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A Stochastic Broadcast Pi-Calculus [PDF]
, 2011 In this paper we propose a stochastic broadcast PI-calculus which can be used to model server-client based systems where synchronization is always governed by only one participant. Therefore, there is no need to determine the joint synchronization rates.
A. Aldini +25 more
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Immersive Stories: From Technological Determinism Towards Narrative Determinism
Media and CommunicationFollowing the wave of immersive production that occurred between 2015 and 2018, and in the face of new virtual, augmented, and mixed-reality devices, this article discusses the need to move from a technology- or device-focused perspective in the analysis
Jorge Vázquez-Herrero
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Resolving Non-Determinism in Choreographies [PDF]
, 2014 Resolving non-deterministic choices of choreographies is a crucial task. We introduce a novel notion of realisability for choreographies –called whole-spectrum implementation– that rules out deterministic implementations of roles that, no matter which ...
G. Castagna +11 more
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About Freedom, Determinism and Technodeterminism [PDF]
In Medias Res, 2012 What is ‘technological determinism’? Was Marshall McLuhan a ‘technological determinist’? The text compares different meanings of the term ‘determinism’.
Sead Alić
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Contingency, Free Will, and Particular Providence
Religions, 2021 The results from contemporary science, especially the theory of evolution and quantum physics, seem to favor process theology. Moreover, the evil committed by free will leads some theologians to reduce divine action in order to prevent God from being ...
David Torrijos-Castrillejo
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Horn Clauses as an Intermediate Representation for Program Analysis and Transformation [PDF]
, 2015 Many recent analyses for conventional imperative programs begin by transforming programs into logic programs, capitalising on existing LP analyses and simple LP semantics.
Gange, Graeme +4 more
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Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, 2017 The problem with reductionism in biology is not the reduction, but the implicit attitude of determinism that usually accompanies it. Methodological reductionism is supported by deterministic beliefs, but making such a connection is problematic when it is
Leonore Fleming
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Deterministic Quantum Mechanics: The Mathematical Equations
Frontiers in Physics, 2020 Without wasting time and effort on philosophical justifications and implications, we write down the conditions for the Hamiltonian of a quantum system for rendering it mathematically equivalent to a deterministic system.
Gerard 't Hooft
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Forget the Folk: Moral Responsibility Preservation Motives and Other Conditions for Compatibilism
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 For years, experimental philosophers have attempted to discern whether laypeople find free will compatible with a scientifically deterministic understanding of the universe, yet no consensus has emerged.
Cory J. Clark +3 more
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An Investigation into Sadra and Suhravardi’s Views regarding the World of Ideas [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2018 The way God intervenes in the natural world is considered a major and long-standing issue in the realm of theology and philosophy of religion where efforts to resolve it has led to proposing various and, at times, opposing views, spanning from ...
Mahbobeh Vahdatipoor +2 more
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