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SYNTHESE
2011
12 years 11 months ago
2011
: ic models invariably involve some degree of idealization, abstraction, or fictionalization of their target system. Nonetheless, I argue that there are circumstances under which s...
KI
2008
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Springer
ed from context by seeing an explanation inferentially, much in the same way that early expert systems saw an explanation as chaining of inferences. This approach omitted, for the ...
SYNTHESE
2008
2008
How experimental algorithmics can benefit from Mayo's extensions to Neyman-Pearson theory of testing
13 years 4 months ago
Although theoretical results for several algorithms in many application domains were presented during the last decades, not all algorithms can be analyzed fully theoretically. Exp...
CPHYSICS
2004
13 years 4 months ago
2004
There has been dramatic progress in the scope and power of plasma simulations in recent years; and because codes are generally cheaper to write, to run and to diagnose than experi...
AAMAS
2002
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Springer
Abstract. How and where are the universal features of language specified? We consider language users as situated agents acting as conduits for the cultural transmission of language...