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The Design of the Fifth Answer Set Programming Competition
Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-established paradigm of declarative
programming that has been developed in the field of logic programming and
nonmonotonic reasoning. Advances in ASP solving technology are customarily
assessed in competition events, as it happens for other closely-related
problem-solving technologies like SAT/SMT, QBF, Planning and Scheduling. ASP
Competitions are (usually) biennial events; however, the Fifth ASP Competition
departs from tradition, in order to join the FLoC Olympic Games at the Vienna
Summer of Logic 2014, which is expected to be the largest event in the history
of logic. This edition of the ASP Competition series is jointly organized by
the University of Calabria (Italy), the Aalto University (Finland), and the
University of Genova (Italy), and is affiliated with the 30th International
Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2014). It features a completely
re-designed setup, with novelties involving the design of tracks, the scoring
schema, and the adherence to a fixed modeling language in order to push the
adoption of the ASP-Core-2 standard. Benchmark domains are taken from past
editions, and best system packages submitted in 2013 are compared with new
versions and solvers.
To appear in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP).Comment: 10 page
Translation in distraction : on Eileen Changâs âChinese translation: a vehicle of cultural influenceâ
This essay focuses on a previously obscure and only recently republished English text held at USC that offers an unparalleled window into Changâs engagement with translation. The untitled manuscript, typed with handwritten additions and corrections, is contained in a folder marked âUntitled article or speechâ and appears to be the script of an oral presentation in which Chang surveys the development of translation in China from the late-Qing period, through the 1911 revolution, the May Fourth period, the war with Japan, the 1949 revolution and the Cultural Revolution. Her speech emphasizes how translation functioned as an index to Chinaâs fraught relationship with the outside world, particularly the West (including Japan and Russia); to that end, the text engages with historical movements such as imperialism, modernization, and the ideological polarization of the Cold War, resulting in an account that belies her reputation as an apolitical figure. While the rediscovery of a text by Eileen Chang is certainly a matter of anecdotal interest, the purpose of this essay is not only to reconstruct its history but also to consider how it illuminates her lifelong relationship to translation through which, I will argue, she tried to unsettle the geopolitical categories that Chih-ming Wang çæșæ (2012) has identified as foundational to modern Chinese literary culture. In what follows, I start by providing an overview of the text based on archival and other sources and provide a summary of its contents. Turning to Shuang Shenâs æČé (2012) discussion of translation as impersonation, I consider how the oral address, a rare textual form in the oeuvre of a notoriously reclusive writer, involves navigating the roles of reader, author, and translator. Through this genre, Chang hints at the possibility of distancing herself from the geopolitics of translation even as the ultimate failure to do so reveals the constraints of her diasporic condition
Focal Spot, Summer 1987
https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/focal_spot_archives/1046/thumbnail.jp
Barry Smith an sich
Festschrift in Honor of Barry Smith on the occasion of his 65th Birthday. Published as issue 4:4 of the journal Cosmos + Taxis: Studies in Emergent Order and Organization. Includes contributions by Wolfgang Grassl, Nicola Guarino, John T. Kearns, Rudolf LĂŒthe, Luc Schneider, Peter Simons, Wojciech Ć»eĆaniec, and Jan WoleĆski
Learning morphological phenomena of Modern Greek an exploratory approach
This paper presents a computational model for the description of concatenative morphological phenomena of modern Greek (such as inflection, derivation and compounding) to allow learners, trainers and developers to explore linguistic processes through their own constructions in an interactive openâended multimedia environment. The proposed model introduces a new language metaphor, the âpuzzleâmetaphorâ (similar to the existing âturtleâmetaphorâ for concepts from mathematics and physics), based on a visualized unificationâlike mechanism for pattern matching. The computational implementation of the model can be used for creating environments for learning through design and learning by teaching
Social networking and transnational capitalism
Social Networking Sites (SNS) have become a key component of usersâ experience of the internet. Whilst much has been made of the social dynamics of online SNS, the influence of the structures and operations of these sites â and the business models behind them â on users is rarely accounted for. This paper argues that behind the social behaviours sup- ported by SNS, there is a growing shift towards viewing online communities as commodities, and SNS as an extension of mainstream capitalist ideologies fostered by existing patterns of commercialization and consumption. Using the works of Gramsci, Gill and Hardt & Negri to provide a critical grounding, this paper explores the popular SNS site âFacebookâ and suggests that SNS may feel to the users to be free, social, personal, but in fact SNS are business as usual
Eternity and Print How Medieval Ideas of Time Influenced the Development of Mechanical Reproduction of Texts and Images
The methods of intellectual history have not yet been applied to studying
the invention of technology for printing texts and images ca. 1375âca.
1450. One of the several conceptual developments in this period refl ecting
the possibility of mechanical replication is a view of the relationship of
eternity to durational time based on Gregory of Nyssaâs philosophy of time
and William of Ockhamâs. Th e article considers how changes in these ideas
helped enable the conceptual possibilities of the dissemination of ideas. It
describes a direct connection of human perceptual knowledge to divine
knowledge that enhanced the authority of printed production to transfer
and reproduce the true and the good
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