Laguerre geometry provides a simple approach to the design of rational curves and surfaces with rational offsets. These so-called PH curves and PN surfaces can be constructed from...
Conceptual integration—"blending"—is a general cognitive operation on a par with analogy, recursion, mental modeling, conceptual categorization, and framing. It serv...
Abstract. This paper presents a novel formalization of optimality theory. Unlike previous treatments of optimality in computational linguistics, starting with Ellison 1994, the n...
Abstract. The rational approach to pharmaceutical drug design begins with an investigation of the relationship between chemical structure and biological activity. Information gaine...
Abstract. Crime pattern analysis has tended to focus on `hotspot’ analysis techniques; the identi® cation of areas with higher densities of criminal activity. This paper documen...