the nocturnal harmony of wood orchestra, reza ghassemi’s first novel, is a rare example of iranian postmodernist novel. though the novel has a complicated structure, it is still well-crafted, readable and pleasing, a virtue that very often is not observed in persian postmodernist novels. the present study analyzes the novel in the light of such terms as metafiction, ontological ambiguity, short...

The paper defines the role played by human-readable, namely Russian, language in technologies of machine reading law and statutes. author analyzes complexity factor interpretation according to rules formal logic conceptual units terminology statutes, which may be an obstacle processes machine-reading law, as well formation machine-readable law. draws a number conclusions regarding methodology m...

Abstract Plato's antipathy to crowds is a commonplace that reinforces prevailing portrait of the Socratic method as practice centers on individuals, exclusion and many. This canonical view, however, comes into tension with tendency Socrates conduct his dialogues in presence collective audiences. I argue position at once more complex ambivalent than has been commonly accepted. distinguish betwee...

We address the problem of drawing hypergraphs. We propose and evaluate a family of algorithms that transform a hypergraph drawing problem into a graph drawing problem. Each algorithm in the family relies on a different encoding of a hyperedge into a set of edges. The algorithms can then use any graph drawing algorithms. However, we here focus on the force-directed algorithms. We propose and dis...