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Presumption of Patent Validity and Litigation Incentives

open access: yesJournal of Public Economic Theory, Volume 28, Issue 3, June 2026.
ABSTRACT We analyze the effects of the presumption of patent validity on litigation incentives and outcomes. We develop a litigation game between a patent holder and an alleged infringing firm. A court resolves the dispute if there is a trial. We model the court's decision‐making as a learning process based on evidence and consider the presumption as a
Alice Guerra, Tapas Kundu
wiley   +1 more source

Can we repudiate ontology altogether?

open access: yesNoûs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 264-292, June 2026.
Abstract Ontological nihilists repudiate ontology altogether, maintaining that ontological structure is an unnecessary addition to our theorizing. Recent defenses of the view involve a sophisticated combination of highly expressive but ontologically innocent languages combined with a metaphysics of features—non‐objectual, complete but modifiable states
Christopher J. Masterman
wiley   +1 more source

A Collapse Result in the Mereology of Properties

open access: yesRatio, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 57-65, June 2026.
ABSTRACT I examine five principles about the metaphysics of properties, each of which has been defended in the literature: (1) the sum of properties is their corresponding conjunctive property, (2) the mereology of properties is classical, (3) properties are individuated by necessary co‐instantiation, (4) sums of objects belonging to different ...
Alejandro G. Di Rienzo
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing Artificial Neural Network Performance for Wildfire Susceptibility Mapping Using Bernstein‐Levy and Multi‐Population Differential Evolution Algorithms

open access: yesTransactions in GIS, Volume 30, Issue 4, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Wildfire susceptibility mapping (WSM) is critical for forest management, land‐use planning, and disaster risk mitigation. Although hybrid artificial neural network (ANN) models optimized by metaheuristic algorithms are increasingly used in susceptibility mapping, they are often evaluated without strong machine learning benchmarks, spatially ...
Talha Taşkanat
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating Bio-Inspired Metaheuristics for Dynamic Surgical Scheduling: A Resilient Three-Stage Flow Shop Model Under Stochastic Emergency Arrivals. [PDF]

open access: yesBiomimetics (Basel)
Becerra-Rozas M   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Kripke's Reduction of Löb's Theorem to the Second Incompleteness Theorem

open access: yesTheoria, Volume 92, Issue 3, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we discuss Kripke's reduction of Löb's Principle to the Second Incompleteness Theorem. We have a closer look at the non‐constructive character of the reduction. We reflect on what the argument has to tell us. In the Appendix, We give a strengthening of Löb's Principle suggested by Kripke's reduction.
Albert Visser
wiley   +1 more source

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