Ockham's razor and reasoning about information flow
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What is the minimal algebraic structure to reason about information flow? Do we really need the full power of Boolean algebras with co-closure and de Morgan dual operators? Howmuch canweweaken and still be able to reason about multi-agent scenarios in a tidy compositional way? This paper provides some answers.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Synthese
دوره 167 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009