capacity for language can account for qualitative and quantitative differences among college-age adults in several aspects of language comprehension. One aspect is syntactic modularity: The larger capacity of some individuals permits interaction among syntactic and pragmatic information, so

Although several process modeling languages allow one to specify processes with multiple start elements, the precise semantics of such models are often unclear, both from a pragmatic and from a theoretical point of view. This paper addresses the lack of research on this problem and introduces

Abstract. Although several process modeling languages allow one to specify processes with multiple start elements, the precise semantics of such models are often unclear, both from a pragmatic and from a theoretical point of view. This paper addresses the lack of research on this problem

We present the concept of hierarchical instantiation for radiosity. This new method enables an efficient, yet accurate determination of the illumination in very large scenes, where similar objects are replaced by instances of the same element. Instances are equipped with suitable radiative

The KNOBS [ENGELMAN 801 planning system is an experimental expert system which assists a user by instantiating 8 stereotypical solution to his problem. SKU=, the natural language understanding component of KNOBS, can engage in a dialog with the user to allow him to enter components of a plan

Abstract. Quantifier reasoning in Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) is a long-standing challenge. The practical method employed in modern SMT solvers is to instantiate quantified formulas based on heuristics, which is not refutationally complete even for pure first-order logic. We present

, such as soundness, completeness or termination, immediately carry over to the modern DPLL implementations with features such as backjumping or clause learning. We then extend the framework to Satisfiability Modulo background Theories (SMT) and use it to model several variants of the so-called lazy approach for SMT

This paper provides a (standard-model) notion of security for (keyed) hash functions, called UCE, that we show enables instantiation of random oracles (ROs) in a fairly broad and systematic way. Goals and schemes we consider include deterministic PKE; message-locked encryption; hardcore functions

Abstract. Deep Instantiation allows for a compact representation of models with multiple instantiation levels where clabjects combine object and class facets and allow to characterize the schema of model elements several instantiation levels below. Clabjects with common properties may

signature is known as the RSA Full Domain Hash signature scheme (RSA-FDH). In fact, prior work has shown several “uninstantiability ” results for various abstractions of RSA-FDH, where the RSA function was replaced by a family of trapdoor random permutations, or the hash function instantiating the random