Theory of Automata

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Animatic apparatus; history of animism; history of mechanism; animation; animatic automaton; animatic; automaton; robot; cyborg; vital machine; cinema; anima; plasmaticness; simulacrum; lifedeath; the living dead; the uncanny; simulation; representation; the Death Drive; the evil demon; the crypt, the haunted house, of cinema; cinema studies; animation studies; theory of animation; Film Studies; film theory; film philosophy; philosophy; humanities; J. David Bolter; Ctesibius, Hero of Alexandria, and Philo of Byzantium; Jacques de Vaucanson; Pierre Jacquet-Droz; Frederik L. Schodt; Mary Shelley; Frankenstein; René Descartes; La Mettrie; Donald Crafton; David F. Channell; Sergei Eisenstein; Roland Barthes; Jacques Derrida; Sigmund Freud; Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe; the Mystic Writing Pad; Thierry Kuntzel; Sigvard Strandh; Gilles Deleuze; Jean Baudrillard; Philip Brophy; Franz Kafka; Plato; Jean-Pierre Vernant; Tom Gunning; C.W. Ceram; Villiers de l’Isle-Adam; L’Eve future; Blade Runner

Wireless Sensor Networks have potential for different applications, especially for environment monitoring, such as in agriculture. The aim is to present the formalization of a technique to minimize the power consumption of sensor nodes in a Wireless Sensor Network. This technique considers the use of Adaptive Automata in the routing data process in Wireless Sensor Networks, integrated with embedded systems in agricultural vehicles that control the mobile sink node. The use of Adaptive Automata aims to enable the sensor network to dynamically vary the sampling data. Thus, the sensor network is expected to automatically use long intervals while collecting data within a range of values considered normal or acceptable. However, when the nodes collect data considered outside the normal range, the sampling rate is expected to be reduced; as a result, the sensor network will monitor the phenomenon in more detail. With the implementation of this strategy, energy consumption is saved at every sensor node in the network, without losing efficiency in the monitoring of phenomena. The formalization of the technique is modeled using Adaptive Automata and Adaptive Decision Table, which feature adaptive actions to dynamically adjust the sampling rate of sensor nodes.

Use of Computational and Automata Theory is common now a day in lexical analysis in compilers and programming languages, morphological analysis, image compression, bioinformatics etc. However in computer games and computing game theory its use is not widespread. This paper summarizes the design of an arcade game using automata theory tools. Deterministic finite state automaton (DFSA) and non-deterministic finite state automaton (NDFSA) are used primarily in various levels of designing the game.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest no sólo fue un
gran entretenimiento. Detrás de este gran éxito del 2006 hay
mucha tela para cortar: Desde su apego a la tradición del cine
de piratas hasta su lógica de videojuego, las aventuras de
Jack Sparrow merecen revisarse más allá del simple
blockbuster que muchos críticos quisieron ver.

Two films, Gattaca and Autómata, have broached scientific topics that are noteworthy for their moral and societal impacts.  Gattaca presents a vision of the future that means, variously, a society further delineated by looks, abilities, health, and intelligence, with all these characteristics chosen when a child is still just a fertilized zygote.  Autómata, portrays robots that aid humanity in surviving a global cataclysm, but then humankind is left with being on the verge of an existential crisis owing to the robots' own sentience.  Thus, both Gattaca and Autómata offer two visions of the future, neither of which bodes well for humanity.

This research will concern about different ways to implement the
Hopcroft's algorithm for minimization finite state automata. We
will pay a particular attention to the non deterministic step
(C,a) ← some(S). We implement three more strategies: random,
bigger and smaller-size set and using the LIFO strategies studied
by Manuel Baclet and Claire Paggetti, after we test and verify
with Sturmian, Bruijn, Fibonacci and random circular words. We
see there is not particular differences between each strategies.

The fourth of eight chapters from "Grace and Gravity: Architectures of the Figure." The argumentation builds on terminology introduced in the first three chapters, the most important being the phased structure of the figure: prefiguration, figuration, and transfiguration. Also, the earlier developed interdependence of motion and standstill that we encounter both in beauty and in grace, is here expanded in the relationship between the mineral, animal, and vegetal.

Una de las perspectivas interesantes que no suelen abordarse en los  estudios académicos y  en general a las visiones de "producto-experiencia", es el tema de los vídeo juegos como "software",  siendo relativamente sencillo encontrar quienes apelan a vender los vídeo juegos como nuevas formas de servicios,  algún tipo de arte pos-moderno y en el peor de los casos "tecno-magia", sin razón aparente acerca de su funcionamiento.

