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JOOP
1998
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13 years 9 months ago
Prelude to a Theory of Void
A set of rules to ascertain that in calls of the form x.f (...) there will always be an object attached to x. 1 PURPOSE The theory developed in this article investigates void call...
Bertrand Meyer
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
What can quantum theory bring to information retrieval
The probabilistic formalism of quantum physics is said to provide a sound basis for building a principled information retrieval framework. Such a framework can be based on the not...
Benjamin Piwowarski, Ingo Frommholz, Mounia Lalmas...
CNSR
2007
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
The Theory of Natural Movement and its Application to the Simulation of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET)
The theory of natural movement is fundamental to space syntax: a set of theories and methods developed in the late 1970s that seeks, at a general level, to reveal the mutual effec...
Nick Sheep Dalton, Ruth Conroy Dalton
MFCS
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The Bidimensional Theory of Bounded-Genus Graphs
Abstract. Bidimensionality provides a tool for developing subexponential fixed-parameter algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems on graph families that exclude a minor....
Erik D. Demaine, Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Dimitr...
MANSCI
2006
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13 years 10 months ago
Stochastic Dominance and Cumulative Prospect Theory
Second order stochastic dominance characterizes risk-averse preferences represented by expected utility. This paper supplies second order stochastic dominance conditions that char...
Manel Baucells, Franz H. Heukamp