In this paper, we examine a set of object interactions generated with a 3D natural language simulation and visualization platform, VoxSim (Krishnaswamy and Pustejovsky 2016b). These simulations all realize the natural language relations “touching” and “near” over a test set of various objects within a 3-dimensional world that interprets descriptions of motion events and renders their visual ins...

Semantic relations between concepts or data are common modelling devices in various knowledge representation approaches. Fuzzy relations can be defined as fuzzy subsets of the cartesian product of a number of domains, extending the notion of crisp relation. Associations in object-oriented modelling – and more specifically in the Unified Modelling Language – can be interpreted as crisp relations...

We develop a notion of spatial-behavioral typing suitable to discipline interactions in service-based systems modeled in a distributed object calculus. Our type structure reflects a resource aware model of behavior, where a parallel composition type operator expresses resource independence, a sequential composition type operator expresses implicit synchronization, and a modal operator expresses...

The author presents a reading of Freud's "Mourning and melancholia" in which he examines not only the ideas Freud was introducing, but, as important, the way he was thinking/writing in this watershed paper. The author demonstrates how Freud made use of his exploration of the unconscious work of mourning and of melancholia to propose and explore some of the major tenets of a revised model of the...

Automatic knowledge extraction from such a very large document corpus as the Web is one of the hottest research topics in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Database technologies. This chapter introduces my object-oriented and the existing methods to extract semantic (e.g., hyponymy and meronymy) and sensory (e.g., visual and aural) knowledge from the Web, and compares them by showing se...

Historically, issues of gender, race and the environment have received little attention in mainstream International Relations (IR) scholarship. Great strides have been made, however, in interrogating the inadequacies of the field in these areas and, similarly, in demonstrating the necessity of expanded definitions of security and violence in IR. Despite these strides, mainstream environmental s...

This paper deals with modelling constraints in object-oriented databases, with emphasis given on exceptions. Constraints are restrictions on properties and relations of database objects that ensure the integrity of data. Therefore, they should be obeyed by every object, but as in real-life, there are some exceptions to this rule. Object-oriented databases provide rich semantic constructs, adequ...

We present a realizability model for reasoning about contextual equivalence of higher-order programs with impredicative polymorphism, recursive types, and higher-order mutable state. The model combines the virtues of two recent earlier models: (1) Ahmed, Dreyer, and Rossberg’s step-indexed logical relations model, which was designed to facilitate proofs of representation independence for “state...

Nested object annotation watermarking (NOAWM) has been introduced as a specialization within annotation watermarking, whereby hierarchical object relations are embedded in photographic images and object relations may be of visual-functional or visual-spatial nature [ViSc2006]. All previous work in the NOAWM domain has focused in this first category of relations, which denotes relationships of o...

Haptic perception of space is known to show characteristics that are different to actual space. The current study extends on this line of research, investigating whether systematic deviations are also observed in the formation of haptic spatial representations of object-to-object relations. We conducted a haptic spatial reproduction task analogous to the parallelity task with spatial layouts. T...