{"title":"Three Early Formal Approaches to the Verification of Concurrent Programs","authors":"Cliff B. Jones","doi":"10.1007/s11023-023-09621-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-023-09621-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51133,"journal":{"name":"Minds and Machines","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44931704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jakob Mökander, Margi Sheth, David Watson, Luciano Floridi
{"title":"The Switch, the Ladder, and the Matrix: Models for Classifying AI Systems","authors":"Jakob Mökander, Margi Sheth, David Watson, Luciano Floridi","doi":"10.1007/s11023-023-09626-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-023-09626-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51133,"journal":{"name":"Minds and Machines","volume":"33 1","pages":"221-248"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42765507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jakob Mökander, Margi Sheth, David Watson, Luciano Floridi
{"title":"Correction to: The Switch, the Ladder, and the Matrix: Models for Classifying AI Systems","authors":"Jakob Mökander, Margi Sheth, David Watson, Luciano Floridi","doi":"10.1007/s11023-022-09620-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-022-09620-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51133,"journal":{"name":"Minds and Machines","volume":"33 1","pages":"249"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43183189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minds and MachinesPub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2023-04-17DOI: 10.1007/s11023-023-09631-3
Giorgio Cignarale, Ulrich Schmid, Tuomas Tahko, Roman Kuznets
{"title":"The Role of A Priori Belief in the Design and Analysis of Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems.","authors":"Giorgio Cignarale, Ulrich Schmid, Tuomas Tahko, Roman Kuznets","doi":"10.1007/s11023-023-09631-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11023-023-09631-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The debate around the notions of a priori knowledge and a posteriori knowledge has proven crucial for the development of many fields in philosophy, such as metaphysics, epistemology, metametaphysics etc. We advocate that the recent debate on the two notions is also fruitful for man-made distributed computing systems and for the epistemic analysis thereof. Following a recently proposed modal and fallibilistic account of a priori knowledge, we elaborate the corresponding concept of a priori belief: We propose a rich taxonomy of types of a priori beliefs and their role for the different agents that participate in the system engineering process, which match the existing view exceedingly well and are particularly promising for explaining and dealing with unexpected behaviors in fault-tolerant distributed systems. Developing such a philosophical foundation will provide a sound basis for eventually implementing our ideas in a suitable epistemic reasoning and analysis framework and, hence, constitutes a mandatory first step for developing methods and tools to cope with the various challenges that emerge in such systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":51133,"journal":{"name":"Minds and Machines","volume":"33 2","pages":"293-319"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10345063/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10183556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minds and MachinesPub Date : 2023-01-01Epub Date: 2022-12-29DOI: 10.1007/s11023-022-09619-5
Benjamin Eva, Katja Ried, Thomas Müller, Hans J Briegel
{"title":"How a Minimal Learning Agent can Infer the Existence of Unobserved Variables in a Complex Environment.","authors":"Benjamin Eva, Katja Ried, Thomas Müller, Hans J Briegel","doi":"10.1007/s11023-022-09619-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11023-022-09619-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>According to a mainstream position in contemporary cognitive science and philosophy, the use of abstract compositional concepts is amongst the most characteristic indicators of meaningful deliberative thought in an organism or agent. In this article, we show how the ability to develop and utilise abstract conceptual structures can be achieved by a particular kind of learning agent. More specifically, we provide and motivate a concrete operational definition of what it means for these agents to be in possession of abstract concepts, before presenting an explicit example of a minimal architecture that supports this capability. We then proceed to demonstrate how the existence of abstract conceptual structures can be operationally useful in the process of employing previously acquired knowledge in the face of new experiences, thereby vindicating the natural conjecture that the cognitive functions of abstraction and generalisation are closely related.</p>","PeriodicalId":51133,"journal":{"name":"Minds and Machines","volume":"33 1","pages":"185-219"},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10082113/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9290096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Model Solution: On the Compatibility of Predictive Processing and Embodied Cognition","authors":"L. Kersten","doi":"10.1007/s11023-022-09617-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-022-09617-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51133,"journal":{"name":"Minds and Machines","volume":"33 1","pages":"113-134"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47188924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Turing Test is a Thought Experiment","authors":"Bernardo Gonçalves","doi":"10.1007/s11023-022-09616-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-022-09616-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51133,"journal":{"name":"Minds and Machines","volume":"33 1","pages":"1-31"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46226625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Advantages of Distinguishing Between Predictive and Allocative Fairness in Algorithmic Decision-Making","authors":"Fabian Beigang","doi":"10.1007/s11023-022-09615-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-022-09615-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51133,"journal":{"name":"Minds and Machines","volume":"32 1","pages":"655 - 682"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47666514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}