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Agency, Norms, Inquiry, and Artifacts: Essays in Honor of Risto Hilpinen

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Agency, Norms, Inquiry, and Artifacts: Essays in Honor of Risto Hilpinen

Paul McNamara, "Agency, Norms, Inquiry, and Artifacts: Essays in Honor of Risto Hilpinen "
English | ISBN: 3030907481 | 2022 | 269 pages | PDF | 4 MB

Trends in Logic: 50 Years of Studia Logica

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Trends in Logic: 50 Years of Studia Logica

Trends in Logic: 50 Years of Studia Logica by Vincent F. Hendricks, Jacek Malinowski
English | PDF (True) | 2003 | 387 Pages | ISBN : 1402016018 | 37 MB

Precisely 50 years ago the first volume of Studia Logica appeared. The present volume celebrates the 50th Anniversay of Studia Logica - An Inter- national Joumal for Symbolic Logic. The papers in this Anniversary volume are the results of the two conferences Trends in Logic - 50 Years of Studia Logica.

Informatics: 10 Years Back. 10 Years Ahead

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Informatics: 10 Years Back. 10 Years Ahead

Informatics: 10 Years Back. 10 Years Ahead by Reinhard Wilhelm
English | PDF | 2001 | 379 Pages | ISBN : 3540416358 | 6.3 MB

Informatics - 10 Years Back, 10 Years Ahead presents a unique collection of expository papers on major current issues in the field of computer science and information technology. The 26 contributions written by leading researchers on personal invitation assess the state of the art of the field by looking back over the past decade, presenting important results, identifying relevant open problems, and developing visions for the decade to come.

Argumentation Machines: New Frontiers in Argument and Computation

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Argumentation Machines: New Frontiers in Argument and Computation

Argumentation Machines: New Frontiers in Argument and Computation by Chris Reed, Timothy J. Norman
English | PDF (True) | 2004 | 258 Pages | ISBN : 1402018118 | 28.9 MB

In the late 1990s, AI witnessed an increasing use of the term 'argumentation' within its bounds: in natural language processing, in user interface design, in logic programming and nonmonotonic reasoning, in Al's interface with the legal community, and in the newly emerging field of multi-agent systems. It seemed to me that many of these uses of argumentation were inspired by (of­ ten inspired) guesswork, and that a great majority of the AI community were unaware that there was a maturing, rich field of research in Argumentation Theory (and Critical Thinking and Informal Logic) that had been steadily re­ building a scholarly approach to the area over the previous twenty years or so. Argumentation Theory, on its side; was developing theories and approaches that many in the field felt could have a role more widely in research and soci­ ety, but were for the most part unaware that AI was one of the best candidates for such application.

A Programmed Review for Electrical Engineering, Second Edition

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A Programmed Review for Electrical Engineering, Second Edition

A Programmed Review for Electrical Engineering, Second Edition by James H. Bentley
English | PDF | 1984 | 295 Pages | ISBN : 0442216289 | 16.2 MB

The field of electrical engineering is very innovative-new products and new ideas are continu­ ally being developed. Yet all these innovations are based on the fundamental principles of electrical engineering: Ohm's law, Kirchhoff's laws, feedback control, waveforms, capacitance, resistance, inductance, electricity, magnetism, current, voltage, power, energy. It is these basic fundamentals which are tested for in the Professional Engineering Examination (PE Exam). This text provides an organized review of the basic electrical engineering fundamentals. It is an outgrowth of an electrical engineering refresher course taught by the author to candidates preparing for the Professional Engineering Examination-a course which has enabled scores of electrical engineers in Minnesota and Wisconsin to successfully pass the PE Exam.

Correct Reasoning: Essays on Logic-Based AI in Honour of Vladimir Lifschitz

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Correct Reasoning: Essays on Logic-Based AI in Honour of Vladimir Lifschitz

Correct Reasoning: Essays on Logic-Based AI in Honour of Vladimir Lifschitz by Esra Erdem, Joohyung Lee, Yuliya Lierler, David Pearce
English | PDF | 2012 | 602 Pages | ISBN : 3642307426 | 10.1 MB

This Festschrift published in honor of Vladimir Lifschitz on the occasion of his 65th birthday presents 39 articles by colleagues from all over the world with whom Vladimir Lifschitz had cooperation in various respects. The 39 contributions reflect the breadth and the depth of the work of Vladimir Lifschitz in logic programming, circumscription, default logic, action theory, causal reasoning and answer set programming.

