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UAI
2008
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Church: a language for generative models
Formal languages for probabilistic modeling enable re-use, modularity, and descriptive clarity, and can foster generic inference techniques. We introduce Church, a universal langu...
Noah Goodman, Vikash K. Mansinghka, Daniel M. Roy,...
AAAI
2000
13 years 9 months ago
What Sensing Tells Us: Towards a Formal Theory of Testing for Dynamical Systems
Just as actions can have indirect effects on the state of the world, so too can sensing actions have indirect effects on an agent's state of knowledge. In this paper, we inve...
Sheila A. McIlraith, Richard B. Scherl
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Cut Elimination for a Logic with Induction and Co-induction
Proof search has been used to specify a wide range of computation systems. In order to build a framework for reasoning about such specifications, we make use of a sequent calculus...
Alwen Tiu, Alberto Momigliano
ISCI
2008
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Safety, domain independence and translation of complex value database queries
This paper considers the theory of database queries on the complex value data model with external functions. Motivated by concerns regarding query evaluation, we first identify re...
Hong-Cheu Liu, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Weifa Liang
JSS
2008
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Specification, decomposition and agent synthesis for situation-aware service-based systems
Service-based systems are distributed computing systems with the major advantage of enabling rapid composition of distributed applications, such as collaborative research and deve...
Stephen S. Yau, Haishan Gong, Dazhi Huang, Wei Gao...