There is a close relationship between word unification and secondorder unification. This similarity has been exploited, for instance, in order to prove decidability of monadic second-order unification and decidability of linear second-order unification when no second-order variable occurs more than twice. The attempt to prove the second result for (nonlinear) second-order unification failed and...

In recent years, the Description Logic EL has received a significant interest. It has been shown to be useful as a knowledge representation formalism, to define large biomedical ontologies. Moreover, important inference problems like subsumption have been shown to be decidable in polynomial time in EL. In particular, unification in EL can be used to detect redundancies in big ontologies. The un...

The doctrine of judicial law presupposes, in the main, unification procedural laws. author notes that form practice is also an object convergence. There are three types differences temporary, territorial and sectoral. article clarifies reasons for difficulties convergence various legal proceedings. It stated intersectoral uniformity, or at least absence obvious contradictions, one main goals re...

This thesis presents two new methods that specialize ordinary and binary Prolog programs and compares them with current approaches. The first method is based on the new notion of partially static goals. Partially static goals generalize binding environments. More information can be propagated for specialization. The method is well suited for application in fold/unfold transformation systems. Th...

In speaking and comprehending language, word information is retrieved from memory and combined into larger units (unification). Unification operations take place in parallel at the semantic, syntactic and phonological levels of processing. This article proposes a new framework that connects psycholinguistic models to a neurobiological account of language. According to this proposal the left inf...

This paper presents a rule-based algorithm for performing order-sorted E-unification using an unsorted E-unification decision procedure under assumptions about E that are commonly satisfied in practice. We have implemented this algorithm in Maude for use with the Maude-NRL protocol analyzer and have used CiME for unsorted E-unification for E any set of AC and ACU axioms. In many examples of int...

In 1996, a newly elected government in the Province of Ontario, Canada, introduced a managed competition environment into the home care sector through the establishment of a competitive contracting process for home care services. Through 65 in-depth, semi-structured interviews conducted between November 1999 and January 2001, we trace the implementation of this competitive contracting policy wi...

Superstring phenomenology aims at achieving two goals. The first is to reproduce the observed physics of the Standard Model. The second is to identify experimental signatures of superstring unification which, if observed, will provide further evidence for the validity of superstring theory. I discuss such potential signatures of superstring unification. I propose that proton lifetime constraint...