Con esto en mente y partiendo de la base de que el vídeo juego es software y de la idea del  "video-game computer" esta entrada atiende a la pregunta:  ¿Cómo es el vídeo juego desde la perspectiva de la ciencia clásica de la computación,  teoría de autómatas?

An important part of the contemporary debate on human nature was shaped by debates taking place in early modern Europe in the attempt to remove the animal part of the human mind by turning it into an abstract monad while converting the body into a machine. Humans gained the promise of certain and universal knowledge (mathesis universalis) but began thinking of themselves as automata, bereft of individuality and real agency. Much of the questions raised back then resonate with us still nowadays:

                Is human nature something immutable or is it the product of history and social conventions?

                Do humans even have a nature? And what does it mean for humans to have a nature and to what extent does biology condition what we are?

                Is human nature something immutable or is it the product of history and social conventions?

                Is it desirable to use technology to enhance the desirable characteristics of the human species?

                What instruments, images, analogies, models and literary strategies were used to further such a project?

                How does the early modern debate on automata and man-machine (homme machine) predates the modern on transhumanism and posthumanism?

                How does the debate evolve after the eighteenth century?

The 2022 round of the VivaMente Conference in the History of Ideas aims at exploring such questions from a multidisciplinary approach, bringing together scholars from different fields, interests and periods. The conference is thought to take place as an open debate, with keynote speakers discussing the early modern philosophical and ethical implications of mechanical philosophy and with attendees focusing on the modern and postmodern impact of the early modern debate. By doing so, the conference aims to bring the research about the automata up to date and to connect historians of philosophy, arts and literature with researchers of transhumanism and artificial intelligence.

Today, the characteristic tropes and patterns that once defined the course of early modern mechanical philosophy are witnessing an extraordinary resurgence of interest among scientists, scholars and lay people concerned with the fate of human beings. The reasons are numerous and of various kinds: the outstanding progress of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the pervasive influence of the Internet of things (IoT) and the combined synergy of neuroscience and nanotechnology, to mention only the most relevant ones. Philosophically speaking, the field of possibilities is growing by the day. If a new La Mettrie were to live today, his Homme-machine would have to cope with the exponential growth of experimental evidence and scientific theorizations.

Thus, this Vivamente Conference intends to shed new light on the early modern origins of automata, to discuss the impact of their legacy throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and, finally, to ask the fundamental question of how to update our knowledge – in both theoretical and moral terms – concerning automata and automation as we are confronted by a staggering and constantly evolving volume of information and innovations on the subject.

Discussions will also address the field of post-human and trans-human speculations. The future is looming with the possibility of increasingly sophisticated mechanical minds in addition to the more familiar – both philosophically and technologically – mechanical bodies.

9 th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioscience (ICBB 2022) is the application of information science and technology to the field of biology to increase the understanding of all biological process. The aim of this conference is to publish all the latest and outstanding research articles in all areas of bioinformatics and Biometrics. Researchers and scientists from the fields of biology, computer science, mathematics, statistics and physics are invited to share their developments and new techniques in the fields of Biometrics and Bioinformatics.

Meditaremos las máquinas primitivas, el software, el algoritmo y el problema algorítmico. Posteriormente una introducción al maquinas de estado y el lenguaje formal, con breves ejemplos. Exploraremos los tipos de maquinas de estado en vídeo juegos y del vídeo juego autómata . Repasaremos algunos temas de teoría de juegos proceso estocástico, triunfo-fracaso, y algunas consideraciones de las mecánicas o gameplay. Finalizando con unas cortas palabras finales.

Although Philip Mirowski’s work has been profoundly influential in fields as diverse as economics, history of science, political theory, and even literary studies, it is less well-known in the emerging complex of fields which are sometimes referred to as “digital studies,” meaning all the fields that directly analyze the social, cultural, and political-economic impact of the computer. This is unfortunate enough from the perspective of political economy, since Mirowski’s writings on neoliberalism resonate strongly with some of the most incisive political-economic work in digital studies. It is even more unfortunate when Mirowski’s work is seen at a larger scale, wherein he emerges as one of the most serious thinkers anywhere regarding the myriad impacts of the computer, especially but not only on intellectual practice over the last hundred or so years. From his writings on the neoliberal grounding of concepts like “open science,” to his recent “fictionalist” account of the function of information in economics, and especially in his thorough and uncompromising analysis of the computer and its metaphorics across a variety of disciplines in Machine Dreams, Mirowski’s work constitutes an unmatched source of critical thought that deserves to be far more widely disseminated among scholars of the digital.

