Abstract. According to the functional approach to language evolution (inspired by cognitive linguistics and construction grammar), grammar arises to deal with issues in communicati...
Abstract. We suggest that the primary motivation for an agent to construct a symbol-meaning mapping is to solve a task. The meaning space of an agent should be derived from the tas...
Samarth Swarup, Kiran Lakkaraju, Sylvian R. Ray, L...
Abstract. In knowledge representation by fuzzy rule based systems two reasoning mechanisms can be distinguished: conjunction-based and implication-based inference. Both approaches ...
Mark Freischlad, Martina Schnellenbach-Held, Torbe...
Abstract. The call for a "focus on content" in ontology research by Nicola Guarino and Mark Musen in their launching statement of the journal Applied Ontology has quite s...
Abstract. Motivated by the problem of protecting cryptographic hardware, we continue the investigation of private circuits initiated in [16]. In this work, our aim is to construct ...
Yuval Ishai, Manoj Prabhakaran, Amit Sahai, David ...