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PDS
1996
13 years 10 months ago
Towards a theory of shared data in distributed systems
We have developed a theory of sharing which captures the behaviour of programs with respect to shared data into the framework of process algebra. The core theory can describe prog...
Simon A. Dobson, Christopher P. Wadsworth
TPHOL
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Simple Types in Type Theory: Deep and Shallow Encodings
Abstract. We present a formal treatment of normalization by evaluation in type theory. The involved semantics of simply-typed λ-calculus is exactly the simply typed fragment of th...
François Garillot, Benjamin Werner
AAAI
1990
13 years 10 months ago
A Circumscriptive Theory for Causal and Evidential Support
Reasoning about causality is an interesting application area of formal nonmonotonic theories. Here we focus our attention on a certain aspect of causal reasoning, namely causaZ as...
Eunok Paek
ENTCS
2008
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13 years 8 months ago
A Monotonicity Principle for Information Theory
We establish a monotonicity principle for convex functions that enables high-level reasoning about capacity in information theory. Despite its simplicity, this single idea is rema...
Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis, Keye Martin
RULEML
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Superiority Based Revision of Defeasible Theories
We propose a systematic investigation on how to modify a preference relation in a defeasible logic theory to change the conclusions of the theory itself. We argue that the approach...
Guido Governatori, Francesco Olivieri, Simone Scan...