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MKM
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Biform Theories in Chiron
An axiomatic theory represents mathematical knowledge declaratively as a set of axioms. An algorithmic theory represents mathematical knowledge procedurally as a set of algorithms....
William M. Farmer
SOFSEM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
When Analysis Fails: Heuristic Mechanism Design via Self-correcting Procedures
Abstract. Computational mechanism design (CMD) seeks to understand how to design game forms that induce desirable outcomes in multiagent systems despite private information, self-i...
David C. Parkes
ESORICS
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
A Theory of Runtime Enforcement, with Results
This paper presents a theory of runtime enforcement based on mechanism models called MRAs (Mandatory Results Automata). MRAs can monitor and transform security-relevant actions and...
Jay Ligatti, Srikar Reddy
POPL
2012
ACM
12 years 25 days ago
A type theory for probability density functions
There has been great interest in creating probabilistic programming languages to simplify the coding of statistical tasks; however, there still does not exist a formal language th...
Sooraj Bhat, Ashish Agarwal, Richard W. Vuduc, Ale...
CMSB
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Expressive Models for Synaptic Plasticity
We explore some presynaptic mechanisms of the calyx of Held synapse through a stochastic model. The model, drawn from a kinetic approach developed in literature, exploits process c...
Andrea Bracciali, Marcello Brunelli, Enrico Catald...