This volume grew out of the Logos Conference, which took place in London on 9–11 September 2004, jointly organized by the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London, and the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. The publicity for the conference stressed the exploratory nature of the event: it sought to bring together scholars with a professional interest in the Greek language f...

Due to the stubborn nature of the deterministic job-shop scheduling problem many solutions proposed are of hybrid construction cutting across the traditional disciplines. The problem has been investigated from a variety of perspectives resulting in several analytical techniques combining generic as well as problem specific strategies. We seek to assess a subclass of this problem in which the ob...

The attempt to translate meaning from one language to another by formal means traces back to the philosophical schools of secret and universal languages as they were originated by Ramon Llull or Johann Joachim Becher. Until today, machine translation (MT) is known as the crowning discipline of natural language processing. Due to current MT approaches, the time needed to develop new systems with...

E pisodic neurological phenotypes make up an interesting and important group of diseases affecting humans. These include disorders of the skeletal and cardiac muscles, peripheral nerves, and brain. They range from episodic weakness syndromes to rare paroxysmal movement disorders. More common episodic phenomena include cardiac arrhythmias, epilepsy syndromes, and headache. Molecular characteriza...

planned in 22 nations in 2010. Despite rapid global motorization, worldwide bicycle use has generally increased during the past 30 years. Indeed, bicycling in Dutch, German, and Danish cities increased between 20% and 43% between 1975 and 1995 (2). Although cycling growth and trends vary worldwide, bikesharing offers a transportation alternative to increase bicycle use by integrating cycling in...