: In this paper we describe a general way of formalizing reasoning behaviour. Such a behaviour may be described by all the patterns which are valid for the behaviour. A pattern can...
Recently, Portfolio Theory (PT) has been proposed for Information Retrieval. However, under non-trivial conditions PT violates the original Probability Ranking Principle (PRP). In...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen
The past decade has seen a remarkable resurgence of the old programme of finding more or less a priori axioms for the mathematical framework of quantum mechanics. The new impetus...
Abstract--Combination rules proposed so far in the DempsterShafer theory of evidence, especially Dempster rule, rely on a basic assumption, that is, pieces of evidence being combin...
Jianbing Ma, Weiru Liu, Didier Dubois, Henri Prade
Abstract. We have formalized material from an introductory real analysis textbook in the proof assistant Scunak. Scunak is a system based on set theory encoded in a dependent type ...