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COGSCI
2004
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14 years 9 months ago
Children's causal inferences from indirect evidence: Backwards blocking and Bayesian reasoning in preschoolers
Previous research suggests that children can infer causal relations from patterns of events. However, what appear to be cases of causal inference may simply reduce to children rec...
David M. Sobel, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Alison Gopnik
IJCAI
2003
14 years 11 months ago
Layered Mereotopology
In fields such as medicine, geography, and mechanics, spatial reasoning involves reasoning about entities—for example cavities and invading particles—that may coincide without...
Maureen Donnelly
CCGRID
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
An Extensible Resource Discovery Mechanism for Grid Computing Environments
Grid computing is emerging as a new infrastructure to provide collaborative and secure resource sharing over multiple geographically distributed organizations. In this scenario, r...
Tania Gomes Ramos, Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves d...
AAAI
2008
14 years 12 months ago
Partially Synchronized DEC-MDPs in Dynamic Mechanism Design
In this paper, we combine for the first time the methods of dynamic mechanism design with techniques from decentralized decision making under uncertainty. Consider a multi-agent s...
Sven Seuken, Ruggiero Cavallo, David C. Parkes
SIGSOFT
2005
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Towards a unified formal model for supporting mechanisms of dynamic component update
The continuous requirements of evolving a delivered software system and the rising cost of shutting down a running software system are forcing researchers and practitioners to fin...
Junrong Shen, Xi Sun, Gang Huang, Wenpin Jiao, Yan...