Frontiers of Combining Systems (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, #8152)
This volume contains the proceedings of FroCoS2000, the 3rd International WorkshoponFrontiersofCombiningSystems,heldMarch22-24,2000,inNancy, France. Like its predecessors organized in Munich (1996) and in Amsterdam (1998), FroCoS2000 is intended to o?er a common forum for research activities related to the combination and the integration of systems in the areas of logic, automateddeduction,constraintsolving,declarativeprogramming,andarti?cial intelligence. There were 31 submissions of overall hi...
Reactive Kripke Semantics (Cognitive Technologies)
by Dov M. Gabbay
This text offers an extension to the traditional Kripke semantics for non-classical logics by adding the notion of reactivity. Reactive Kripke models change their accessibility relation as we progress in the evaluation process of formulas in the model. This feature makes the reactive Kripke semantics strictly stronger and more applicable than the traditional one. Here we investigate the properties and axiomatisations of this new and most effective semantics, and we offer a wide landscape of appl...
The Logic System of Concept Graphs with Negation (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #2892)
by Frithjof Dau
The aim of contextual logic is to provide a formal theory of elementary logic, which is based on the doctrines of concepts, judgements, and conclusions. Concepts are mathematized using Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), while an approach to the formalization of judgements and conclusions is conceptual graphs, based on Peirce's existential graphs. Combining FCA and a mathematization of conceptual graphs yields so-called concept graphs, which offer a formal and diagrammatic theory of elementary logic....
This visionary and engaging book provides a mathematical perspective on the fundamental ideas of numbers, space, life, evolution, the brain and the mind. The author suggests how a development of mathematical concepts in the spirit of category theory may lead to unravelling the mystery of the human mind and the design of universal learning algorithms. The book is divided into two parts, the first of which describes the ideas of great mathematicians and scientists, those who saw sparks of light i...
Scenario Logic and Probabilistic Management of Risk in Business and Engineering (Applied Optimization)
by E D Solojentsev
In this volume, the methodological aspects of the scenario logic and probabilistic (LP) non-success risk management are considered. The theoretical bases of scenario non-success risk LP-management in business and engineering are also stated. Methods and algorithms for the scenario risk LP-management in problems of classification, investment and effectiveness are described. Risk LP- models and results of numerical investigations for credit risks, risk of frauds, security portfolio risk, risk of q...
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Static Analysis, SAS 2013, held in Seattle, WA, USA, in June 2013. The 23 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were selected from 56 submissions. The papers address all aspects of static analysis, including abstract domains, abstract interpretation, abstract testing, bug detection, data flow analysis, model checking, new applications, program transformation, program verificatio...
The Beauty of Functional Code (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #8106)
This Festschrift has been published in honor of Rinus Plasmeijer, to celebrate the combined occasion of his 61st birthday and the 25th Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages, IFL 2013, held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, in August 2013. Rinus Plasmeijer was the main designer of the lazy functional programming language "Clean" and has always been the leader of the associated research team. He has played a decisive role in making the Radboud University of Nijmegen an im...
Automated Deduction in Geometry (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, #7993) (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #7993)
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Automated Deduction in Geometry, ADG 2012, held in Edinburgh, UK, in September 2012. The 10 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement from the lectures given at the workshop. The conference represents a forum to exchange ideas and views, to present research results and progress, and to demonstrate so...
The present text resulted from lectures given by the authors at the Rijks Universiteit at Utrecht. These lectures were part of a series on 'History of Contemporary Mathematics'. The need for such an enterprise was generally felt, since the curriculum at many universities is designed to suit an efficient treatment of advanced subjects rather than to reflect the development of notions and techniques. As it is very likely that this trend will continue, we decided to offer lectures of a less technic...
Programming Logics (Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, #7797)
This Festschrift volume, published in memory of Harald Ganzinger, contains 17 papers from colleagues all over the world and covers all the fields to which Harald Ganzinger dedicated his work during his academic career. The volume begins with a complete account of Harald Ganzinger's work and then turns its focus to the research of his former colleagues, students, and friends who pay tribute to him through their writing. Their individual papers span a broad range of topics, including programming...
Logic, Language, and Computation (Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues, #7758)
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation, TbiLLC 2011, held in Kutaisi, Georgia, in September 2011. The book consists of summaries of 3 tutorials presented at the symposium together with 13 full papers that were carefully reviewed and selected from the submissions. The papers are organized in two sections, one on Language and one on Logic and Computation. The range of topics covered in the Language section incl...
The Satisfiability Problem and Boolean Functions (Topics in Discrete Mathematics, v. 10)
by Franco
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Meeting on Algebraic and Algorithmic Aspects of Differential and Integral Operators, AADIOS 2012, held at the Applications of Computer Algebra Conference in Sofia, Bulgaria, on June 25-28, 2012. The total of 9 papers presented in this volume consists of 2 invited papers and 7 regular papers which were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. The topics of interest are: symbolic computation for operator algebras, factoriza...
The LNCS journal Transactions on Rough Sets is devoted to the entire spectrum of rough sets related issues, from logical and mathematical foundations, through all aspects of rough set theory and its applications, such as data mining, knowledge discovery and intelligent information processing, to relations between rough sets and other approaches to uncertainty, vagueness, and incompleteness, such as fuzzy sets and theory of evidence. Volume XVII is a continuation of a number of research streams w...
Are you up to the challenge of 200 new Su Doku puzzles, arranged in easy, medium and difficult categories? Keep your mind sharp and test your powers of deductive reasoning. Ideal for whiling away those long commutes, travelling on holiday or relaxing at home.
In the last few decades, advances in molecular biology and in the research - frastructure in this ?eld has given rise to the "omics" revolution in molecular biology,alongwiththeexplosionofdatabases:fromgenomicstotranscriptomics, proteomics, interactomics,and metabolomics. However,the huge amount of b- logicalinformationavailablehasleftabottleneckindataprocessing:information over?ow has called for innovative techniques for their visualization, modelling, interpretationandanalysis.The manyresultsf...
Introduction to Mathematical Logic (Dover Books on Mathematics)
by Hodel
Mathematical Problems from Applied Logic I (International Mathematical, #4)
This is an overview of the current state of knowledge along with open problems and perspectives, clarified in such fields as non-standard inferences in description logics, logic of provability, logical dynamics and computability theory. The book includes contributions concerning the role of logic today, including unexpected aspects of contemporary logic and the application of logic. This book will be of interest to logicians and mathematicians in general.