A theory of abstraction

F Giunchiglia, T Walsh - Artificial intelligence, 1992 - Elsevier
… on, we will write "abstraction" to mean this intuitive idea of abstraction, and to distinguish …
and informal notions of abstraction used elsewhere in this paper. The abstractions described in …

Abstraction and concepts: when, how, where, what and why?

E Yee - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
… In this article, we use the term abstraction to refer to the process that, … Via this process of
abstraction we aggregate across … It is through this kind of abstraction that we are able to discern …

[HTML][HTML] On the necessity of abstraction

G Konidaris - Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
… helps structure our reasoning about abstraction. Reinforcement learning problems … of
abstraction: state abstraction, where an agent builds an abstract state set S , and action abstraction, …

[BOOK][B] The limits of abstraction

K Fine - 2002 - books.google.com
What is abstraction? To what extent can it account for the … of abstraction to be acceptable,
and these acceptable principles are exactly characterized. A formal theory of abstraction is …

Abstraction mechanisms in CLU

B Liskov, A Snyder, R Atkinson… - Communications of the …, 1977 - dl.acm.org
CLU is a new programming language designed to support the use of abstractions in … that
three kinds of abstractions—procedural, control, and especially data abstractions—are useful in …

The value of abstraction

MK Ho, D Abel, TL Griffiths, ML Littman - Current opinion in behavioral …, 2019 - Elsevier
abstractions, in which an abstraction scheme is tailored to take advantage of particular
features of a planning algorithm, and end-to-end approaches, in which learning abstractions for …

The method of abstraction

L Floridi - The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of …, 2016 - api.taylorfrancis.com
‘In the development of our understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool
available to the human intellect is abstraction.’This citation come from Notes on Data Structuring…

Abstraction and authority

FH Easterbrook - The University of Chicago Law Review, 1992 - JSTOR
Our Constitution creates a government of laws and not of men. The distinction is more than
slogan. It is embedded in structure. Congress must proceed by law, using intelligible …

The culture of abstraction

A Toscano - Theory, Culture & Society, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Focusing especially on Science and the Modern World, this article explores Whitehead's
understanding of the social contexts and repercussions of mathematical and scientific …

On understanding types, data abstraction, and polymorphism

L Cardelli, P Wegner - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 1985 - dl.acm.org
… We christen this language Fun because fun instead of X is the functional abstraction
abstractions (packages) of Ada, indicate the impact on methodology of requiring data abstractions to …