In particular, we give a precise picture of the complexity of deciding explanations, α-partial explanations, and partial explanations, and of computing the explanatory power of partial explanations.
We also analyze the complexity of deciding explanations and partial explanations in the case of succinctly represented context sets, the complexity of deciding explanations in the general case of situations, and the complexity of deciding subsumption and equivalence between causal models.
This result provides a complexity-theoretic explanation of sharp discrepancies that have been observed in the social choice theory literature when comparing Dodgson elections with simpler voting rules.
To our knowledge, no complexity results for explanations in the structural-model approach have been derived so far.
Preliminary results of our studies to assess the impacts of an Avida-ED curriculum indicate a positive effect on student learning of evolutionary concepts, particularly in increasing the level of complexity of student explanations about the random nature of mutation.
Although SIDE and its machine-learning algorithms were shown to be highly effective at scoring the accuracy and complexity of undergraduates' explanations of evolutionary change, our studies revealed several limitations, which are summarized in Table 4.
He has taught at a number of academic institutions in the US and Europe, run ten international conferences on the topics of explanation, complexity, management, health care, entanglement and ethics and founded a successful academic journal (E CO).
Computational complexity advances an explanation to this apparent paradox: (1) only a small portion of instances of such problems are actually hard, and (2) successful heuristics exploit structural properties of the typical instance to selectively improve parts that are likely to be sub-optimal.
Some of these initiatives have a degree of complexity which required explanation in addition to the traffic light grading.
In this view, scientists who have sized up the world's complexity and extracted lucid explanations are a bit like the engineers of ancient Greece or Rome who studied piles of stones and formulated basic building principles.
