In light of the Bakhtinian heteroglossia and authorial hybrid construction, the present study sets out to argue how the assimilation of alien stylistics into the realm of social and ideological discourse may transcend the limits of the centralizing logos prevalent in the orthodox poetics. In so doing, first, an analysis of the Bakhtinian concepts is provided to renegotiate his argument on the a...

Today’s evolution of Ubiquitous Computing and Service Oriented Computing is leading to the development of ContextAware Services. However, the ambiguity of the context concept and the multiplicity of services’ execution contexts make CASs hard to build and show why there is a lack of generic approaches for designing such services. In this paper, we first present our context metamodel based on a ...

In this paper we introduce the concept of Abelian integrals in differential equations for an arbitrary vector bundle on P1 with a meromorphic connection. In this general context we give an upper bound for the numbers we are looking for. Let V be a locally free sheaf (vector bundle) of rank α on P and D = ∑r i=1 mici be a positive divisor in P , i.e. all ci’s are positive. We denote by C the set...

Consider a linear multiplicity free action by a compact Lie group K on a finite dimensional hermitian vector space V . Letting K act on the associated Heisenberg group HV = V × R yields a Gelfand pair. In previous work we have applied the Orbit Method to produce an injective mapping Ψ from the space ∆(K,HV ) of bounded K-spherical functions on HV to the space h ∗ V /K of K-orbits in the dual of...

We discuss here some open issues concerning the problem of modeling signals with low multiplicity within the context of systems theory. In particular we focus on the issue of approximating a stochastic process with a low multiplicity one, and we propose some applications to the theory of interest rates models.

We consider games of strategic substitutes and strategic complements on networks. We introduce two different evolutionary dynamics in order to refine their multiplicity of equilibria, and we analyse the system through a mean field approach. We find that for the best-shot game, taken as a model for substitutes, a replicator-like dynamics does not lead to Nash equilibria, whereas it leads to uniq...

This paper builds on the context-dependent view of work systems diffusion within the manufacturing context across conflicting governance structures. It adopts an integrated understanding into the social constitution of work systems. There is an appreciation of the role of strategic choice, beliefs and power in the adoption of alternative work systems. The study is founded on a systematic compar...

The paper presents an error estimate for RungeKutta direct discretizations of terminal optimal control problems for linear systems. The optimal control for such problems is typically discontinuous, and Lipschitz stability of the solution with respect to perturbations does not necessarily hold. The estimate (in terms of the optimal controls) is of first order if certain recently obtained suffici...

Stochastic multiplicity automata (SMA) are weighted finite automata that generalize probabilistic automata. They have been used in the context of probabilistic grammatical inference. Observable operator models (OOMs) are a generalization of hidden Markov models, which in turn are models for discrete-valued stochastic processes and are used ubiquitously in the context of speech recognition and b...