It is shown that within the language of Set Theory, if membership is assumed to be non-well-founded a la Aczel, then one can state the existence of infinite sets by means of an there exists there exists for all for al...
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It is shown that within the language of Set Theory, if membership is assumed to be non-well-founded a la Aczel, then one can state the existence of infinite sets by means of an there exists there exists for all for all prenex sentence. Somewhat surprisingly, this statement of infinity is essentially the one which was proposed in 1988 for well-founded sets, and it is satisfied exclusively by well-founded sets. Stating infinity inside the BSR (Bernays Schonfinkel Ramsey) class of the there exists*for all*-sentences becomes more challenging if no commitment is taken as whether membership is well-founded or not: for this case, we produce an there exists there exists for all for all for all-sentence, thus lowering the complexity of the quantificational prefix with respect to earlier prenex formulations of infinity. We also show that no prenex specification of infinity can have a prefix simpler than there exists there exists for all for all. The problem of determining whether a BSR-sentence involving an uninterpreted predicate symbol and = can be satisfied over a large domain is then reduced to the satisfiability problem for the set theoretic class BSR subject to the ill-foundedness assumption. Envisaged enhancements of this reduction, cleverly exploiting the expressive power of the set theoretic BSR-class, add to the motivation for tackling the satisfaction problem for this class, which appears to be anything but unchallenging.
Strong and weak simulation relations have been proposed for Markov chains, while strong simulation and strong probabilistic simulation relations have been proposed for probabilistic automata. This paper investigates w...
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(纸本)9783540712084
Strong and weak simulation relations have been proposed for Markov chains, while strong simulation and strong probabilistic simulation relations have been proposed for probabilistic automata. This paper investigates whether they can be used as effectively as their non-probabilistic counterparts. It presents drastically improved algorithms to decide whether some (discrete- or continuous-time) Markov chain strongly or weakly simulates another, or whether a probabilistic automaton strongly simulates another. The key innovation is the use of parametric maximum flow techniques to amortize computations. We also present a novel algorithm for deciding strong probabilistic simulation preorders on probabilistic automata, which has polynomial complexity via a reduction to an LP problem. When extending the algorithms for probabilistic automata to their continuous-time counterpart, we retain the same complexity for both strong and strong probabilistic simulations.
Strong and weak simulation relations have been proposed for Markov chains, while strong simulation and strong probabilistic simulation relations have been proposed for probabilistic automata. This paper investigates w...
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Strong and weak simulation relations have been proposed for Markov chains, while strong simulation and strong probabilistic simulation relations have been proposed for probabilistic automata. This paper investigates whether they can be used as effectively as their non-probabilistic counterparts. It presents drastically improved algorithms to decide whether some (discrete- or continuous-time) Markov chain strongly or weakly simulates another, or whether a probabilistic automaton strongly simulates another. The key innovation is the use of parametric maximum flow techniques to amortize computations. We also present a novel algorithm for deciding strong probabilistic simulation preorders on probabilistic automata, which has polynomial complexity via a reduction to an LP problem. When extending the algorithms for probabilistic automata to their continuous-time counterpart, we retain the same complexity for both strong and strong probabilistic simulations.
The negative cost cycle detection (NCCD) problem in weighted directed graphs is a fundamental problems in theoretical computer science with applications in a wide range of domains ranging from maximum flows to image s...
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The negative cost cycle detection (NCCD) problem in weighted directed graphs is a fundamental problems in theoretical computer science with applications in a wide range of domains ranging from maximum flows to image segmentation. From the perspective of program verification, this problem is identical to the problem of checking the satisfiability of a conjunction of difference constraints. There exist a number of approaches in the literature for NCCD with each approach having its own set of advantages. Recently, a greedy, space-efficient algorithm called the stressing algorithm was proposed for this problem. In this paper, we present a novel proof of the Stressing algorithm and its verification using the Prototype Verification System (PVS) theorem prover. This example is part of a larger research program to verify the soundness and completeness of a core set of decision procedures. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Wireless technologies, under the "Anywhere, Anytime" paradigm, offer users the promise of being always attached to the network. Mobile devices enabled with multiple wireless technologies make possible to mai...
