In a 1982 paper in the journal Glossa, Pullum outlined a set of arguments for treating English infinitival to as a defective auxiliary verb. Twenty years later, in his entry on infinitival constructions in The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (CGEL, 2002), Huddleston argues that several distributional facts about auxiliaries fit poorly with this hypothesis. He proposes, on the basis of...

Cross-organizational electronic collaboration is about to gain significant momentum and facilitates the emergence of a globally networked information service economy. However, existing solutions for the realization of such business relationships still exhibit weaknesses with respect to both managerial and technological aspects. In this work, we propose a service-oriented reference architecture ...

With the advent of the multicore era, it is clear that improvements in application performance will require parallelism. Programming models that utilize multiple cores offer promising directions for the future where core counts are expected to increase. There is, hence, a renewed interest in programming models that simplify the reasoning and writing of efficient parallel programs. In this paper...

For Algorithm 3, the input network is not necessarily a connected graph. Lemma II.1, however, only considers the case that the input network satisfying the three conditions (in Lemma II.1) is connected. Then it suffices to show that Algorithm 3 places the minimum number of monitors to ensure that any two non-monitors in G′ (satisfying the three conditions in Lemma II.1) are distinguishable. Suc...