Lingua Universalis vs. Calculus Ratiocinator: An Ultimate Presupposition of Twentieth-Century Philosophy (Repost)

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Lingua Universalis vs. Calculus Ratiocinator: An Ultimate Presupposition of Twentieth-Century Philosophy (Repost)

Lingua Universalis vs. Calculus Ratiocinator: An Ultimate Presupposition of Twentieth-Century Philosophy by Jaakko Hintikka
English | PDF | 1997 | 290 Pages | ISBN : 0792342461 | 33 MB

R. G. Collingwood saw one of the main tasks of philosophers and of historians of human thought in uncovering what he called the ultimate presuppositions of different thinkers, of different philosophical movements and of entire eras of intellectual history. He also noted that such ultimate presuppositions usually remain tacit at first, and are discovered only by subsequent reflection. Collingwood would have been delighted by the contrast that constitutes the overall theme of the essays collected in this volume. Not only has this dichotomy ofviews been one ofthe mostcrucial watersheds in the entire twentieth-century philosophical thought. Not only has it remained largely implicit in the writings of the philosophers for whom it mattered most.

The VHDL Handbook

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The VHDL Handbook

The VHDL Handbook by David R. Coelho
English | PDF | 1989 | 397 Pages | ISBN : 0792390318 | 22 MB

This book is intended to be a working reference for electronic hardware de­ signers who are interested in writing VHDL models. A handbook/cookbook approach is taken, with many complete examples used to illustrate the fea­ tures of the VHDL language and to provide insight into how particular classes of hardware devices can be modelled in VHDL. It is possible to use these models directly or to adapt them to similar problems with minimal effort. This book is not intended to be a complete reference manual for the VHDL language. It is possible to begin writing VHDL models with little background in VHDL by copying examples from the book and adapting them to particular problems. Some exposure to the VHDL language prior to using this book is recommended. The reader is assumed to have a solid hardware design background, preferably with some simulation experience. For the reader who is interested in getting a complete overview of the VHDL language, the following publications are recommended reading: • An Introduction to VHDL: Hardware Description and Design [LIP89] • IEEE Standard VHDL Language Reference Manual [IEEE87] • Chip-Level Behavioral Modelling [ARMS88] • Multi-Level Simulation of VLSI Systems [COEL87] Other references of interest are [USG88], [DOD88] and [CLSI87] Use of the Book If the reader is familiar with VHDL, the models described in chapters 3 through 7 can be applied directly to design problems.

Prolog: The Next 50 Years

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Prolog: The Next 50 Years

Prolog: The Next 50 Years by David S. Warren, Veronica Dahl, Thomas Eiter, Manuel V. Hermenegildo, Robert Kowalski, Francesca Rossi
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 399 Pages | ISBN : 303135253X | 66.3 MB

This volume was motivated by the Year of Prolog initiative, launched to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the emergence of Prolog through the work of Alain Colmerauer’s team in Marseille. The volume editors, authors, and scientific advisors and reviewers have been the leading researchers and programmers in this field over decades, and the book represents an excellent overview of the field, its successes, and its future.

Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime

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Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime

Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime by Vesselin Petkov
English | PDF (True) | 2009 | 320 Pages | ISBN : 3642019528 | 4.1 MB

This expanded second edition of Relativity and the Nature of Spacetime c- tains several major changes and a number of additions to different ch- ters. Two chapters (Chaps. 6 and 7), which discussed two speci?c groups of arguments against the reality of spacetime, have been transformed into - pendices (A and B). Two new chapters (Chaps. 6 and 10) have been added. Chapter 6, entitled Why Is the Issue of the Nature of Spacetime So Imp- tant?, elaborates on what was Sect. 5. 6 of the ?rst edition, and addresses some recent work on the nature of spacetime – for example, the growing (or evolving) block universe model of the world, which has recently been - vived by several physicists as what appears to be the last remaining alter- tive to the Minkowski absolute four-dimensional world (after it had become an undeniable fact that three-dimensionalism, or presentism, contradicts the relativistic experimental evidence). Chapter 10, entitled Spacetime and the Nature of Quantum Objects and based on what used to be Sects. 6. 2 and 6. 3 in the ?rst edition, explores the implications of the issue of the nature of spacetime for quantum physics, in order to see whether it can provide some insight into the nature of quantum objects. Two new sections have been included, namely, Sect. 5. 6 entitled Re- tivization of Existence and Observers in General Relativity and Sect. 7. 6 - titled Probing the Anisotropic Velocity of Light by a Terrestrial Experiment.

