A linear code E? is said to he in minimal-change order if each codeword differs from its predecessor by a word of minimum weight. A rule is presented to construct such an order in case that i? has a basis of codewords with minimum weight. Some consequences concem-ing the ranking and separability in 5 F are mentioned. It is well known that the set of all binary words of length n can be ordered i...

Observations are generated according to a regression with normal error as a function of time, when the process is in control. The process potentially changes at some unknown point of time and then the ensuing observations are normal with the same mean function plus an arbitrary function under suitable regularity conditions. The problem is to obtain a stopping rule that is optimal in the sense t...

Some temporal ontologies require a way of enforcing the temporal qualification of certain assertions—those about changing entities. In a knowledge representation language based on first–order logic, this is straightforwardly done by having a category of temporal regions and augmenting predicates with an additional argument place for the time at which a given predicate holds. Here, I address the...

Order management might incur substantially challenging tasks for Engineer to Order (ETO) type manufacturing companies. A significant number of engineering changes and variations during the order management process constantly occur. These changes lead to modifications in product, design and engineering, and material management phases and ETO companies must react on these changes appropriately. E...

Substantial family and work macro-level change has been occurring in Japan. Examples include a decline in the availability of jobs that afford lifetime protection against unemployment, an increase in jobs that do not carry benefits such as a pension, an increase in age at marriage and at first birth, and an increase in marital dissolution. Using life history data from the 2000 National Survey o...

We aim to demonstrate that agent-based models can be a useful tool for historical linguists, by modeling the historical development of verbal cluster word order in Germanic languages. Our results show that the current order in German may have developed due to increased use of subordinate clauses, while the English order is predicted to be influenced by the grammaticalization of the verb to have...

In this article, we hypothesize that individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are born with a deficit in invariance detection, which is a learning process whereby people and animals come to attend the relatively stable patterns or structural regularities in the changing stimulus array. This paper synthesizes a substantial body of research which suggests that a deficit in the domain-gener...

Typological work has demonstrated that there are constraints on word order variation. For example, auxiliary verbs tend to precede content verbs in VO languages (Dryer 1992). Further, typologically recurrent structural preferences are reflected in language change. In this paper, we present agent-based modeling work that suggests that Filtered Learning Models (e.g. Kirby 1999) can capture the em...

We reexamine a population model which exhibits a continuous absorbing phase transition belonging to directed percolation in 1D and a first-order transition in 2D and above. Studying the model on Sierpinski Carpets of varying fractal dimensions, we examine at what fractal dimension 1 ≤ d f ≤ 2, the change in order occurs. As well as commenting on the order of the transitions, we produce estimate...

This is also an example of an implicitization problem. Main result. Let C be a regular chain, whose saturated ideal is prime. We give a probabilistic algorithm, of complexity polynomial in the size of input (degree, complexity of evaluation) and output (number of monomials), and in the degree of the quasi-component of C. Let d be the maximum degree in C, let n be the number of variables. If all...