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We establish a formal correspondence between resource calculi an appropriate linear multicategories. We consider the cases of (symmetric) representable, symmetric closed and autonomous multicategories. For all these structures, we prove…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Federico Olimpieri

Intersection types are an essential tool in the analysis of operational and denotational properties of lambda-terms and functional programs. Among them, non-idempotent intersection types provide precise quantitative information about the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Thomas Ehrhard

We present a straightforward embedding of quantified multimodal logic in simple type theory and prove its soundness and completeness. Modal operators are replaced by quantification over a type of possible worlds. We present simple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-05-18 Christoph Benzmueller , Lawrence C. Paulson

Effect handlers are a powerful abstraction for defining, customising, and composing computational effects. Statically ensuring that all effect operations are handled requires some form of effect system, but using a traditional effect system…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Wenhao Tang , Leo White , Stephen Dolan , Daniel Hillerström , Sam Lindley , Anton Lorenzen

In this paper we investigate the complexity-theoretical aspects of cyclic and non-wellfounded proofs in the context of parsimonious logic, a variant of linear logic where the exponential modality ! is interpreted as a constructor for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Matteo Acclavio , Gianluca Curzi , Giulio Guerrieri

Modular reasoning about class invariants is challenging in the presence of dependencies among collaborating objects that need to maintain global consistency. This paper presents semantic collaboration: a novel methodology to specify and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-05-08 Nadia Polikarpova , Julian Tschannen , Carlo A. Furia , Bertrand Meyer

Multimodal learning leverages the integration of diverse data modalities to enhance performance in complex tasks. Yet, it frequently encounters incomplete or redundant modality data in real-world scenarios. This paper presents a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Richeng Zhou , Xuelin Zhang , Liyuan Liu

Information flow between components of a system takes many forms and is key to understanding the organization and functioning of large-scale, complex systems. We demonstrate three modalities of information flow from time series X to time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-22 Ryan G. James , Blanca Daniella Mansante Ayala , Bahti Zakirov , James P. Crutchfield

Interest in combinatorial interpretations of mathematical entities stems from the convenience of the concrete models they provide. Finding a bijective proof of a seemingly obscure identity can reveal unsuspected significance to it. Finding…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jeffrey Morton

We propose the integration of staged metaprogramming into a session-typed message passing functional language. We build on a model of contextual modal type theory with multi-level contexts, where contextual values, closing arbitrary terms…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Pedro Ângelo , Atsushi Igarashi , Yuito Murase , Vasco T. Vasconcelos

Understanding student difficulties in programming is a complex challenge due to the wide range of topics and the abundant varieties of misconceptions and errors. This paper presents the design and development of a fine-grained taxonomy that…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Dimitri Eckert , Christian Kautz

In the past decades, many different programming models for managing concurrency in applications have been proposed, such as the actor model, Communicating Sequential Processes, and Software Transactional Memory. The ubiquity of multi-core…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-06-16 Janwillem Swalens , Stefan Marr , Joeri De Koster , Tom Van Cutsem

Integrating diverse formalisms into modular knowledge representation systems offers increased expressivity, modeling convenience and computational benefits. We introduce concepts of abstract modules and abstract modular systems to study…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Yuliya Lierler , Miroslaw Truszczynski

Graded type systems, such as the one underlying the Granule programming language, allow various different properties of a program's behaviour to be tracked via annotating types with additional information, which we call grades. One example…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Danielle Marshall , Dominic Orchard

After introducing some motivations for this survey, we describe a formalism to parametrize a wide class of algebraic structures occurring naturally in various problems of topology, geometry and mathematical physics. This allows us to define…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2016-12-16 Sinan Yalin

Automatic or assisted workflow composition is a field of intense research for applications to the world wide web or to business process modeling. Workflow composition is traditionally addressed in various ways, generally via theorem proving…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Patrick Albert , Laurent Henocque , Mathias Kleiner

When we work with information from multiple sources, the formalism each employs to handle uncertainty may not be uniform. In order to be able to combine these knowledge bases of different formats, we need to first establish a common basis…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-18 Choh Man Teng

Guarded recursion is a powerful modal approach to recursion that can be seen as an abstract form of step-indexing. It is currently used extensively in separation logic to model programming languages with advanced features by solving domain…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Magnus Baunsgaard Kristensen , Rasmus Ejlers Møgelberg , Andrea Vezzosi

Among the various forms of reasoning studied in the context of artificial intelligence, qualitative reasoning makes it possible to infer new knowledge in the context of imprecise, incomplete information without numerical values. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Quentin Cohen-Solal , Alexandre Niveau , Maroua Bouzid

We describe a Martin-L\"of style dependent type theory, called Cocon, that allows us to mix the intensional function space that is used to represent higher-order abstract syntax (HOAS) trees with the extensional function space that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Brigitte Pientka , Andreas Abel , Francisco Ferreira , David Thibodeau , Rebecca Zucchini