8:30 am Discussion on Soundness 9:15 am break 9:30 am Research presentations The Soundness of Bugs is What Matters, Patrice

, or interitem similarity. Does rehearsal occur only during stimulus input, or does it also occur during response output? Does it matter whether one rehearses based primarily on sound, or is it necessary to access meaning in order to maintain the activation of permanent knowledge? The idea of the standard "

interaction of message valence by the apparent gender of the profile owner, F(1, 339) = 6.47, p = .01, h 2 = .02. Female profile owners were rated more physically attractive when their profiles showed positive comments from friends, M = 3.98, SD = 1.29, 43 N = 80, than when the statements were negative, M = 3

modified, in part, so that full noun phrases were substituted in place of referential expressions. This improvement suggests that texts with few referential expressions may be easier than ones with many referential expressions. • Rhetorical organizers. • Fronted structures. • Serial position effects

-ideas, suggestions and general comments. Some ideas were cautionary comments, such as the need for ensuring culturally-sensitive music care practices, or the importance of attending to patient safety with regards to sound cues (i.e. call bells). Other ideas were questions such as, "What about

for researchers, in part, because their focus has been on what makes leaders rather than on what breaks them. Most researchers conducting leadership studies have investigated positive, linear determinants and have attempted to specify which personality characteristics are present in attributions of successful

Effective support for custom proof automation is essential for large-scale interactive proof develop-ment. However, existing languages for automation via tactics either (a) provide no way to specify the behavior of tactics within the base logic of the accompanying theorem prover, or (b) rely on advanced type-theoretic machinery that is not easily integrated into established theorem provers. We present Mtac, a lightweight but powerful extension to Coq that supports dependently typed tactic programming. Mtac tactics have access to all the features of ordinary Coq programming, as well as a new set of typed tactical primitives. We avoid the need to touch the trusted kernel type-checker of Coq by encapsulating uses of these new tactical primitives in a monad, and instrumenting Coq so that it executes monadic tactics during type inference. 1

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The principle aim of this dissertation is to investigate the philosophical application of quantum information theory to interpretational issues regarding the theory of quantum mechanics. Recently, quantum information theory has emerged as a potential source for such an interpretation. The main question with which this dissertation will be concerned is whether or not an information-theoretic interpretation can serve as a conceptually acceptable interpretation of quantum mechanics. It will be argued that some of the more obvious approaches – that quantum information theory shows us that ultimately the world is made of information, and quantum Bayesianism – fail as philosophical interpretations of quantum mechanics. However, the information-theoretic approach of Clifton, Bub, and Halvorson introduces Einstein’s distinction between principle theories and constructive theories, arguing that quantum mechanics is best understood as an information-theoretic principle theory. While I argue that this particular approach fails, it does offer a viable new philosophical role for information theory. Specifically, an investigation of interpretationally successful principle theories such as Newtonian mechanics, special relativity, and general

Abstract Supporting database schema evolution repre-sents a long-standing challenge of practical and theoretical importance for modern information systems. In this paper, we describe techniques and systems for automating the critical tasks of migrating the database and rewriting the legacy applications. In addition to labor saving, the ben-efits delivered by these advances are many and include reliable prediction of outcome, minimization of downtime, system-produced documentation, and support for archiving, historical queries, and provenance. The PRISM/PRISM++ system delivers these benefits, by solving the difficult prob-lem of automating the migration of databases and the rewrit-ing of queries and updates. In this paper, we present the PRISM/PRISM++ system and the novel technology that made it possible. In particular, we focus on the difficult and previously unsolved problem of supporting legacy queries and updates under schema and integrity constraints evolution. The PRISM/PRISM++ approach consists in providing the users with a set of SQL-based Schema Modification Opera-tors (SMOs), which describe how the tables in the old schema are modified into those in the new schema. In order to sup-port updates, SMOs are extended with integrity constraints