Henning Christiansen Libros

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, CONTEXT 2015, held in Larnaca, Cyprus, in November 2015. The 33 full papers and 13 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The main theme of CONTEXT 2015 was "Back to the roots", focusing on the importance of interdisciplinary cooperations and studies of the phenomenon. Context, context modeling and context comprehension are central topics in linguistics, philosophy, sociology, artificial intelligence, computer science, art, law, organizational sciences, cognitive science, psychology, etc. and are also essential for the effectiveness of modern, complex and distributed software systems. CONTEXT 2015 embedded also a Doctoral Symposium, and three workshops; Smart University 3.0; CATI: Context Awareness and Tactile Design for Mobile Interaction; and SHAPES 3.0: The Shape of Things.

This volume features selected and revised papers, along with contributions from invited speakers, presented at the First International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Language Processing, held in Roskilde, Denmark, from September 1–3, 2004. Constraint Programming, particularly Constraint Logic Programming, is emerging as a highly promising platform for advancing natural language processing due to its natural specification and efficient implementation. The term "language" encompasses written and spoken forms, as well as formal and semi-formal languages, and general input data for multimodal systems, all of which can be managed similarly through constraint programming. The concept of constraints applies to the characterization of linguistic and cognitive phenomena, formal linguistic models, and implementation frameworks. The field is experiencing rapid development of new efficient methods and paradigms that benefit language processing. A prevalent metaphor for human language processing likens it to a large constraint-solving process, where various linguistic and cognitive phases occur in parallel and cooperate, aligning well with contemporary constraint programming paradigms.

ThisvolumeconstitutestheproceedingsoftheSixthInternationalConferenceon Flexible Query Answering Systems, FQAS 2004, held in Lyon, France, on June 24–26, 2004. FQAS is the premier conference for researchers and practitioners concerned with the vital task of providing easy, ? exible, and intuitive access to information for every type of need. This multidisciplinary conference draws on several research areas, including databases, information retrieval, knowledge representation, soft computing, multimedia, and human-computer interaction. With FQAS 2004, the FQAS conference series celebrated its tenth anniversary as it has been held every two years since 1994. The overall theme of the FQAS conferences is innovative query systems aimed at providing easy, ? exible, and intuitive access to information. Such systems are intended to facilitate retrieval from information repositories such as databases, libraries, and the Web. These repositories are typically equipped with standard query systems that are often inadequate for users. The focus of FQAS is the development of query systems that are more expressive, informative, cooperative, productive, and intuitive to use.

Fühlt es sich nicht gelegentlich auch für uns so an, als ob die Welt ganz gut ohne uns auskäme …? Genau dies ist der Alltag des ADMIRALs. Seine großen Schlachten sind geschlagen. Seine Träume zerschellen permanent am Riff der Realität. Wir begleiten einen kleinen Helden durch die Untiefen seiner Existenz. In der tragikomischen Geschichte von Henning Christiansen gehen Bild und Wort Hand in Hand. Je verbissener der Admiral kämpft, umso findiger wird der Reim. DER ADMIRAL ist die hinreißend gezeichnete Geschichte einer vollkommen unzeitgemäßen, unbeholfenen Figur, die hilflos und aktionistisch durch ihre Umwelt stolpert – auf ein Ende zu, das gänzlich unerwartet ausfällt! Ein zeichnerischer Glücksfall. Henning Christiansen sagt: »Wenn wir uns im Admiral wiedererkennen, ist es uns vielleicht möglich, den Widrigkeiten des Lebens mit einer humorvollen Grundhaltung zu trotzen.« Tipp: Die gesamte erste Auflage ist signiert!