A time-stamp system allows to maintain in a distributed way a total order among a set of objects by assigning them some labels or time-stamps. An elementary operation consists in moving one of these objects from the ith position to the rst one by only modifying its time-stamp. We introduce the notion of interpolation system, which generalizes the previous notion by allowing the objects to move ...

The present paper addresses the process and the results of the interpretation of the integral text of “Le Petit Prince” (Little Prince), the famous novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, from French into UNL. The original text comprised 1,684 interpretation units (15,513 words), which were sorted according to their similarity, from the shortest to the longest ones, and which were then projected int...

Abstract The rise in inequality in the last two decades has affected most developed economies. The systemic nature of this inequality is the focus of this paper. A combination of product market internationalization, financial globalization and technological changes favoring large organizations created asymmetric pressure on the two ends of the distribution of market incomes, resulting in greatl...

When considering the wide range of object-oriented programming languages, one hardly ever finds methods to be first-class entities. At first sight, this phenomenon seems to be caused by a concern for an efficient implementation. Closer inspection however, reveals more subtle grounds that are rooted in issues more fundamental than performance. This paper investigates this aspect of object-orient...

La découverte en 1965 par Penzias et Wilson du fond de rayonnement cosmologique diffus à 3 K a définitivement fait du modèle du Big Bang chaud le cadre général de la cosmologie moderne. Ces trois dernières décennies ont été marquées par de nombreux progrès tant théoriques qu’observationnels qui n’ont fait que confirmer sa validité, et de préciser petit à petit les détails de ce scénario. Parmi ...