« J’ai considéré ce roman comme définitivement inachevé le 27 janvier 2011 » : ainsi s’ouvre la postface du romancier catalan Jaume Cabré à son Confiteor (Jo confesso, 2011, traduit par E. Raillard en 2013). Cette formule qui pointe, au-delà de totalité d’une oeuvre publiée, l’infini possible, résonne dans les préoccupations esthétiques et éthiques roman. Malgré l’assiduité narrateur, Adrià, ch...

Standard e-business document types are usually too ambiguous due to an overwhelming choice of data elements. Business partners must agree on a shared subset and adapt their application interfaces accordingly. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) cannot perform this task. UN/CEFACT’s Modeling Methodology (UMM) provides a methodology to define unambiguous business collaborations allowing software ...

RÉSUMÉ. La construction de logiciels à partir de plusieurs applications différentes et hétérogènes est de plus en plus fréquente. Cependant, il n’existe pas à présent une méthodologie de construction pour de tels logiciels. Dans cet article, nous proposons une architecture qui permet de créer des logiciels en faisant collaborer plusieurs services et applications différentes et hétérogènes, util...

This paper presents a theory concerning the dependence of intonational contours on discourse context, and expounds a framework for modeling contrastive stress, a phenomena whereby pitch accents are strategically placed based on their ability to discriminate among available discourse entities. The intonation theory, which is presented with respect to a model of discourse coherence inspired by Ce...

The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is an extensive neural network whose main role is to regulate the milieu intérieur by controlling homeostasis and visceral functions. Although most functions regulated by the ANS are out of conscious control, emotions and somatosensory inputs profoundly influence the ANS. Observing the marked vasomotor and sudomotor changes after traumatic nerve injury, it bec...

UN/CEFACT’s ModellingMethodology (UMM) is amethodology created to capture the business requirements of inter-organizational business processes, regardless of the underlying technology. An example of how to apply UMM to an inter-enterprise e-health project is presented in this paper.

The article deals with a set of exercises for the formation spontaneous monologue speech: describing picture / photograph, reproductive exercises, situational (with supplemented, problematic and imaginary situations), discusive (discussion commenting), compositional