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2010
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
I Don't Want to Think About it Now: Decision Theory with Costly Computation
Computation plays a major role in decision making. Even if an agent is willing to ascribe a probability to all states and a utility to all outcomes, and maximize expected utility,...
Joseph Y. Halpern
ICDT
1999
ACM
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A Framework for the Investigation of Aggregate Functions in Database Queries
Abstract. In this paper we present a new approach for studying aggregations in the context of database query languages. Starting from a broad de nition of aggregate function, we ad...
Luca Cabibbo, Riccardo Torlone
IPPS
1998
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
A Molecular Quasi-Random Model of Computations Applied to Evaluate Collective Intelligence
The paper presents how the Random PROLOG Processor (RPP), a bio-inspired model of computations, can be used for formalization and analysis of a phenomenon - the Collective Intelli...
Tadeusz Szuba
ISTCS
1993
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Analog Computation Via Neural Networks
We pursue a particular approach to analog computation, based on dynamical systems of the type used in neural networks research. Our systems have a xed structure, invariant in time...
Hava T. Siegelmann, Eduardo D. Sontag
STOC
1989
ACM
96views Algorithms» more  STOC 1989»
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Optimal Size Integer Division Circuits
Division is a fundamental problem for arithmetic and algebraic computation. This paper describes Boolean circuits of bounded fan-in for integer division  nding reciprocals that...
John H. Reif, Stephen R. Tate