Building conversation protocols has traditionally been an art more than a science, as their construction is often guided by designers’ intuition rather than by a principled appro...
Generating multimedia streams, such as in a netradio, is a task which is complex and difficult to adapt to every users’ needs. We introduce a novel approach in order to achieve i...
This paper presents a direct implementation of Government-Binding theory in a parser for German, which faithfully models the modular structure of the theory. The modular design yi...
The revelation principle is a cornerstone tool in mechanism design. It states that one can restrict attention, without loss in the designer’s objective, to mechanisms in which A...
: This paper begins with a long-term view of the development of cyberspace. This includes a brief examination of the worldview of a 16th-century mapmaker and over 4000 years of dev...