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KR
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A First-Order Theory of Communicating First-Order Formulas
This paper presents a theory of informative communications among agents that allows a speaker to communicate to a hearer truths about the state of the world; the occurrence of eve...
Ernest Davis
GD
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Fast Algorithms for Hard Graph Problems: Bidimensionality, Minors, and Local Treewidth
Abstract. This paper surveys the theory of bidimensional graph problems. We summarize the known combinatorial and algorithmic results of this theory, the foundational Graph Minor r...
Erik D. Demaine, Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi
BIRTHDAY
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Model Theory for Process Algebra
We present a first-order extension of the algebraic theory about processes known as ACP and its main models. Useful predicates on processes, such as deadlock freedom and determini...
Jan A. Bergstra, C. A. Middelburg
SIGECOM
2005
ACM
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Ranking systems: the PageRank axioms
This paper initiates research on the foundations of ranking systems, a fundamental ingredient of basic e-commerce and Internet Technologies. In order to understand the essence and...
Alon Altman, Moshe Tennenholtz
SEFM
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Automatically Proving Concurrent Programs Correct
of abstract interpretations in formal methods It is always very satisfying to hear about a theory, in the case at hand it is the theory of abstract interpretations, that explains i...
Byron Cook
ICCS
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
System Consequence
My paper discusses system consequence, which is a central idea in the project to lift the theory of information flow to the general level of universal logic and the theory of ins...
Robert E. Kent
CALCO
2009
Springer
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Approximating Labelled Markov Processes Again!
Abstract. Labelled Markov processes are continuous-state fully probabilistic labelled transition systems. They can be seen as co-algebras of a suitable monad on the category of mea...
Philippe Chaput, Vincent Danos, Prakash Panangaden...
TACAS
2009
Springer
99views Algorithms» more  TACAS 2009»
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Ground Interpolation for the Theory of Equality
Abstract. Given a theory T and two formulas A and B jointly unsatisfiable in T , a theory interpolant of A and B is a formula I such that (i) its non-theory symbols are shared by ...
Alexander Fuchs, Amit Goel, Jim Grundy, Sava Krsti...