Progress in Applications of Boolean Functions

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Progress in Applications of Boolean Functions

Progress in Applications of Boolean Functions by Tsutomu Sasao
English | PDF | 153 Pages | ISBN : 160845181X | 1.3 Mb

This book brings together five topics on the application of Boolean functions. They are
1. Equivalence classes of Boolean functions: The number of n-variable functions is large, even for values as small as n = 6, and there has been much research on classifying functions. There are many classifications, each with their own distinct merit.

Dynamic Semantics (Repost)

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Dynamic Semantics (Repost)

Dynamic Semantics by Paul J.E. Dekker
English | PDF | 2012 | 128 Pages | ISBN : 940074868X | 1.2 MB

The integrated theory of dynamic interpretation set out here will be a surprise to advanced researchers in linguistics. It combines classical formal semantics and modern dynamic semantics without altering the fundamental paradigm. At the book’s core lies a pragmatically motivated notion of a dynamic conjunction of meanings, an idea that is worked out in full formal detail. This is applied to linguistic phenomena that involve anaphora, quantification and modality. The author demonstrates that in each area of application existing data can be neatly combined with new dynamic insights, but more importantly, there is a genuine further pay-off: the work generates treatments of phenomena that were not initially intended, with functional readings of pronouns and quantifiers, ‘Hob-Nob’ sentences, and insights into what we now call ‘Pierce’s Puzzle’.

Reversible Logic Synthesis: From Fundamentals to Quantum Computing

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Reversible Logic Synthesis: From Fundamentals to Quantum Computing

Reversible Logic Synthesis: From Fundamentals to Quantum Computing by Anas N. Al-Rabadi
English | PDF | 2004 | 448 Pages | ISBN : 3540009353 | 5 MB

This book presents for the first time comprehensive and systematic methods for the reversible synthesis of logic functions and multi-dimensional logic circuits. This methodology is able to solve major problems in system design today and in the future, namely the high rate of power consumption, and the emergence of quantum effects and properties for highly dense and nano-scale ICs. The challenge is to design nano-scale reliable systems that consume as little power as possible and in which the signals are processed and transmitted at very high speeds with very high signal integrity. Researchers in academia or industry and graduate students, who work in logic synthesis, computer design, computer-aided design tools, and low power VLSI circuit design, will be interested in this book.

David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundations of Arithmetic and Logic 1917-1933

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David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundations of Arithmetic and Logic 1917-1933

David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundations of Arithmetic and Logic 1917-1933 by William Ewald
English/Deutsch | PDF | 2013 | 1082 Pages | ISBN : 3540205780 | 8.2 MB

The core of Volume 3 consists of lecture notes for seven sets of lectures Hilbert gave (often in collaboration with Bernays) on the foundations of mathematics between 1917 and 1926. These texts make possible for the first time a detailed reconstruction of the rapid development of Hilbert’s foundational thought during this period, and show the increasing dominance of the metamathematical perspective in his logical work: the emergence of modern mathematical logic; the explicit raising of questions of completeness, consistency and decidability for logical systems; the investigation of the relative strengths of various logical calculi; the birth and evolution of proof theory, and the parallel emergence of Hilbert’s finitist standpoint.

Inquiry as Inquiry: A Logic of Scientific Discovery

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Inquiry as Inquiry: A Logic of Scientific Discovery

Inquiry as Inquiry: A Logic of Scientific Discovery by Jaakko Hintikka
English | PDF | 1999 | 298 Pages | ISBN : 079235477X | 32 MB

Is a genuine logic of scientific discovery possible? In the essays collected here, Hintikka not only defends an affirmative answer; he also outlines such a logic. It is the logic of questions and answers. Thus inquiry in the sense of knowledge-seeking becomes inquiry in the sense of interrogation. Using this new logic, Hintikka establishes a result that will undoubtedly be considered the fundamental theorem of all epistemology, viz., the virtual identity of optimal strategies of pure discovery with optimal deductive strategies. Questions to Nature, of course, must include observations and experiments. Hintikka shows, in fact, how the logic of experimental inquiry can be understood from the interrogative vantage point. Other important topics examined include induction (in a forgotten sense that has nevertheless played a role in science), explanation, the incommensurability of theories, theory-ladenness of observations, and identifiability.