Dynamic epistemic logic (DEL) extends purely modal epistemic logic (S5) by adding dynamic operators that change the model structure.  Propositional dynamic logic (PDL) extends basic modal logic with programs that allow the definition of complex modalities. We provide a common generalisation:  a logic that is `dynamic' in both senses, and one that is not limited to S5 as its modal base.  It also incorporates, and significantly generalises, all the features of existing extensions of DEL such as  BMS [1] and LCC [2].  Our dynamic operators work in two steps. First, they provide a multiplicity of transformations of the original model, one for each `action' in a purely syntactic `action model' (in the style of BMS).  Second, they specific how to combine these multiple copies to produce a new model.  In each step, we use the generality of PDL to specify the transformations. The main technical contribution of the paper is to provide an axiomatisation of this `general dynamic dynamic logic' (GDDL).  This is done by providing a computable translation of GDDL formulas to equivalent PDL formulas, thus reducing the logic to PDL, which is decidable.  The proof involves switching between representing programs as terms and as automata. We also show that both BMS and LCC are special cases of GDDL, and that there are interesting applications that require the additional generality of GDDL, namely the modelling of private belief update.

[1] Baltag, A., L. S. Moss and S. Solecki, The logic of public announcements, common knowledge and private suspicious, Technical Report SEN-R9922, CWI, Amsterdam (1999).

[2] van Benthem, J., J. van Eijck and B. Kooi, Logics of communication and change,
Information and computation 204 (2006), pp. 1620–1662.

International Journal of Information Science & techniques (IJIST) focuses on system modeling and information techniques in real engineering and scientific problems This journal provides a forum that impacts the development of scientific computing, complex systems, control theory, signal and image processing, scheduling, data mining, discrete systems. It also acts as a path to exchange novel ideas about new modeling techniques.

A new understanding of the technical object is emerging to perplex and rescramble
debates on new materialisms, speculative philosophies, relation realisms, and vitalist
ontologies. Working from within an ethics of co-enmeshment, this volume will bring
together the question of the technical object and the question of ecosophy to put on
display the singular artistry of artifacts. In bringing forth the environmental dimension of the technical object, the essays in this volume will delve into the ontological status of technical objects in artistic practice while taking a closer look at the onto-ethical
implications of intra-artifactual interweaving.

So far, the conceptual atmospheres surrounding the technosphere, artistic or otherwise, have been shaped in the terms of simian consumerism. Any discussion of the technical object is cast in the vocabulary of an ascribed economic, emotional, or intellectual value. This volume will shift towards an ecosophy of artifacts to explore the intricate mesh of the technical and the artistic beyond modes of valorisation and insignia of co-dependence.

The volume encourages submissions that look at technical objects as a wealth of relations fully indifferent to a simian universe and explore vocabularies for the articulation of these relations. Of special interest are the excavations of conceptual regions that preclude epistemological points of entry and call for novel ways of engagement with our practices of perceiving and knowing. The collection will hypothesise that technical objects express these unexplored relations most fully in artistic practice.

ABSTRACT This article presents a software tool for the synthesis of supervisory control based on untimed finite state automata. The tool has a friendly graphical interface for the creation of models and, among other features, allows: automata simulation; analysis of problems related to the implementation of the control logic; and code generation for multiple devices. The code generation is based on a template system that allows the easy inclusion of support for new devices. Currently the tool is able to generate code for some microcontrollers and programmable logic controllers. Another feature of the tool is the capability of being easily extended with new algorithms and modules.

