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"Natural languages are programming languages for minds." Can we or should we take this slogan seriously? If so, how? Can answers be found by looking at the various "dynamic" treatments of natural language developed over the last decade or…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 David Israel

Many people enjoy classical symphonic music. Its diverse instrumentation makes for a rich listening experience. This diversity adds to the conductor's expressive freedom to shape the sound according to their imagination. As a result, the…

We introduce a framework that represents a dynamic program as a family of operators acting on a partially ordered set. We provide an optimality theory based only on order-theoretic assumptions and show how applications across almost all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Thomas J. Sargent , John Stachurski

The main goal of this paper is to give a rigorous mathematical description of systems for processing quantum information. To do it authors consider abstract state machines as models of classical computational systems. This class of machines…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-06-12 Mizal Alobaidi , Andriy Batyiv , Grygoriy Zholtkevych

To the reduct problems of decision system, the paper proposes the notion of dynamic core according to the dynamic reduct model. It describes various formal definitions of dynamic core, and discusses some properties about dynamic core. All…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jiayang Wang

One goal of Artificial Intelligence is to learn meaningful representations for natural language expressions, but what this entails is not always clear. A variety of new linguistic behaviours present themselves embodied as computers,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Davide Nunes , Luis Antunes

The increasing interest in understanding the behavior of the biological neural networks, and the increasing utilization of artificial neural networks in different fields and scales, both require a thorough understanding of how neuromorphic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-12 János Végh , Ádám J. Berki

Classical models of computation have been successful in capturing the very essence of individual computing devices. Although they are useful to understand computability power and limitations in the small, such models are not suitable to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Damian Arellanes

The human brain has many remarkable information processing characteristics that deeply puzzle scientists and engineers. Among the most important and the most intriguing of these characteristics are the brain's broad universality as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Victor Eliashberg

Arithmetic dynamics is the study of number theoretic properties of dynamical systems. A relatively new field, it draws inspiration partly from dynamical analogues of theorems and conjectures in classical arithmetic geometry, and partly from…

A complex system is a system composed of many interacting parts, often called agents, which displays collective behavior that does not follow trivially from the behaviors of the individual parts. Examples include condensed matter systems,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-08 M. E. J. Newman

Organic Computing is an initiative in the field of systems engineering that proposed to make use of concepts such as self-adaptation and self-organisation to increase the robustness of technical systems. Based on the observation that…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Sven Tomforde , Bernhard Sick , Christian Müller-Schloer

A plausible definition of "reasoning" could be "algebraically manipulating previously acquired knowledge in order to answer a new question". This definition covers first-order logical inference or probabilistic inference. It also includes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-02-14 Leon Bottou

Networked dynamical systems are common throughout science in engineering; e.g., biological networks, reaction networks, power systems, and the like. For many such systems, nonlinearity drives populations of identical (or near-identical)…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-02-10 James Koch , Zhao Chen , Aaron Tuor , Jan Drgona , Draguna Vrabie

We argue that computation is an abstract algebraic concept, and a computer is a result of a morphism (a structure preserving map) from a finite universal semigroup.

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Attila Egri-Nagy

Studies of strongly nonlinear dynamical systems such as turbulent flows call for superior computational prowess. With the advent of quantum computing, a plethora of quantum algorithms have demonstrated, both theoretically and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Sachin S. Bharadwaj , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

System and synthetic biology are rapidly evolving systems, but both lack tools such as those used in engineering environments to shift the their focus from the design of parts (details) to the design of systems (behaviors); to aggravate,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-07-29 Ricardo Henrique Gracini Guiraldelli , Vincenzo Manca

Systems are growing into more complex ones for developing and maintaining. Existing systems which do not have much in common on the first look are connected, due to the technical progress, even if it was never intended that way. It is an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Tobias Eckl

In our understanding, a mind-map is an adaptive engine that basically works incrementally on the fundament of existing transactional streams. Generally, mind-maps consist of symbolic cells that are connected with each other and that become…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-02-19 Claudine Brucks , Michael Hilker , Christoph Schommer , Cynthia Wagner , Ralph Weires

To address Quantum Artificial Neural Networks as quantum dynamical computing systems, a formalization of quantum artificial neural networks as dynamical systems is developed, expanding the concept of unitary map to the neural computation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Carlos Pedro Gonçalves