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REPLICATION
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Stumbling over Consensus Research: Misunderstandings and Issues
Abstract The consensus problem has recently emerged as a major interest in systems conferences, yet the systems community tends to ignore most of the large body of theory on this s...
Marcos Kawazoe Aguilera
JSYML
2010
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A proof of completeness for continuous first-order logic
Continuous first-order logic has found interest among model theorists who wish to extend the classical analysis of “algebraic” structures (such as fields, group, and graphs) ...
Arthur Paul Pedersen, Itay Ben-Yaacov
ML
2008
ACM
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A theory of learning with similarity functions
Kernel functions have become an extremely popular tool in machine learning, with an attractive theory as well. This theory views a kernel as implicitly mapping data points into a ...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum, Nathan Srebro
AML
2008
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13 years 3 months ago
Model theory of the regularity and reflection schemes
Abstract. This paper develops the model theory of ordered structures that satisfy Keisler's regularity scheme, and its strengthening REF(L) (the reflection scheme) which is an...
Ali Enayat, Shahram Mohsenipour
NN
2007
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Hierarchical approaches to understanding consciousness
There has been much discussion of what a scientific theory of consciousness would look like, and even whether such a theory is possible. Some common misunderstandings of the natur...
L. Andrew Coward, Ron Sun
MSCS
2007
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On the status of perturbation theory
Perturbation theory has always been an important part of natural sciences. From celestial mechanics to quantum theory of fields it has always played a central role that this litt...
Thierry Paul
TON
2002
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Some properties of variable length packet shapers
The min-plus theory of greedy shapers has been developed after Cruz's results on the calculus of network delays. An example of greedy shaper is the buffered leaky bucket cont...
Jean-Yves Le Boudec
TCS
2002
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Binary (generalized) Post Correspondence Problem
An instance of the (Generalized) Post Correspondence Problem is during the decision process typically reduced to one or more other instances, called its successors. In this paper ...
Vesa Halava, Tero Harju, Mika Hirvensalo
RAS
1998
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Towards a theory of delegation for agent-based systems
In this paper a theory of delegation is presented. There are at least three reasons for developing such a theory. First, one of the most relevant notions of "agent" is b...
Cristiano Castelfranchi, Rino Falcone
LOGCOM
2002
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Two Logical Theories of Plan Recognition
We present a logical approach to plan recognition that builds on Kautz's theory of keyhole plan recognition, defined as the problem of inferring descriptions of high-level pl...
Wayne Wobcke