Early film theorist Ricciotto Canudo equated cinema with music because of the Seventh Art’s inherent plasticity; in 21st century, plasticity extends to soundtrack. In this article, I explore fusion musical genre opera. By considering that is a performative medium, beyond actors’ agency, confirm music’s importance it as part structure and style Unlike Franco Zeffirelli’s adaptation Verdi’s opera...

Abstract The paper provides an overview of the interface contrastive and historical pragmatics a case study Othello’s monologue. emerging lines development at cross-roads cover, in particular, speech acts, forms discursive behaviour stance. In analysis, German, Swedish, Finnish Polish translations from different periods are compared to show differences above-mentioned features. illustrations co...

We describe a very simple selective search algorithm for two-player games, called best-first minimax. It always expands next the node at the end of the expected line of play, which determines the minimax value of the root. It uses the same information as alpha-beta minimax, and takes roughly the same time per node generation. We present an implementation of the algorithm that reduces its space ...

This paper discusses a practical framework for the semi{ automatic construction of evaluation functions for games. Based on a structured evaluation function representation, a procedure for exploring the feature space is presented that is able to discover new features in a computational feasible way. Besides the theoretical aspects, related practical issues such as the generation of training pos...

This paper describes comparisons of the minimax backup rule and the product back-up rule on a wide variety of games, including P-games, G-games, three-hole kalah, Othello, and Ballard’s incremental game. In three-hole kalah, the product rule plays better than a minimax search to the same depth. This is a remarkable result, since it is the first widely known game in which product has been found ...

But he [Othello], as loving his own pride and purposes, Evades them, with a bombast circumstance Horribly stuff d with epithets of war: And, in conclusion, nonsuits My mediators; for Certes, says he, I have already chose my officer. And what was he? Forsooth, a great arithmetician, One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife; That never set a squadron in the field, N...