Induction and abduction are well known non-deductive inferences. We shall propose that design is also another form of non-deductive inference, and, based on Barwise and Seligman...
The central problem in computational mechanism design is the tension between incentive compatibility and computational ef ciency. We establish the rst significant approximability ...
Christos H. Papadimitriou, Michael Schapira, Yaron...
Abstract. This paper explores using information about program branch probabilities to optimise reconfigurable designs. The basic premise is to promote utilization by dedicating mo...
is the level of abstraction: a logical model ignores the constraints that the underlying database technology imposes and presents a simplified view. Sometimes physical database des...
Software design is a cognitively challenging task. Most software design tools provide support for editing, viewing, storing, and transforming designs, but lack support for the ess...