Assemblage thinking and actor‐network theory: conjunctions, disjunctions, cross‐fertilisations

Gestalt Reasoning with Conjunctions and Disjunctions

Reasoning, solving mathematical equations, or planning written and spoken sentences all must factor in stimuli perceptual properties. Indeed, thinking processes are inspired by and subsequently fitted to concrete objects and situations. It is therefore reasonable to expect that the mental representations evoked when people solve these seemingly abstract tasks should interact with the properties...

The negations of conjunctions, conditionals, and disjunctions.

How do reasoners understand and formulate denials of compound assertions, such as conjunctions and disjunctions? A theory based on mental models postulates that individuals enumerate models of the various possibilities consistent with the assertions. It therefore predicts a novel interaction: in affirmations, conjunctions, A and B, which refer to one possibility, should be easier to understand ...

Resource-Conscious AI Planning with Conjunctions and Disjunctions

Efficient Fully Secure Predicate Encryption for Conjunctions, Disjunctions and k-CNF/DNF formulae

Predicate encryption is an important cryptographic primitive that has found wide applications as it allows for fine-grained key management. In a predicate encryption scheme for a class P of predicates, the owner of the master secret key can derive a secret key SkP for any predicate P ∈ P. Similarly, when encrypting plaintext M , the sender can specify an attribute vector ~x for the ciphertext C...

Optimized Mining of a Concise Representation for Frequent Patterns based on Disjunctions Rather than Conjunctions

Exact condensed representations were introduced in order to offer a small-sized set of elements from which the faithful retrieval of all frequent patterns is possible. In this paper, a new exact concise representation only based on particular elements from the disjunctive search space will be introduced. In this space, a pattern is characterized by its disjunctive support, i.e., the frequency o...