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AAAI
1997
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Query Optimization Using Local Completeness
We consider the problem of query plan optimization in information brokers. Information brokers are programs that facilitate access to collections of information sources by hiding ...
Oliver M. Duschka
AAAI
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Model Minimization in Markov Decision Processes
Many stochastic planning problems can be represented using Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). A difficulty with using these MDP representations is that the common algorithms for so...
Thomas Dean, Robert Givan
AAAI
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Experiments in UNIX Command Prediction
Brian D. Davison, Haym Hirsh
AAAI
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Symbolic Nearest Mean Classifiers
The minimum-distance classifier summarizes each class with a prototype and then uses a nearest neighbor approach for classification. Three drawbacks of the original minimum-distan...
Piew Datta, Dennis F. Kibler
AAAI
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Building Brains for Rooms: Designing Distributed Software Agents
This paper argues that complex, embedded software agent systems are best constructed with parallel, layered architectures. These systems resemble Minskian Societies of Mind and Br...
Michael H. Coen
AAAI
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Building Concept Representations from Reusable Components
Our goal is to build knowledge-based systems capable of answering a wide variety of questions, including questions that are unanticipated when the knowledge base is built. For sys...
Peter Clark, Bruce W. Porter
AAAI
1997
13 years 6 months ago
Model Decomposition and Simulation: A Component Based Qualitative Simulation Algorithm
Traditionally, qualitative simulation uses a global, state-based representation to describe the behavior of the modeled system. For larger, more complex systems this representatio...
Daniel J. Clancy, Benjamin Kuipers