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TLDI
2009
ACM
169views Formal Methods» more  TLDI 2009»
15 years 6 months ago
Relational parametricity for references and recursive types
We present a possible world semantics for a call-by-value higherorder programming language with impredicative polymorphism, general references, and recursive types. The model is o...
Lars Birkedal, Kristian Støvring, Jacob Tha...
PODS
2006
ACM
156views Database» more  PODS 2006»
15 years 9 months ago
From statistical knowledge bases to degrees of belief: an overview
An intelligent agent will often be uncertain about various properties of its environment, and when acting in that environment it will frequently need to quantify its uncertainty. ...
Joseph Y. Halpern
IFIP
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
Analysing the Information Flow Properties of Object-Capability Patterns
We consider the problem of detecting covert channels within security-enforcing object-capability patterns. Traditional formalisms for reasoning about the security properties of obj...
Toby C. Murray, Gavin Lowe
AAAI
1990
14 years 10 months ago
Practical Temporal Projection
Temporal projection-predicting future states of a changing world-has been studied mainly as a formal problem. Researchers have been concerned with getting the concepts of causalit...
Steve Hanks
PRICAI
2004
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
On the Intended Interpretations of Actions
Abstract. In this paper we address the problem of commonsense reasoning about action by appealing to Occam’s razor—we should accept the simplest hypothesis explaining the obser...
Victor Jauregui, Maurice Pagnucco, Norman Y. Foo