Bøger af Graham Mann

The divided must unite to overcome.Tecta; the beacon of light and guardian of the New Unity has vanished. Four of the five Children of the New Unity have been left to navigate an uncertain path, to a unified future. While Taire has embarked on a voyage of self discovery to assist in his mission to find the Sixth Child of the Unity.The ever present forces of darkness are conspiring to take advantage of the divide, and undo what has been built in the name of peace. They must complete their individual missions, face their own demons and reunite, in order to prevent the darkest of threats from making its own grim vision of the bleakest of futures a reality.The fate of the galaxy is poised on a knife edge.

"The Unity Spire must come to be..." The House of Royals is no more, crushed by the Feruccians, a savage race twisted to the will of a faceless foe. The once peaceful Galaxy has been corrupted, its worlds left to languish in chaos on the brink of implosion and Endless War. Nataalu and her siblings have been hidden from this malevolent force, raised in secret on the ruined world of Veela VI by their loyal Protector Droid. Curious by nature to the point of obsession, her unquenchable desire for knowledge has led to a naïve decision that may have set them all on a path to unimaginable danger. Only through the most unlikely of alliances can the impending darkness be fought, lighting the spark of resistance - for hope, and courage to replace the widespread fear, madness and dismay. The sibling's sheltered lives will be changed forever.....

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS '96, held in Sydney, Australia, in August 1996.The book presents five full papers by the invited speakers together with 15 revised full papers selected for presentation at the conference from a respectable number of submissions. The issues addressed are natural language processing, information retrieval, graph operations, conceptual graph and Peirce theory, knowledge acquisition, theorem proving and CG programming, and order-based organisation and encoding.