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ECIS
2000
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The Exercise of Power and Information Systems Strategy: The Need for a New Perspective
- Computer based information systems (IS) in work-based organisation are generally acknowledged as incorporating a social as well as technical dimension. Information system strateg...
K. S. Horton
ALIFE
2006
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Understanding Linguistic Evolution by Visualizing the Emergence of Topographic Mappings
We show how cultural selection for learnability during the process of linguistic evolution can be visualized using a simple iterated learning model. Computational models of linguis...
Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby
ENTCS
2007
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A Head-to-Head Comparison of de Bruijn Indices and Names
Often debates about pros and cons of various techniques for formalising lambda-calculi rely on subjective arguments, such as de Bruijn indices are hard to read for humans or nomin...
Stefan Berghofer, Christian Urban
SYNTHESE
2008
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Structural realism and Davidson
Structural realism is an attempt to balance the competing demands of the No Miracles Argument and the Pessimistic Meta-Induction. In this paper I trace the development of the struc...
Jack Ritchie
SYNTHESE
2008
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The pathology of validity
Abstract Stephen Read has presented an argument for the inconsistency of the concept of validity. We extend Read's results and show that this inconsistency is but one half of ...
James A. Woodbridge, Bradley Armour-Garb