More about Dynamical Reduction and the Enumeration Principle

In view of the arguments put forward by Clifton and Monton [1999] in a recent preprint, we reconsider the alleged conflict of dynamical reduction models with the enumeration principle. We prove that our original analysis of such a problem is correct, that the GRW model does not meet any difficulty and that the reasoning of the above authors is inappropriate since it does not take into account the correct interpretation of the dynamical reduction theories.Comment: 23 pages, Latex, to appear in Brit. J. Phil. Sc

A Topos Perspective on State-Vector Reduction

A preliminary investigation is made of possible applications in quantum theory of the topos formed by the collection of all $M$-sets, where $M$ is a monoid. Earlier results on topos aspects of quantum theory can be rederived in this way. However, the formalism also suggests a new way of constructing a `neo-realist' interpretation of quantum theory in which the truth values of propositions are determined by the actions of the monoid of strings of finite projection operators. By these means, a novel topos perspective is gained on the concept of state-vector reduction

INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THE RETAILER ON EMERGING MARKETS: BETWEEN STRATEGIC CHOICES AND CULTURAL CHOICES, THE ROMANIAN EXAMPLE

The global financial crisis raised the price of the access to bank loans, a viable solution for financing is represented by issuing municipal bonds. This paper presents the current situation of municipal bons issues in Romania focusing on destination, on costs, on loans’ guarantees and their impact on indebtedness of local government. Local municipal bond market in Romania has a relatively short history, tailored after 2001, knowing that a considerable advance in recent years. The most common reasons for which public authorities are calling for loans are: either in need of cash or in need to balance the budget.internationalization of retailing, French retailers, culturalism, universalism, double cultural filtration, Romania, eastern countries, emerging markets.

Metamorphic Domain-Specific Languages: A Journey Into the Shapes of a Language

External or internal domain-specific languages (DSLs) or (fluent) APIs? Whoever you are -- a developer or a user of a DSL -- you usually have to choose your side; you should not! What about metamorphic DSLs that change their shape according to your needs? We report on our 4-years journey of providing the "right" support (in the domain of feature modeling), leading us to develop an external DSL, different shapes of an internal API, and maintain all these languages. A key insight is that there is no one-size-fits-all solution or no clear superiority of a solution compared to another. On the contrary, we found that it does make sense to continue the maintenance of an external and internal DSL. The vision that we foresee for the future of software languages is their ability to be self-adaptable to the most appropriate shape (including the corresponding integrated development environment) according to a particular usage or task. We call metamorphic DSL such a language, able to change from one shape to another shape

Reducing fuzzy answer set programming to model finding in fuzzy logics

In recent years, answer set programming (ASP) has been extended to deal with multivalued predicates. The resulting formalisms allow for the modeling of continuous problems as elegantly as ASP allows for the modeling of discrete problems, by combining the stable model semantics underlying ASP with fuzzy logics. However, contrary to the case of classical ASP where many efficient solvers have been constructed, to date there is no efficient fuzzy ASP solver. A well-known technique for classical ASP consists of translating an ASP program P to a propositional theory whose models exactly correspond to the answer sets of P. In this paper, we show how this idea can be extended to fuzzy ASP, paving the way to implement efficient fuzzy ASP solvers that can take advantage of existing fuzzy logic reasoners