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Theory and Algorithms of Robust Chance Constraints
2023With limited knowledge or data, Robust Chance Constraints (RCCs), also known as Distributionally Robust Chance Constraints in the literature, provide a natural and interpretable way to obtain probabilistic safety guarantees for a variety of complex uncertain systems, examples of which include but not limited to power grids, transportation systems ...
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Even-chance lotteries in social choice theory
Theory and Decision, 1972This paper discusses aspects of the theory of social choice when a nonempty choice set is to be determined for each situation, which consists of a feasible set of alternatives and a preference order for each voter on the set of nonempty subsets of alternatives.
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Three Proposals Regarding a Theory of Chance
Philosophical Perspectives, 2005I argue that the theory of chance proposed by David Lewis has three problems: (i) it is time asymmetric in a manner incompatible with some of the chance theories of physics, (ii) it is incompatible with statistical mechanical chances, and (iii) the content of Lewis's Principal Principle depends on how admissibility is cashed out, but there is no ...
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Chance, explanation, and causation in evolutionary theory.
History and philosophy of the life sciences, 2005Chance comes into plays at many levels of the explanation of the evolutionary process; but the unity of sense of this category is problematic. The purpose of this talk is to clarify the meaning of chance at various levels in evolutionary theory: mutations, genetic drift, genetic revolutions, ecosystems, macroevolution. Three main concepts of chance are
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Chance in Darwinian Evolutionary Theory and British Romanticism
Literature Compass, 2016Abstract The following article investigates the unique epistemic changes in conceptions and representations of chance and causality that begin with the poetry and thought of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (and first‐generation British Romanticism) and that are elaborated and expressed ultimately in
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Figures of Chance II. Chance in Theory and Practice
Chance in Theory and Practice proposes a multidisciplinary analysis that will serve as a reference work on cultural phenomena related to the evolution of representations of chance and contingency. It aims to measure what the projective and predictive capacity of societies owes, from the beginnings of the modern age, to their representation and/or ...Duprat, Anne +2 more
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Hybrid uncertainty quantification of dependent competing failure process with chance theory
Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2023Rui Kang, Ying Chen, Yanfang Wang
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Cultural Theory: The Music of Chance
Circa, 1998Katalin Timár, Ian Joyce, Oona Hyland
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