While monadic second-order logic is a prominent logic for specifying languages of finite words, it lacks the power to compute quantitative properties, e.g. to count. An automata model capable of computing such properties are weighted automata, but logics equivalent to these automata have only recently emerged. We propose a new framework for adding quantitative properties to logics specifying Boolean properties of words. We use this to define Quantitative Monadic Second-Order Logic (QMSO). In this way we obtain a simple logic which is equally expressive to weighted automata. We analyse its evaluation complexity, both data and combined complexity, and show completeness results for combined complexity. We further refine the analysis of this logic and obtain fragments that characterise exactly subclasses of weighted automata defined by the level of ambiguity allowed in the automata. In this way, we define a quantitative logic which has good decidability properties while being resonably expressive and enjoying a simple syntactical definition. I. INTRODUCTION Using logics as specification languages for properties of finite and infinite words or trees has a long history in computer science. Of particular importance in this context is Monadic Second-Order Logic (MSO), the extension of first-order logic by quantification over sets of positions in the input word (see e.g. [23], [10]). The prominence of MSO as logic over words has many causes: It is a very expressive and yet simple logic in which many properties can be expressed very naturally. In fact, Büchi's classical theorem [6] states that a language is recognisable by a finite state automaton if, and only if, it is definable in MSO. Hence, MSO can define precisely the regular languages and provides an elegant specification mechanism for regular properties. Furthermore , the proof of the theorem is algorithmic which implies that MSO formulas can effectively be compiled into finite automata which can then be run in linear time on any input word. Finally, MSO has very good decidability properties and standard problems such as satisfiability and therefore equivalence and containment of formulas are decidable over finite words. While MSO is an elegant and highly successful mechanism for specifying word languages, there are many ap

En esta corta entrada regresaremos al vídeo juego autómata, la máquina cinemática, el cómo interpretaban las aventuras conversacionales y gráficas el lenguaje humano. Seguiremos con los viejos discos plásticos LASER DISC y CD-ROM medios de los primeros filmes interactivos, finalizaremos como Façade uno de los grandes sobrevalorados en este blog, aun cuando el primero es ciertamente ELIZA de 1966 por Joseph Weizenbaum.

El problema del lenguaje del vídeo juego, en este apartado describiré las opciones más destacadas sobre cómo se aborda en la actualidad este complejo tema.
El lenguaje del vídeo juego autómata, una breve introducción a los aportes del Sr. Noam Chomsky  al estudio del lenguaje y en las ciencias de la computación, algunas anotaciones sobre el lenguaje de entrada del vídeo juego.
El lenguaje del “COMBO”, con ayuda de un viejo FAQ de un árcade de pelea llamado  “Killer Instinct Arcade”, mostraré un lenguaje complejo en los vídeo juegos.
Finalmente unas cortas lineas acerca del  VIDEO JUEGO AUTISTA o la MAQUINA CINEMÁTICA moderna, abusando un poco del  “LAST OF US”, un aclamado vídeo juego por la critica.

In this study, a Fuzzy Inference System is developed to create a knowledge-based for the diagnosis and detection of sepsis using Matlab’s fuzzy logic toolbox. The FIS consists of expert-specified input membership functions, output membership function, and IF-THEN rules. To validate our system, we tested it with the domain (medical) expert knowledge by comparing its performance with at least 10 hypothetical scenarios. The KB-FIS gave good answers in 8/10 scenarios and generated rules for decision support. The answers are qualitatively correct but quantitatively small. The fuzzy inference system designed performs as well as the medical experts under controlled conditions. With the methodology used in this study, it is hoped that it can assist in enhancing the knowledge-base system for proper, effective and early diagnosis and detection of sepsis.

Wireless Sensor Networks have potential for different applications, especially for environment monitoring, such as in agriculture. The aim is to present the formalization of a technique to minimize the power consumption of sensor nodes in a Wireless Sensor Network. This technique considers the use of Adaptive Automata in the routing data process in Wireless Sensor Networks, integrated with embedded systems in agricultural vehicles that control the mobile sink node. The use of Adaptive Automata aims to enable the sensor network to dynamically vary the sampling data. Thus, the sensor network is expected to automatically use long intervals while collecting data within a range of values considered normal or acceptable. However, when the nodes collect data considered outside the normal range, the sampling rate is expected to be reduced; as a result, the sensor network will monitor the phenomenon in more detail. With the implementation of this strategy, energy consumption is saved at every sensor node in the network, without losing efficiency in the monitoring of phenomena. The formalization of the technique is modeled using Adaptive Automata and Adaptive Decision Table, which feature adaptive actions to dynamically adjust the sampling rate of sensor nodes.

