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ITP
2010
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13 years 11 months ago
A New Foundation for Nominal Isabelle
Pitts et al introduced a beautiful theory about names and binding based on the notions of permutation and support. The engineering challenge is to smoothly adapt this theory to a t...
Brian Huffman, Christian Urban
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Mathematical Foundations for a Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning
We propose a mathematical framework for a unification of the distributional theory of meaning in terms of vector space models, and a compositional theory for grammatical types, fo...
Bob Coecke, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Stephen Clark
IPMU
1994
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Philosophical Foundations for Causal Networks
Bayes nets are seeing increasing use in expert systems [2, 6], and structural equations models continue to be popular in many branches of the social sciences [1]. Both types of mod...
Glenn Shafer
POPL
2012
ACM
12 years 3 months ago
Algebraic foundations for effect-dependent optimisations
We present a general theory of Gifford-style type and effect annotations, where effect annotations are sets of effects. Generality is achieved by recourse to the theory of algebra...
Ohad Kammar, Gordon D. Plotkin
COORDINATION
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A WSDL-Based Type System for WS-BPEL
We tackle the problem of providing rigorous formal foundations to current software engineering technologies for web services. We focus on two of the most used XML-based languages f...
Alessandro Lapadula, Rosario Pugliese, Francesco T...