This paper studies how languages are shaped by the cognitive costs that using them involves. We introduce a new continuous approach to characterize the optimal resolution of the trade-off between the precision of a language and the complexity of the structures it uses, and its dependence on the...

This study concerns the development of decision support systems, UTASTAR method, with a Visual Basic for Application (VBA) programming environment in Excel spreadsheets. UTASTAR is a linear regression method for analyzing the respondent's preferences, while the VBA programming language is the...

This volume contains a collection of invited, peer-reviewed papers that each highlights a particular system, language, model or paradigm from one of the computational disciplines, aimed at researchers and practitioners from the other fields. The 15 papers cover a wide range of relevant topics;...