AAAI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
1998
A key assumption of all problem-solving approaches based on utility theory, including heuristic search, is that we can assign a utility or cost to each state. This in turn require...
AAAI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
1998
Wepropose a method called Selection by Performance Prediction (SPP) which allows one, when faced with a particular problem instance, to select a Branch and Boundalgorithm from amo...
AAAI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
1998
Despite much research that has been done on constraint satisfaction problems (CSP's), the framework is sometimes inflexible and the results are not very satisfactory when app...
AAAI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
1998
Effective information gathering on the WWW is a complex task requiring planning, scheduling, text processing, and interpretation-style reasoning about extracted data to resolve in...
AAAI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
1998
The utility problem occurs when the cost of the acquired knowledge outweighs its bene ts. When the learner acquires control knowledge for speeding up a problem solver, the bene t ...
AAAI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
1998
This paper introduces a newwayof accelerating the convergenceof numericCSPfiltering algorithms, through the use of extrapolation methotis. Extrapolation methodsare used in numeric...
AAAI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
1998
AAAI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
1998
We investigate two forms of dependence between variables and/or formulas within a propositional knowledge base: controllability (a set of variables X controls a formula , if there...
AAAI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
1998
TheWorldWideWebcontinues to challenge organizations to makeonline access to their expertise convenient for their clients. Onemeansof expertise access that manyclients find conveni...
AAAI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
1998
The problem of sequence categorization is to generalize from a corpus of labeled sequences procedures for accurately labeling future unlabeled sequences. The choice of representat...