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SEMWEB
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Axiomatic First-Order Probability
Most languages for the Semantic Web have their logical basis in some fragment of first-order logic. Thus, integrating first-order logic with probability is fundamental for represen...
Kathryn B. Laskey
LICS
2012
IEEE
11 years 11 months ago
A Higher-Order Distributed Calculus with Name Creation
—This paper introduces HOpiPn, the higher-order pi-calculus with passivation and name creation, and develops an equivalence theory for this calculus. Passivation [Schmitt and Ste...
Adrien Piérard, Eijiro Sumii
LICS
2000
IEEE
14 years 27 days ago
The Role of Decidability in First Order Separations over Classes of Finite Structures
We establish that the decidability of the first order theory of a class of finite structures ¢ is a simple and useful condition for guaranteeing that the expressive power of FO...
Steven Lindell, Scott Weinstein
IFIP
2000
Springer
14 years 3 days ago
Information Technology and the Cultural Reproduction of Social Order: A Research Paradigm
This paper introduces the critical social theory of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. The objective of Bourdieu's theoretical framework is to uncover the buried organizatio...
Lynette Kvasny, Duane P. Truex
CADE
2003
Springer
14 years 8 months ago
Optimizing Higher-Order Pattern Unification
Abstract. We present an abstract view of existential variables in a dependently typed lambda-calculus based on modal type theory. This allows us to justify optimizations to pattern...
Brigitte Pientka, Frank Pfenning