In this paper we will attempt to classify Lindenmayer systems based on properties of sets of rules and the kind of strings those rules generate. This classification will be referred to as a 'parametrization' of the L-space: the L-space is the phase space in which all possible L-developments are represented. This space is infinite, because there is no halting algorithm for L-grammars; but it is also subjected to hard conditions, because there are grammars and developments which are not possible states of an L-system: a very well-known example is the space of normal grammars. Just as the space of normal grammars is parametrized into Regular, Context-Free, Context-Sensitive, and Unrestricted (with proper containment relations holding among them; see Chomsky, 1959: Theorem 1), we contend here that the L-space is a very rich landscape of grammars which cluster into kinds that are not mutually translatable.

A crucial issue in the Software Cost Estimation area that has attracted the interest of software project managers is the selection of the best prediction method for estimating the cost of a project. Most of the prediction techniques estimate the cost from historical data. The selection of the best model is based on accuracy measures that are functions of the predictive error, whereas the significance of the differences can be evaluated through statistical procedures. However, statistical tests cannot be applied easily by non-experts while there are difficulties in the interpretation of their results. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the utilization of a visualization tool, the Regression Error Characteristic curves in order to compare different prediction models easily, by a simple inspection of a graph. Moreover, these curves are adjusted to accuracy measures appeared in Software Cost Estimation literature and the experimentation is based on two well-known datasets.

In this paper, we study the data interoperability problem of web services in terms of XML schema compatibility. When Web Service A sends XML messages to Web Service B, A is interoperable with B if B can accept all messages from A. That is, the XML schema R for B to receive XML instances must be compatible with the XML schema S for A to send XML instances, i.e., A is a subschema of B. We propose a formal model called Schema Automaton (SA) to model W3C XML Schema (XSD) and develop several algorithms to perform different XML schema computations. The computations include schema minimization, schema equivalence testing, subschema testing, and subschema extraction. We have conducted experiments on an e-commerce standard XSD called xCBL to demonstrate the practicality of our algorithms. One experiment has refuted the claim that the xCBL 3.5 XSD is backward compatible with the xCBL 3.0 XSD. Another experiment has shown that the xCBL XSDs can be effectively trimmed into small subschemas for specific applications, which has significantly reduced the schema processing time.

In this paper, we propose new models and algorithms to perform practical computations on W3C XML Schemas, which are schema minimization, schema equivalence testing, subschema testing and subschema extraction. We have conducted experiments on an e-commerce standard XSD called xCBL to demonstrate the e?ectiveness of our algorithms. One experiment has refuted the claim that the xCBL 3.5 XSD is compatible with the xCBL 3.0 XSD. Another experiment has shown that the xCBL XSDs can be effectively trimmed into small subschemas for specific applications, which has significantly reduced schema processing time.

Deoxyribonucleic Acid(DNA) is a series of genes made by the mixture of nucleotides. The adjustment in the succession of these nucleotides can alter the hereditary data that bring about numerous disarranges in living life forms. There are methods in theoretical computer science such as Finite Automata, Mealy machine and Moore machine to examine patterns of DNA and analyze any change in nucleotides to prevent various genetic disorders. In the present study, these three methods were combined to evaluate their performance. It was found that the Mealy machine is much better as compared to others because it has less states, and react faster to inputs don't need for clock.

At least since Aristotle (Poetics, XX), and as emphasized by Saussure (1916), the dual character of linguistic terms –comprising both sound and meaning- has been recognized as central to natural language. Generative Linguistics has traditionally separated sound and meaning systems, and their respective representations (Chomsky, 1965, et seq.), so that only syntax derives structure, whereas the sound and meaning components are purely interpretive: a departure from European structuralism, according to which sound and meaning are intimately related and in tension (Tesniere, 1959), and also aspects of Glossematics (Hjelmslev, 1961), in which two continua, expression and content, are partitioned in what is called the form of expression and the form of content.
In this talk we depart from the Generative model, and explore the consequences of adopting a ‘syntax-as-partitioning’ approach where sound and meaning are in tension, configuring a dynamical frustration (Binder, 2008; Saddy, 2016). We propose that we are dealing with ultrametric high-dimensional fields which configure vector spaces. Given a perturbation to this system, these are parametrized and operated on syntactically. Following Saddy and expanding on Krivochen (2016), we consider the consequences of adopting a field-theoretic approach whereby syntax is a set of topological operations which, by changing the landscape of the off-phase sound (‘phonotactic’) and meaning (‘conceptual’) fields, creates structured manifolds. When syntactic operations change the topological properties of the fields from ultrametric to metric, those manifolds get closer and intersect, triggering the fading of a dimensional attractor and squeezing the core properties of the manifolds into a lower-dimensional, metrized, normal space by means of the center manifold theorem (CMT, Carr, 2006). This approach follows Tesnière and Hjelmslev insofar as (a) the computational operations available in both high-dimensional and low-dimensional spaces are defined by the sound/meaning antinomie; and (b) syntax is not a set of functions operating over discrete symbols but a fundamentally topological mechanism operating over continuous spaces, partitioning them and providing them with a metric, creating manifolds, and getting those closer together until they intersect. A derivation, we claim, oscillates between high- and low- dimensional spaces cyclically, atomizing structure via the CMT.
This approach leads to a straightforward definition of derivational cycles in syntactic computations over manifolds, and separates hard conditions from soft conditions in language as a dynamical system. We expand on the idea that a dependency can be established only if the relevant elements belong to the same workspace when the dependency is established. A cycle is thus defined by the dynamics of the metric-ultrametric interface via the CMT. They are both maximal and minimal units: they are minimally interpretable because nothing smaller can be assigned a semantic interpretation. They are maximally generable, because once a critical value for the manifold being generated is reached, a dimensional attractor fades, and no further structure can be built up in that derivational current.

