Infinite, recursive versions of NP optimization problems are defined. For example, MAX CLIQUE becomes the question of whether a recursive graph contains an infinite clique. The work was motivated by trying to understa...
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Infinite, recursive versions of NP optimization problems are defined. For example, MAX CLIQUE becomes the question of whether a recursive graph contains an infinite clique. The work was motivated by trying to understand what makes some NP problems highly undecidable in the infinite case, while others remain on low levels of the arithmetical hierarchy. Two results are proved; one enables using knowledge about the infinite case to yield implications to the finite case, and the other enables implications in the other direction. Taken together, the two results provide a method for proving (finitary) problems to be outside the syntactic class MAX NP, hence outside MAX SNP too. The technique is illustrated with many examples.< >
Do complexity classes have many-one complete sets if and only if they have Turing-complete sets? We prove that there is a relativized world in which a relatively natural complexity class—namely a downward closure of ...
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Downward translation (a.k.a. upward separation) refers to cases where the equality of two larger classes implies the equality of two smaller classes. We provide the first unqualified downward translation result comple...
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The topics discussed here are network models of object recognition; a computational theory of recognition; psychophysical support for a view-interpolation model: and an open issue, features of recognition. The authors...
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The topics discussed here are network models of object recognition; a computational theory of recognition; psychophysical support for a view-interpolation model: and an open issue, features of recognition. The authors survey a successful replication of central characteristics of performance in 3-D object recognition by a computational model based on interpolation among a number of stored views of each object. Network models of 3-D object recognition based on interpolation among specific stored views behave in several respects similarly to human observers in a number of recognition tasks. Even closer replication of human performance in recognition should be expected, once the issue of the features used to represent object views is resolved.< >
The study of query order was initiated by Hemaspaandra, Hempel, and Wechsung [HHW]. Their goal was to learn whether the order of access to information sources affects the class of problems that can be solved. They sho...
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One aspect of self-organizing systems is their desired ability to be self-learning, i.e., to be able to adapt dynamically to conditions in their environment. This quality is awkward especially if it comes to applicati...
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One aspect of self-organizing systems is their desired ability to be self-learning, i.e., to be able to adapt dynamically to conditions in their environment. This quality is awkward especially if it comes to applications in security or safety-sensitive areas. Here a step towards more trustful systems could be taken by providing transparency of the processes of a system. An important means of giving feedback to an operator is the visualization of the internal processes of a system. In this position paper we address the problem of visualizing dynamic processes especially in self-learning systems. We take an existing self-learning system from the field of computer vision as an example from which we derive questions of general interest such as possible options to visualize the flow of information in a dynamic learning system or the visualization of symbolic data. As a side effect the visualization of learning processes may provide a better understanding of underlying principles of learning in general, i.e, also in biological systems. That may also facilitate improved designs of future self-learning systems.
XP/Agile education and training remains a challenge from the perspective of determining relevant content;identifying effective methods for delivery;and maintaining the focus and motivation of students. This panel brin...
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The aim of this study has been to develop a mathematical model for water flow and binder migration in coated paper. The model can be used for simulation of the stages starting after the coating applicator, including i...
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The aim of this study has been to develop a mathematical model for water flow and binder migration in coated paper. The model can be used for simulation of the stages starting after the coating applicator, including infrared and air drying sections. On the basis of the model the moisture, temperature and binder distribution can be determined across the paper thickness. Approximating equations concerning the paper properties are used in the model. We have measured the diffusion coefficient between the water and binder substances. Representative numerical examples are presented for separate and combined infrared and air drying processes.
Path dissolution is an inferencing mechanism for classical logic that efficiently generalizes the method of analytic tableaux. Two features that both methods enjoy are (in the propositional case) strong completeness a...
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Critics of present IT support systems reveal a lack of adequate comprehension of the application domain and its components and features at the systemic level. In particular, the distribution of knowledge, its change o...
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Critics of present IT support systems reveal a lack of adequate comprehension of the application domain and its components and features at the systemic level. In particular, the distribution of knowledge, its change over time, and its redistribution induced by tools as a key factor have been under-rated up to now. So, after discussing IT support system deficiencies, we continue with a holistic view on, and a concept for, distributed knowledge, especially for information- and knowledge-rich organisations. The three layers of the concept comprise: knowledge types; the interaction between knowledge stakeholders; and knowledge representation. From there, we proceed to the acquisition of distributed knowledge and to issues on how to manage it.
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