Pronominal Choice as an Interpersonal Strategy

This paper offers a review of the main aspects of address theory and examines the main interpersonal strategic functions of terms of address. In order to illustrate these issues I have chosen some examples from political discourse. Specifically, I selected three political interviews which took place around the same time (21st April 2003, 16th November 2003 and 30th May 2004), and with the same worldwide conflict in the background (the Iraqi war), but which featured three different interviewees of three different nationalities. Nonetheless, these interviewees share a common characteristic: they held the highest political office in their countries at the time. These interviewees are: Mr. José M. Aznar (President of Spain), Mr. George W. Bush (President of the USA) and Mr. Tony Blair (Prime Minister of the UK). I will try to relate the choice of specific pronominal references to the pragmatic nature of the questions being asked. For this purpose, I will borrow the terms “CC (communicative conflict) question” and “equivocation” from Bavelas, Black, Chovil and Mullett (1990

Consensus stabilizability and exact consensus controllability of multi-agent linear systems

A goal in engineering systems is to try to control them. Control theory offers mathematical tools for steering engineered systems towards a desired state. Stabilizability and controllability can be studied under different points of view, in particular, we focus on measure of controllability in the sense of the minimum set of controls that need for to steer the multiagent system toward any desired state. In this paper, we study the consensus stabilizability and exact consensus controllability of multi-agent linear systems, in which all agents have a same linear dynamic mode that can be in any orderPostprint (published version

Analyzing controllability of neural networks

In recent years, due to the relation between cognitive control and mathematical concept of control dynamical systems, there has been growing interest in the descriptive analysis of complex networks with linear dynamics, permeating many aspects from everyday life, obtaining considerable advances in the description of their structural and dynamical properties. Nevertheless, much less effort has been devoted to studying the controllability of the dynamics taking place on them. Concretely, for complex systems is of interest to study the exact controllability, this measure is defined as the minimum set of controls that are needed to steer the whole system toward any desired state. In this paper, a revision of controllability concepts is presented and provides conditions for exact controllability for the multiagent systemsPostprint (author's final draft

Pibok-pb: A collaborative framework to improve software development productivity through projects and process assets reuse and measurement with six sigma techniques

The Software Engineering Lab (SEL-UC3M) is aimed to develop solutions to software projects processes related problems having an accessible, collaborative, practiced and manageable focus. We are interested to collaborate with research centers and universities worldwide that share our philosophy as well as with enterprises and public administrations interested in our novel methods

Wind profile prediction using linear Markov chains: A linear algebra approach

To predict the future wind speed and wind direction is of relevance to the wind industry to maximize the power generation. In this regards, this article describes a methodology for the construction of predictive models based on linear Markov chains under linear algebra point of view. The model analyzes the direction and speed of the wind obtained from a meteorological station. This Model allows making a precise study of wind direction and speeding data; figure out the stability, the most common direction or speed, its behaviour depending on the hours or seasons.Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft