Conditionals somehow express conditional beliefs. However, conditional belief is a bi-propositional attitude that is generally not truth-evaluable, in contrast to unconditional belief. Therefore, this article opts for an expressivistic semantics for conditionals, grounds this semantics in the arguably most adequate account of conditional belief, that is, ranking theory, and dismisses probabilit...

We present a new and simple mechanism for repeated public good environments. In the Conditional Contribution Mechanism (CCM), agents send two messages of form, “I am willing to contribute x units if in total y are contributed.” This offers risk-free strategies, which we call unexploitable. Our main theorem states that all outcomes CCM will eventually be Pareto efficient choose unexploitable bet...

Abstract: In this paper, we obtain certain expressions and recurrence relations for two general classes of distributions based on some conditional expectations of k-th lower record values. We consider the necessary and sufficient conditions such that these conditional expectations hold for some distribution functions. Furthermore, an expression of conditional expectation of other general class ...

Dempster-Shafer (DS) belief theory is a powerful general framework for dealing with a wider variety of uncertainties in data. As in Bayesian probability theory, the conditional operation plays a critical role in DS theoretic strategies for evidence updating and fusion. A major limitation associated with the application of DS theoretic techniques for reasoning under uncertainty is the absence of...

Dynamic domains are domains quickly created, used and discarded. Today, there are no facilities available to support dynamic domains in most network management systems. This paper introduces two new language to deal with dynamic domains. The first language is used to define new domains through the selection of managed objects. The second language, on its turn, is used to visualize already creat...