ distributed among agents –each agent knows a part of φ but no agent knows the whole φ–, check if φ is SAT or UNSAT by message passing. On the other hand, Asynchronous Bac...

LDR can be accounted for if the reciprocal either takes scope at the matrix clause or takes the matrix subject as its antecedent. This is assumed in the analyses of LDR in Higginbotham (1981), Heim et al. (1991a), Heim et al. (1991b), Dalrymple et al. (1998). But there is a problem with these accounts. Binding of reciprocals is governed by local principles, Condition A, and reciprocals should n...

This study focuses on the relation between verb position and verb inflection in the speech production of Dutch agrammatic patients. In Dutch, the finite verb is moved to second position in the matrix clause (de jongen leest een boek: the boy reads a book), but remains in its base generated, that is final, position in the embedded clause (ik zie dat de jongen een boek leest: lit. I see that the ...

1 Implicational completeness-a neglected topic Every serious computer scientist and logician knows that resolution is complete for rst-order clause logic. By this, of course, one means that the empty clause (representing contradiction) is derivable by resolution from every unsatissable set of clauses S. However, there is another { less well known { concept of completeness for clause logic, that...

this article is concerned with the question of how much the assured will be entitled to recover following an assured loss. it will be discussed which three elements are involved in this respect; first the loss of assured, second the amount of assuror obligation and third the contractual agreements of the parties in respect of the amount of assuror's payment.it should be noted that franchis...

We consider the clause{based version of the general model of semantic derivations proposed by Kraj cek. Resolution refutation proof is a special deterministic version of fanin-2 clause{based derivation. We prove the following combinatorial lower bound on the length of such derivations. Let F be a k-partite hypergraph, with at most b points in each part such that no point belongs to more than d ...