The literature contains a wealth of theoretical and empirical analyses of discourse marker functions in human communication. Some of these studies address the phenomenon that discourse markers are often multifunctional in a given context, but do not study this in systematic and formal ways. In this paper we show that the use of multiple dimensions in distinguishing and annotating semantic units...

Knowledge involved in diagnosis of real complex systems comes from human experts and requires appropriate discrete and qualitative representation. The large amount of information resulted is difficult to manage and prepare to enter the diagnosis system without the help of an appropriate tool. The paper proposes a knowledge elicitation scheme for multifunctional conductive flow systems ’ faulty ...

My digital multifunction wristwatch is representative of a class of modern information machines. It has 51 functions controlled by four buttons, but the internal operations of the watch and the pattern of button-presses are obscure to the user. Providing useful instruction for the operation of such machines is notoriously difficult. Standard instructional design (ID) prescriptions for teaching ...

M by the proliferation of multifunction products, we investigate product portfolio decisions of a single firm by analyzing the impact of three major factors. First, because multifunction products provide complete or partial functionalities of single-function products, we incorporate substitution or cannibalization effects between the potential products. Second, we explicitly model the variable ...

The 2WIDE SENSE (WIDE spectral band & WIDE dynamics multifunctional imaging SENSor Enabling safer car transportation) EU funded project is aimed at the development of a low-cost camera sensor for automotive applications able to acquire the full visible to Short Wave InfraRed (SWIR) spectrum, from 400 to 1700 nm. This paper presents the results obtained using this extended spectral responsivity ...

We introduce a new class of multifunctions called a slightly m-continuous multifunction which is a generalization of both slightly continuous functions [10] and m-continuous multifunctions [33]. In this paper we obtain several properties of such a multifunction.

A system that saves a digital copy of every document that users copy, print, or fax, without asking the user, has recently been proposed. Referred to as the Infinite Memory Multifunction Machine (IM3), this system solves most of the problem of lost documents. However, because of the indiscriminate way it captures data, it is important that users have easy-to-use retrieval tools. Two document an...