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The present paper makes reference to its author’s work The Dynamics of Language (1976) and presents three basic and indispensable cate-gories for a theory and description of language, namely form, significa-tion, and location, with special emphasis on the last two. After a short introduction, the following problems are considered: (1) language theory and semantics, (2) language sign and the dichot-omy...
It is now widely accepted that in order to optimize both their usage and their design and maintenance ontologies should comply to design quality criteria, e.g., absence of redundancies and appropriate level of abstraction. Yet given the variety and scope of activities comprised in the life-cycle of an ontological model (OM), such as adapting, splitting, populating, this quality is easily compromised,...
Multiple description coding is a framework adapted to noisy transmission environments. In this work, we use H.264 to create two descriptions of a video sequence, each of them assuring a minimum quality level. If both of them are received, a suitable algorithm is used to produce an improved quality sequence. The key technique is a temporal image interpolation using motion compensation, inspired to...
This paper presents an imitation mechanism and a study of its behavior in spatial grid-based configurations. The imitation mechanism replicates external signals without associating with objects, as in higher-level imitation; it is therefore a model of proto-imitation where agents imitate unconditionally the agents they happen to interact with. We study the mechanism in 2D space to understand how it...
We present a novel coder for lossless compression of adaptive multiresolution meshes that exploits their special hierarchical structure. The heart of our method is a new progressive connectivity coder that can be combined with leading geometry encoding techniques. The compressor uses the parent/child relationships inherent to the hierarchical mesh. We use the rules that accord to the refinement scheme...
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