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This paper proposes probabilistic conformal prediction (PCP), a predictive inference algorithm that estimates a target variable by a discontinuous predictive set. Given inputs, PCP construct the predictive set based on random samples from…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-22 Zhendong Wang , Ruijiang Gao , Mingzhang Yin , Mingyuan Zhou , David M. Blei

In a previous paper, we presented several extensions of ACP with conditional expressions, including one with a retrospection operator on conditions to allow for looking back on conditions under which preceding actions have been performed.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-04-17 J. A. Bergstra , C. A. Middelburg

Many real-world dynamic systems, both natural and artificial, are understood to be performing computations. For artificial dynamic systems, explicitly designed to perform computation - such as digital computers - by construction, we can…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 David H. Wolpert , Jan Korbel

These lectures given to graduate students in theoretical particle physics, provide an introduction to the ``inner workings'' of computer algebra systems. Computer algebra has become an indispensable tool for precision calculations in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Weinzierl

Neural marked temporal point processes have been a valuable addition to the existing toolbox of statistical parametric models for continuous-time event data. These models are useful for sequences where each event is associated with a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yuxin Chang , Alex Boyd , Padhraic Smyth

Declarative approaches to process modeling are regarded as well suited for highly volatile environments as they provide a high degree of flexibility. However, problems in understanding and maintaining declarative business process models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-11-12 Cornelia Haisjackl , Stefan Zugal , Pnina Soffer , Irit Hadar , Manfred Reichert , Jakob Pinggera , Barbara Weber

Stochastic (Markovian) process algebra extend classical process algebra with probabilistic exponentially distributed time durations denoted by rates (the parameter of the exponential distribution). Defining a semantics for such an algebra,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-12-23 Mario Bravetti

An affine model of computation is defined as a subset of iterated immediate-snapshot runs, capturing a wide variety of shared-memory systems, such as wait-freedom, t-resilience, k-concurrency, and fair shared-memory adversaries. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Petr Kuznetsov , Thibault Rieutord

We study several aspects of the behaviours produced by instruction sequences under execution in the setting of the algebraic theory of processes known as ACP. We use ACP to describe the behaviours produced by instruction sequences under…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-12-05 J. A. Bergstra , C. A. Middelburg

Recently, there has been extensive research on the capabilities of biologically plausible algorithms. In this work, we show how one of such algorithms, called predictive coding, is able to perform causal inference tasks. First, we show how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Tommaso Salvatori , Luca Pinchetti , Amine M'Charrak , Beren Millidge , Thomas Lukasiewicz

We develop a full-fledged analysis of an algorithmic decision process that, in a multialternative choice problem, produces computable choice probabilities and expected decision times.

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-05-08 Carlo Baldassi , Fabio Maccheroni , Massimo Marinacci , Marco Pirazzini

This is the first of a series of papers in which we study deep computations (ultracomputations) and deep iterates, formalizing the ideas of "asymptotic limit" of computations and compositional iterates, respectively. In this first paper of…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Samson Alva , Eduardo Dueñez , Jose Iovino , Claire Walton

This paper presents a study on the advancement of computational models for the analysis of illicit activities. Computational models are being adapted to address a number of social problems since the development of computers. Computational…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Sarwat Nizamani , Saad Nizamani , Sehrish Nizamani , Imdad Ali Ismaili

This paper discusses a method for implementing a probabilistic inference system based on an extended relational data model. This model provides a unified approach for a variety of applications such as dynamic programming, solving sparse…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-21 Michael S. K. M. Wong , C. J. Butz , Yang Xiang

A characteristic of existing predictive process monitoring techniques is to first construct a predictive model based on past process executions, and then use it to predict the future of new ongoing cases, without the possibility of updating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Chiara Di Francescomarino , Chiara Ghidini , Fabrizio Maria Maggi , Williams Rizzi , Cosimo Damiano Persia

This paper introduces the Quest Graph, a formal framework for analyzing the capabilities of agentic systems with finite context. We define abstractions that model common reasoning techniques and establish their computational power: the base…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Chatavut Viriyasuthee

In order to find out the limiting speed of solving a specific problem using computer, this essay provides a method based on information entropy. The relationship between the minimum computational complexity and information entropy change is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-03-09 Xue Wu

We present a process algebra aimed at describing interactions that are multiparty, i.e. that may involve more than two processes and that are open, i.e. the number of the processes they involve is not fixed or known a priori. Here we focus…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Chiara Bodei , Linda Brodo , Roberto Bruni

In this article, we consider a simple representation for real numbers and propose top-down procedures to approximate various algebraic and transcendental operations with arbitrary precision. Detailed algorithms and proofs are provided to…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Sarmen Keshishzadeh , Jan Friso Groote

We propose Answer Set Programming (ASP) as an approach for modeling and solving problems from the area of Declarative Process Mining (DPM). We consider here three classical problems, namely, Log Generation, Conformance Checking, and Query…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Francesco Chiariello , Fabrizio Maria Maggi , Fabio Patrizi