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NIPS
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Comparing Beliefs, Surveys, and Random Walks
Survey propagation is a powerful technique from statistical physics that has been applied to solve the 3-SAT problem both in principle and in practice. We give, using only probabi...
Erik Aurell, Uri Gordon, Scott Kirkpatrick
IGPL
1998
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13 years 5 months ago
A Brief Note About Rott Contraction
One of the ways to model contraction functions for belief sets is epistemic entrenchment. The first step was provided by G¨ardenfors in [5], who defined epistemic entrenchment ...
Eduardo L. Fermé, Ricardo Oscar Rodrí...
CORR
2000
Springer
91views Education» more  CORR 2000»
13 years 5 months ago
Multi-Agent Only Knowing
Levesque introduced the notion of only-knowing to precisely capture the beliefs of a knowledge base. He also showed how only-knowing can be used to formalize non-monotonic behavio...
Joseph Y. Halpern, Gerhard Lakemeyer
SP
2010
IEEE
210views Security Privacy» more  SP 2010»
13 years 9 months ago
Reconciling Belief and Vulnerability in Information Flow
Abstract—Belief and vulnerability have been proposed recently to quantify information flow in security systems. Both concepts stand as alternatives to the traditional approaches...
Sardaouna Hamadou, Vladimiro Sassone, Catuscia Pal...
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
The measurement of ranks and the laws of iterated contraction
: Ranking theory delivers an account of iterated contraction; each ranking function induces a specific iterated contraction behavior. The paper shows how to reconstruct a ranking f...
Matthias Hild, Wolfgang Spohn