Microscopic traffic flow models are a class of scientific models of vehicular traffic dynamics. Here, we attempted to establish an experimental platform for mimicking microscopic traffic flow models at microscopic dimensions. We achieved this, by monitoring the flow of micro-sized particles transported by the motile cells of living microorganisms. Some researchers have described the cells of protozoan species as "swimming neurons" or "swimming sensory cells" applicable to biological micro-electro- mechanical systems or micro-biorobotics. Therefore these cells, in a controlled environment, may form a good model system for bio-implementable cellular automata for traffic simulation. The living cells of the Paramecium species including those of green paramecia (Paramecium bursaria), actively migrate towards a negatively charged electrode when exposed to an electric field. This type of cellular movement is known as galvanotaxis. P. bursaria was chosen as amodel organismsince the ideal micro-vehicles required for micro-particle transport must have a particular particle packing capacity within the cells. The present study establishes that the movement of cells with or without the loading of microspheres (φ, 9.75 μm) can be controlled on a two-dimensional plane under strict electrical controls. Lastly, implementation of microchips equipped with optimally sized micro-flow channels that allow the single-cell traffic of swimming P. bursaria was proposed for further studies and mathematical modeling.

Runtime monitoring is a widely used approach to ensure code safety. Several
implementations of formal monitors have been proposed in the literature, and these differ
with respect to the set of security policies that they are capable of enforcing. In this survey,
we examine the evolution of knowledge regarding the issue of precisely which security
policies monitors are capable of enforcing.We identify three stages in this evolution. In the
first stage, we discuss initial limits on the set of enforceable properties and various ways in
which this set can be extended. The second stage presents studies that identify constraints
to the enforcement power of monitors. In the third stage, we present a final series of studies
that suggest various alternative definitions of enforcement, which specify both the set of
properties the monitors can enforce as well as the manner by which this enforcement is
provided.

will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Computer Science & Technology. The goal of this Conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding Modern Computer Science & Technology concepts and establishing new collaborations in these areas.

In the Middle Ages, articulating religious figures like wooden Deposition crucifixes and ambulatory saints were tools for devotion, techno-mythological objects that distilled the wonders of engineering and holiness. Robots are gestures toward immortality, created in the face of the undeniable fact and experience of the ongoing decay of our fleshy bodies. Both like and unlike human beings, robots and androids occupy a nebulous perceptual realm between life and death, animation and inanimation. Masahiro Mori called this in-between space the “uncanny valley.” In this essay I argue that unlike a modern person apprehending an android (the uncanny humanlike object that resides in the space between what is essentially human and what is essentially not human), the physical animation of late medieval devotional objects fulfilled the expectations of their puppeteers and audiences to move. Glittering precious metals and stones, liturgical music, and other environmental properties of the sanctuary materially inferred the presence and action of saints on earth, greatly enhancing the affective lives of devotees. I focus on later medieval Spanish statues of the Virgin in order to transcend their familiar aesthetic and religious interpretations of anthropomorphic statues, and explore instead their functional aspects and performative relationships between ritual objects and their users.

9 th International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science & Technology (CST 2022) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Computer Science & Technology. The goal of this Conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding Modern Computer Science & Technology concepts and establishing new collaborations in these areas. Authors are solicited to contribute to the Conference by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the areas of Computer Science & Technology.

