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JSYML
1998
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13 years 5 months ago
Superdestructibility: A Dual to Laver's Indestructibility
Abstract. After small forcing, any <κ-closed forcing will destroy the supercompactness and even the strong compactness of κ. In a delightful argument, Laver [L78] proved that ...
Joel David Hamkins, Saharon Shelah
LPAR
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The Four Sons of Penrose
Abstract. We distill Penrose’s argument against the “artificial intelligence premiss”, and analyze its logical alternatives. We then clarify the different positions one can...
Nachum Dershowitz
WDAG
1993
Springer
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13 years 9 months ago
Fairness of N-party Synchronization and Its Implementation in a Distributed Environment
Fairness is an important concept in design and implementation of distributed systems. At the specification level, fairness usually serves as an assumption for proving liveness. At ...
Cheng Wu, Gregor von Bochmann, Ming Yu Yao
LPNMR
2009
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Manifold Answer-Set Programs for Meta-reasoning
Abstract. In answer-set programming (ASP), the main focus usually is on computing answer sets which correspond to solutions to the problem represented by a logic program. Simple re...
Wolfgang Faber, Stefan Woltran
JSYML
2011
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12 years 8 months ago
Ramsey-like cardinals
This paper continues the study of the Ramsey-like large cardinals introduced in [Git09] and [WS08]. Ramsey-like cardinals are defined by generalizing the “existence of elementar...
Victoria Gitman