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Inquisitive Logic: Consequence and Inference in the Realm of Questions
This open access book makes a case for extending logic beyond its traditional boundaries, to encompass not only statements but also also questions. The motivations for this extension are examined in detail. It is shown that important notions, including logical answerhood and dependency, emerge as facets of the fundamental notion of entailment once logic is extended to questions, and can therefo…
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- Volume 60
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- 978-3-031-09705-8
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- XX, 272
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Advances in Proof-Theoretic Semantics
This volume is the first ever collection devoted to the field of proof-theoretic semantics. Contributions address topics including the systematics of introduction and elimination rules and proofs of normalization, the categorial characterization of deductions, the relation between Heyting's and Gentzen's approaches to meaning, knowability paradoxes, proof-theoretic foundations of set theory, Du…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-22686-6
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- VI, 283
- Series Title
- Trends in Logic
- Call Number
- 511.3 ADV a
The Everyday Life of an Algorithm
This open access book begins with an algorithm–a set of IF…THEN rules used in the development of a new, ethical, video surveillance architecture for transport hubs. Readers are invited to follow the algorithm over three years, charting its everyday life. Questions of ethics, transparency, accountability and market value must be grasped by the algorithm in a series of ever more demanding for…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030005788
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- IX, 151 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- -
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Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures: 23rd Internationa…
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures, FOSSACS 2020, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, in April 2020, and was held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2020. The 31 regular papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and …
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-45231-5
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- XV, 644
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- -
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Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures: 22nd Internationa…
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures, FOSSACS 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2019, held as part of the European Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019.The 29 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected fro…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030171278
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- XV, 542
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- -
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Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures: 24th Internationa…
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures, FOSSACS 2021, which was held during March 27 until April 1, 2021, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2021. The conference was planned to take place in Luxembourg and changed to an online format du…
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- 1
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- 9783030719951
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- XV, 574
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Automated Reasoning: 11th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2022, Haifa, …
This volume, LNAI 13385, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2022, held in Haifa, Israel, in August 2022. The 32 full research papers and 9 short papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The papers focus on the following topics: Satisfiability, SMT Solv…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031107696
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- XV, 756
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Special Topics in Mathematics for Computer Scientists: Sets, Categories, Top…
This textbook addresses the mathematical description of sets, categories, topologies and measures, as part of the basis for advanced areas in theoretical computer science like semantics, programming languages, probabilistic process algebras, modal and dynamic logics and Markov transition systems. Using motivations, rigorous definitions, proofs and various examples, the author systematically int…
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- -
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- 978-3-319-22750-4
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- -
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- -
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Frontiers of Combining Systems
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems, FroCoS 2015, held in Wroclaw, Poland, in September 2015. The 20 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: description logics; theorem proving and model building; decision procedures; decisio…
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- -
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- 978-3-319-24246-0
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- XVI, 275
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Number Theory
Now in its second edition, this textbook provides an introduction and overview of number theory based on the density and properties of the prime numbers. This unique approach offers both a firm background in the standard material of number theory, as well as an overview of the entire discipline. All of the essential topics are covered, such as the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, theory of co…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-43875-7
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- Mathematics and Statistics
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- -
- Call Number
- 510
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