It is well-known that, across languages, so-called “given” information (as opposed to “new” information) systematically correlates with lack of phonetic prominence, or deaccentuation (Halliday 1967, Taglicht 1982, Ladd 1996, Selkirk 1995, Schwarzschild 1999, among many others). The primary goal of this paper is to provide a minimalist syntactic account for a sub-case of this phenomenon, namely ...

Representing emotions in agents is important for designing agents that behave like humans or are intended to interact with humans. OCC model, a descriptive emotion model, has been used widely as a standard for emotion synthesis, however it is also criticized for falling short on suggestions for what to do with the emotional states. PAD emotion scale, a numeric emotion measurement of emotions, s...

Supervisory control synthesis encounters with computational complexity. This can be reduced by decentralized supervisory control approach. In this paper, we define intrinsic control consistency for a pair of states of the plant. G-control consistency (GCC) is another concept which is defined for a natural projection w.r.t. the plant. We prove that, if a natural projection is output control cons...

The opportunistic cooperative platform and adaptive cooperative control scheme were proposed based on the redundancy degree and priority of cooperative data packet, as well as selective characteristics of time domain and frequency domain. First, opportunistic cooperative platform was defined according to the cooperative data stream scale, mapping algorithm, and priority and redundancy of cooper...