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CGF
1999
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13 years 8 months ago
Modeling and Rendering Escher-Like Impossible Scenes
Inspired by the drawings of "impossible" objects by artists such as M.C. Escher, we describe a mathematical theory which captures some of the underlying principles of th...
Guillermo Savransky, Dan Dimerman, Craig Gotsman
WADT
1998
Springer
14 years 14 days ago
An Algebra of Graph Derivations Using Finite (co-) Limit Double Theories
Graph transformation systems have been introduced for the formal specification of software systems. States are thereby modeled as graphs, and computations as graph derivations acco...
Andrea Corradini, Martin Große-Rhode, Reiko ...
ALDT
2009
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Game Theory without Decision-Theoretic Paradoxes
Most work in game theory is conducted under the assumption that the players are expected utility maximizers. Expected utility is a very tractable decision model, but is prone to w...
Pierfrancesco La Mura
ALIFE
1999
13 years 8 months ago
The Simulated Evolution of Biochemical Guilds: Reconciling Gaia Theory and Natural Selection
Gaia theory, which states that organisms both affect and regulate their environment, poses an interesting problem to Neo-Darwinian evolutionary biologists and provides an exciting ...
Keith L. Downing, Peter Zvirinsky
JOLLI
2002
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Some Notes on the Formal Properties of Bidirectional Optimality Theory
In this paper, we discuss some formal properties of the model of bidirectional Optimality Theory that was developed in Blutner 2000. We investigate the conditions under which bidi...
Gerhard Jäger