The life, work, and reception of Nikolai Kliuev (1884-1937) provide striking illustrations of the intense preoccupation in Russian culture with the association between poetry and prophecy, between poet and prophet. Kliuev's work abounds in prophetic statements of many kinds, while he frequently and selfconsciously positioned himself as a "prophet" and explicitly identified his work as "propheti...

what features and advantages does the prophet have which distinguish him from others? to answer this question, the writer names three approaches: 1. epistemical approach, 2. responsibility approach, and 3, situational approach. in the first approach, he examines various viewpoints which all view divine knowledge (ma‘rifat) as the prophet's distinctive feature. in the second approach, the s...

Jon B. Weissman Division of Computer Science University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, TX 78249 USA (210-458-5689 voice, 210-458-4437 fax) ([email protected]) Abstract Obtaining efficient execution of parallel programs in workstation networks is a difficult problem for the user. Unlike dedicated parallel computer resources, network resources are shared, heterogeneous, vary in availability, ...

Recent work on online auctions for digital goods has explored the role of optimal stopping theory — particularly secretary problems — in the design of approximately optimal online mechanisms. This work generally assumes that the size of the market (number of bidders) is known a priori, but that the mechanism designer has no knowledge of the distribution of bid values. However, in many real-worl...