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PET
2009
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
APOD: Anonymous Physical Object Delivery
Delivery of products bought online can violate consumers’ privacy, although not in a straightforward way. In particular, delivery companies that have contracted with a website kn...
Elli Androulaki, Steven M. Bellovin
TACAS
1999
Springer
88views Algorithms» more  TACAS 1999»
15 years 6 months ago
A Theorem Prover-Based Analysis Tool for Object-Oriented Databases
We present a theorem-prover based analysis tool for object-oriented database systems with integrity constraints. Object-oriented database specifications are mapped to higher-order...
David Spelt, Susan Even
113
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TARK
2009
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
A logic of propositional control for truthful implementations
We introduce a logic designed to support reasoning about social choice functions. The logic includes operators to capture strategic ability, and operators to capture agent prefere...
Nicolas Troquard, Wiebe van der Hoek, Michael Wool...
ISIPTA
1999
IEEE
169views Mathematics» more  ISIPTA 1999»
15 years 6 months ago
Dempster-Belief Functions Are Based on the Principle of Complete Ignorance
This paper shows that a "principle of complete ignorance" plays a central role in decisions based on Dempster belief functions. Such belief functions occur when, in a fi...
Peter P. Wakker
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ECSQARU
2005
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Type Uncertainty in Ontologically-Grounded Qualitative Probabilistic Matching
This paper is part of a project to match real-world descriptions of instances of objects to models of objects. We use a rich ontology to describe s and models at multiple levels of...
David Poole, Clinton Smyth