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Causes and Explanations: A Structural-Model Approach, Part I: Causes
Joseph Y. Halpern, Judea Pearl
We propose a new definition of actual cause, using structural equations to model counterfactuals. We show that the definition yields a plausible and elegant account of causation th…
A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Resource Allocation in Wireless Multimedia Networks
Zygmunt Haas, Joseph Y. Halpern, Li Li +1
The allocation of scarce spectral resources to support as many user applications as possible while maintaining reasonable quality of service is a fundamental problem in wireless co…
Knowledge and common knowledge in a distributed environment
Joseph Y. Halpern, Yoram Moses
Reasoning about knowledge seems to play a fundamental role in distributed systems. Indeed, such reasoning is a central part of the informal intuitive arguments used in the design o…
Performing work efficiently in the presence of faults
Cynthia Dwork, Joseph Y. Halpern, O. Waarts
We consider a system of t synchronous processes that communicate only by sending messages to one another, and that together must perform independent units of work. Processes ma…
Axiomatizing Causal Reasoning
Joseph Y. Halpern
Causal models defined in terms of a collection of equations, as defined by Pearl, are axiomatized here. Axiomatizations are provided for three successively more general classes of…
A response to the commentaries on CoRR
Joseph Y. Halpern
This is a response to the commentaries on "CoRR: A Computing Research Repository".