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Occam's razor
Known as:
Occum's razor
, Okkum's razor
, Occam’s Razor
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Occam's razor (also written as Ockham's razor, and lex parsimoniae in Latin, which means law of parsimony) is a problem-solving principle attributed…
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2012
2012
Robot Self-Awareness: Occam's Razor for Fluents
A. Gorbenko
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V. Popov
2012
Corpus ID: 55537153
In this paper we consider robot self-awareness from the point of view of temporal relation based data mining. In particular, we…
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2003
2003
Is Hrabeiella periglandulata (Annelida, "Polychaeta") the sister group of Clitellata? Evidence from an ultrastructural analysis of the dorsal pharynx in H. periglandulata and Enchytraeus minutus…
G. Purschke
Zoomorphology
2003
Corpus ID: 20328781
The terrestrial polychaete species Hrabeiella periglandulata has many characters in common with Clitellata and with…
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2002
2002
Time series prediction using support vector machines, the orthogonal and the regularized orthogonal least-squares algorithms
Kian L. Lee
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S. Billings
International Journal of Systems Science
2002
Corpus ID: 26025054
Generalization properties of support vector machines, orthogonal least squares and zero-order regularized orthogonal least…
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2001
2001
A multiplicative multifractal model for TCP traffic
J. L. Véhel
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B. Sikdar
Proceedings. Sixth IEEE Symposium on Computers…
2001
Corpus ID: 1619618
previous studies have shown that TCP traffic displays strong multifractal scaling. However a physical explanation of why such a…
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1999
1999
NetWeaver for EMDS user guide (version 1.1): a knowledge base development system.
K. Reynolds
1999
Corpus ID: 202765622
Reynolds, Keith M. 1999. NetWeaver for EMDS user guide (version 1.1): a knowledge base development system. Gen. The guide…
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1998
1998
Optimized simulation as an aid to modelling, with an application to the study of a population of tsetse flies, Glossina morsitans morsitans (Diptera: Glossinidae)
J. Hargrove
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B. Williams
1998
Corpus ID: 56273618
A method is described for optimizing models by linking simulation procedures with a non-linear regression programme. It is then…
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1988
1988
Infection of grapevines by soilborne Agrobacterium tumefaciens biovar 3 and population dynamics in host and nonhost rhizospheres
A. L. Bishop
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B. H. Katz
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T. Burr
1988
Corpus ID: 83691542
Bishop, A. L., Katz, B. H., and Burr, T. J. 1988. Infection of grapevines by soilborne Agrobacterium tumefaciens biovar 3 and…
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1988
1988
On the use of autoregressive order determination criteria in univariate white noise tests
T. Pukkila
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P. R. Krishnaiah
IEEE Transactions on Acoustics Speech and Signal…
1988
Corpus ID: 36555977
Testing the hypothesis of multivariate white noise is seen as the selection of the order of a multivariate autoregressive model…
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1986
1986
Fine-scale distribution of nearshore, suprabenthic fish larvae
A. Jahn
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R. Lavenberg
1986
Corpus ID: 56246182
A large-volume pump was used to sample larval fish and zooplankton at approximate heights of 30, 60, and 100 cm above the bottom…
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1979
1979
A Counterpart of Occam’s Razor
K. Menger
1979
Corpus ID: 59801656
This chapter combines two papers on a counterpart of the famous methodological tool developed by Occam in the 14th century: [1960…
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