As prior research on terms of address has not provided a unified functional analysis, I have drawn from various approaches and studies, among which are face and politeness theory and alignment patterns.

Monotonic set games with restricted coalitions;

Beginning from the fact that the social division o f labour benefits the chains of increasing values,we analyse the environment of the objective economy the coalition is facing.

The Soviet Union s foreign policy has transformed from supporting KMT to neutrality and mediation, then from supporting CCP to Sino-Soviet alliance, and finally transformed into wartime alliance.

By analyzing ontology association and hierarchy,the ontology integration method was proposed which was classified as: ontology mapping,ontology alignment and ontology merging.