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Wireless technologies, under the "Anywhere, Anytime" paradigm, offer users the promise of being always attached to the network. Mobile devices enabled with multiple wireless technologies make possible to maintain seamless connectivity in highly dynamic scenarios such as vehicular networks (VNs), switching from one wireless network to another by using vertical handover techniques (VHO). In this paper we present an overview of VHO techniques, along with the main algorithms, protocols and tools proposed in the literature. In addition we suggest the most appropriate VHO techniques to efficiently communicate in VN environments considering the particular characteristics of this type of networks. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
On the characteristics of multi-source and mass data of GIS, this paper analyzes and designs the architecture model of WebGIS based on Multi-agent. Moreover, in order to improve the dynamic processing capacity of the ...
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(纸本)9781424408177
On the characteristics of multi-source and mass data of GIS, this paper analyzes and designs the architecture model of WebGIS based on Multi-agent. Moreover, in order to improve the dynamic processing capacity of the system, the paper makes a further study on the manager-agent decision algorithms of the model.
Electric power transmission systems are comprised of a large number of physical assets, including transmission lines, power transformers, and circuit breakers, that are capital-intensive, highly distributed, and may f...
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(纸本)9783540725831
Electric power transmission systems are comprised of a large number of physical assets, including transmission lines, power transformers, and circuit breakers, that are capital-intensive, highly distributed, and may fail. Managing these assets under resource constraints requires equipment health monitoring integrated with system level decision-making to optimize a number of various operational, maintenance, and investment-related objectives. Industry processes to these ends have evolved ad-hoc over the years, and no systematic structures exist to coordinate the various decision problems. In this paper, we describe our progress in building a prototype structure for this purpose together with a software-hardware environment to deploy and test it. We particularly focus on the decision algorithms and the Benders approach we have taken to solve them in an integrated fashion.
This paper introduces and studies a new type of logical construction, which allows to combine various non-classical propositional logics with the temporal or modal background. The possible candidates include (but are ...
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This paper introduces and studies a new type of logical construction, which allows to combine various non-classical propositional logics with the temporal or modal background. The possible candidates include (but are not restricted to) a number of epistemic, multi-agent, deontological and other well-studied logics. In this construction, that we call refinement, the Kripke structure of a chosen Kripke complete logic is imposed on clusters of the background transitive frame. Refinements fit in a wider framework of fibred logics, while having some unique features. First of all, when applied to classes of frames of Kripke complete logics, refinement preserves good meta-logical properties of constituent logics, in contrast with the well-known products of logics. Another advantage of refinements is that they allow for augmented languages of considerable expressive power, while preserving good meta-logical and semantical properties. In particular we show that refinement of logics preserves the effective finite model property and decidability for a wide class of constituent logics.
The paper investigates a new temporal logic TLDistM, which combines temporal operations with the operations of localised agent's knowledge and operations responsible for measuring distances. The main goal is to co...
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(纸本)9783642132315
The paper investigates a new temporal logic TLDistM, which combines temporal operations with the operations of localised agent's knowledge and operations responsible for measuring distances. The main goal is to construct;a logical framework for modelling logical laws, which describe interactions between such operations. We consider issues of satisfiability and decidability for TLDistM. Our principal result is the algorithm which recognizes theorems of TLDistM, which implies that TLDistM is decidable, and the satisfiability problem for TLDistM, is solvable.
In this paper we address the decision problem for a fragment of unquantified formulae of real analysis, which, besides the operators of Tarski's theory of reals, includes also strict and non-strict predicates expr...
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In this paper we address the decision problem for a fragment of unquantified formulae of real analysis, which, besides the operators of Tarski's theory of reals, includes also strict and non-strict predicates expressing comparison, monotonicity, concavity, and convexity of continuous real functions over possibly unbounded intervals. The decision result is obtained by proving that a formula of our fragment is satisfiable if and only if it admits a parametric "canonical" model, whose existence can be tested by solving a suitable unquantified formula, expressed in the decidable language of Tarski's theory of reals and involving the numerical variables of the initial formula plus various other parameters. This paper generalizes a previous decidability result concerning a more restrictive fragment in which predicates relative to infinite intervals or stating strict concavity and convexity were not expressible. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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