Coalition analysis is extended to incorporate uncertain preference into three stability concepts, general metarationality (GMR), symmetric metarationality (SMR), and sequential stability (SEQ) under the paradigm of the graph model for conflict resolution. As a follow-up analysis in the graph model, coalition analysis aims to assess whether equilibriums under individual calculations are vulnerab...

We propose two machine learning methods based on Bayesian networks to discover automatically real world causal relations from scientific publications. The first method assumes that the occurrence of causal mechanisms (and the corresponding entities) in the publications follows a transitive scheme, the second method assumes that the causal mechanisms occur independently. We perform an evaluation...

Abstract In this article, we first show that the Bribri (Chibchan) middle voice suffix - r derives passive from active transitive and agentive intransitive verbs, as well anticausative verbs nominal adjectival roots. Second, focus on five media tantum i.e., forms synchronically carry have no counterpart without . Unlike most other these are labile, they can occur in syntactically constructions ...

When learning verb meanings, learners capitalize on universal linguistic correspondences between syntactic and semantic structure. For instance, upon hearing the transitive sentence "the boy is glorping the girl" two-year olds prefer a two-participant event (e.g., a boy making a girl spin) over two simultaneous one-participant events (a boy and a girl separately spinning). However, two- and thr...

Kalenscher et al. (2010) explored the neural signatures of intransitive preferences. This endeavor is of great interest because transitivity of preferences has long been considered a key feature of rationality. The success of this approach hinges upon appropriate methods for identifying decision makers with intransitive preferences. The authors invented a descriptive numerical “index of intrans...

than n — 1, while the average number of elements in all the substitutions of G is n — 1. This is impossible, as the substitutions of G which are not also in H cannot contain more than n — 1 elements. Hence H is transitive. Since the average number of elements in the substitutions of G is the same as that in the substitutions of H, the substitutions of G which are not found in H must all be of t...

Two-year-olds assign appropriate interpretations to verbs presented in two English transitivity alternations, the causal and unspecified-object alternations (Naigles, 1996). Here we explored how they might do so. Causal and unspecified-object verbs are syntactically similar. They can be either transitive or intransitive, but differ in the semantic roles they assign to the subjects of intransiti...

Human and animal data suggest that the mere observation of biological motion activates those premotor areas that also underlie the initiation of the same motion. However, data also indicate that the human premotor cortex (PM), in contrast to the monkey PM, responds not only to the observation of goal-directed (transitive) motion but also to intransitive motion. The present study used functional...

This paper analyzes the argument structure of Yucatec Mayan. In line with traditional assumptions but in contrast to more recent proposals, we show that Yucatec has ergative morphology but not a split-ergative system. For intransitive verbs there is a strict correlation between aspect and the type of linker: they take ergative clitics in the imperfect, but nominative suffixes in the perfect. Mo...

Non-interference, in transitive or intransitive form, is defined here over unbounded (Place/Transition) Petri nets. The definitions are adaptations of similar, well-accepted definitions introduced earlier in the framework of labelled transition systems [4, 5, 8]. The interpretation of intransitive noninterference which we propose for Petri nets is as follows. A Petri net represents the composit...