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IGPL
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
The Ricean Objection: An Analogue of Rice's Theorem for First-order Theories
We propose here an extension of Rice's Theorem to first-order logic, proven by totally elementary means. If P is any property defined over the collection of all first-order t...
Igor Carboni Oliveira, Walter Alexandre Carnielli
ICNS
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Promise theory - a model of autonomous objects for pervasive computing and swarms
Abstract— The theory of promises describes policy governed services, in a framework of completely autonomous agents, which assist one another by voluntary cooperation alone. We p...
Mark Burgess, Siri Fagernes
JAIR
2011
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13 years 2 months ago
Automated Search for Impossibility Theorems in Social Choice Theory: Ranking Sets of Objects
We present a method for using standard techniques from satisfiability checking to automatically verify and discover theorems in an area of economic theory known as ranking sets o...
C. Geist, Ulrich Endriss
PAMI
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
Relative Fuzzy Connectedness and Object Definition: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications in Image Segmentation
The notion of fuzzy connectedness captures the idea of "hanging-togetherness" of image elements in an object by assigning a strength of connectedness to every possible pa...
Jayaram K. Udupa, Punam K. Saha, Roberto de Alenca...
ITICSE
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Novice Java programmers' conceptions of "object" and "class", and variation theory
Problems with understanding concepts, so called misconceptions, have been investigated and reported in a number of studies regarding object-oriented programming [4], [3]. In a fi...
Anna Eckerdal, Michael Thuné