Time series analysis and forecasting are important techniques for decision-making in many domains. They are typically evaluated on given sets of time series that have a constant size and specified characteristics. Synthetic datasets are relevant because they are flexible in both size and characteristics. In this demo, we present our prototype Loom, that generates datasets with respect to the us...

I review three papers in the area of dexterous manipulation by machines. These papers focus on different stages of the process of grasping an object. The first describes a method for generating a suitable hand pose to grasp an object at a given set of contact points. The second describes a method for adapting an example manipulation task from a given object to a new object. The third describes ...

This paper describes the design of a pattern matcher for a knowledge representation system called LOOM. The pattern matcher has a very rich pattern-forming language, and is logic-based, with a deductive mechanism which includes a truth-maintenance component as an integral part of the pattern-matching logic. The technology behind the LOOM matcher uses an inference engine called a classiier to pe...

INTRODUCTION.............................................................................336 I. THE DOCTRINAL DIMENSION ....................................................336 II. THE NORMATIVE DIMENSION...................................................342 A. On Becoming Marks .......................................................343 B. Distinctiveness Versus Functionality ......................

Animals within groups need to coordinate their reactions to perceived environmental features and to each other in order to safely move from one point to another. This paper extends our previously published work on the flight patterns of Myotis velifer that have been observed in a habitat near Johnson City, Texas. Each evening, these bats emerge from a cave in sequences of small groups that typi...

This article is not the first to go by the name "Truth and Meaning". It is preceded by a homonymously titled paper published by Donald Davidson in 1967, a seminal paper on the topic of truth-theoretic semantics for natural languages. It seems appropriate that "Truth and Meaning", (Davidson 1967) should loom large in this article. I will say something about previous work in the area, go on to di...