Soliton circuits are among the most promising alternatives for molecular electronic devices based on the design of molecular level conventional digital circuits. In order to capture the logical and computational aspects of these circuits, a mathematical model called soliton automaton was introduced by Dassow and Jurgensen in 1990.

Dynamic epistemic logic (DEL) extends purely modal epistemic logic (S5) by adding dynamic operators that change the model structure. Propositional dynamic logic (PDL) extends basic modal logic with programs that allow the definition of complex modalities. We provide a common generalisation: a logic that is 'dynamic'in both senses, and one that is not limited to S5 as its modal base. It also incorporates, and significantly generalises, all the features of existing extensions of DEL such as BMS [1] and LCC [15]. ...

Bienvenidos a esta largo articulo divulgativo dedicada a temas de la promoción de las ciencias y el vídeo juego, en la cual  les prometo encontrarán mucha física, probabilidad  y estadística mediante matemáticas muy básicas. Verificaremos muchos temas en ciencias  matemáticas, probabilidad  y estadística. Siempre abordando los temas de manera  divulgativa, distendida y didáctica.

Исследуются комбинаторно-алгебраические основы анализа дискретных систем: поиск решений на частично-упорядоченных структурах, идентификация состояний конечного автомата, построение простых импликант и состоящих из них ДНФ, идентификация булевой вектор-функции методами теории линейных пространств над конечными полями

RÉSUMÉ. Nous présentons une implémentation flexible et originale de la distance d’édition : la composition filtrée, un type particulier de composition de deux machines à états finis au travers d’un filtre qui modélise l’ensemble des opérations d’édition valides. Le filtre est un transducteur pondéré ou une cascade de transducteurs pondérés. Il est obtenu par compilation de règles de réécriture qui profitent d’un nouveau concept défini dans notre bibliothèque de machines à états finis: le marqueur de règles, un symbole qui n’appartient pas à l’alphabet utilisé, mais est inséré dans une règle de réécriture afin d’identifier un phénomène et d’en suivre l’évolution. Les marqueurs désambiguïsent et facilitent l’expression de conditions et de contraintes. La méthode est illustrée dans le cadre de la correction des mots hors vocabulaire.

ABSTRACT. We present an original and flexible implementation of the edit-distance: the filtered composition, a special kind of composition of two finite-state machines through a filter that models all valid edit-operations. The filter is either a weighted transducer or a cascade of weighted transducers. It is built from weighted rewrite rules that take advantage of a new concept defined in our finite-state framework: the rules’ marker, a symbol that does not belong to the alphabet in use, but is inserted into a rewrite rule in order to mark a phenomenon and to track its evolution. Markers disambiguate and make it easy to express conditions and constraints. The method is illustrated on the task of correcting out-of-vocabulary words.

MOTS-CLÉS : distance d’édition, composition filtrée, marqueurs de règles, correction orthographique.

11 th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEAPP 2022) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Software Engineering and Applications. The goal of this Conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding Modern software engineering concepts and establishing new collaborations in these areas. Authors are solicited to contribute to the Conference by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the areas of software engineering & applications.

In this our second participation in the CLEF Spanish monolingual track, we have continued applying Natural Language Processing techniques for single word and multi-word term con- ation. Two dierent conation approaches have been tested. The rst approach is based on the lemmatization of the text in order to avoid inectional variation. Our second approach consists of the employment of syntactic dependencies as complex index terms, in an attempt to solve the problems derived from syntactic variation and, in this way, to obtain more precise terms. Such dependencies are obtained through a shallow parser based on cascades of nitestate transducers.

ABSTRACT While monadic second-order logic is a prominent logic for specifying languages of finite words, it lacks the power to compute quantitative properties, e.g. to count. An automata model capable of computing such properties are weighted automata, but logics equivalent to these automata have only recently emerged. We propose a new framework for adding quantitative properties to logics specifying Boolean properties of words. We use this to define Quantitative Monadic Second-Order Logic (QMSO). In this way we obtain a simple logic which is equally expressive to weighted automata. We analyse its evaluation complexity, both data and combined complexity, and show completeness results for combined complexity. We further refine the analysis of this logic and obtain fragments that characterise exactly subclasses of weighted automata defined by the level of ambiguity allowed in the automata. In this way, we define a quantitative logic which has good decidability properties while being resonably expressive and enjoying a simple syntactical definition.