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CACM
2007
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15 years 7 months ago
Is abstraction the key to computing?
ACTION THE KEY TO COMPUTING? Why is it that some software engineers and computer scientists are able to produce clear, elegant designs and programs, while others cannot? Is it poss...
Jeff Kramer
JACM
2007
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15 years 7 months ago
The rational numbers as an abstract data type
onal Numbers as an Abstract Data Type1 J A Bergstra2 University of Amsterdam, Informatics Institute, Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands J V Tucker3 Department of Com...
Jan A. Bergstra, J. V. Tucker
COLCOM
2005
IEEE
16 years 23 days ago
Providing both scale and security through a single core probabilistic protocol
Distributed systems are typically designed for scale and performance first, which makes it difficult to add security later without affecting the original properties. This paper ...
Ramsés Morales, Indranil Gupta
FOCS
1998
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
A Linguistic Characterization of Bounded Oracle Computation and Probabilistic Polynomial Time
We present a higher-order functional notation for polynomial-time computation with arbitrary 0; 1-valued oracle. This provides a linguistic characterization for classes such as np...
John C. Mitchell, Mark Mitchell, Andre Scedrov
METMBS
2003
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15 years 8 months ago
Causal Explorer: A Causal Probabilistic Network Learning Toolkit for Biomedical Discovery
Causal Probabilistic Networks (CPNs), (a.k.a. Bayesian Networks, or Belief Networks) are well-established representations in biomedical applications such as decision support system...
Constantin F. Aliferis, Ioannis Tsamardinos, Alexa...