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AAAI
2000
13 years 6 months ago
An Interval Algebra for Indeterminate Time
Temporal indeterminacy is an inherent problem which arises when capturing and manipulating temporal data in many application areas. As such, representation and manipulation of tim...
Wes Cowley, Dimitris Plexousakis
AAAI
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Anchoring Symbols to Sensor Data: Preliminary Report
Anchoring is the process of creating and maintaining the correspondence between symbols and percepts that refer to the same physical objects. Although this process must necessaril...
Silvia Coradeschi, Alessandro Saffiotti
AAAI
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Invention of Integer Sequences
Simon Colton, Alan Bundy, Toby Walsh
AAAI
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Non-Deterministic Social Laws
The paper generalizes the notion of a social law, the foundation of the theory of artificial social systems developed for coordinating Multi-Agent Systems. In an artificial social...
Michael H. Coen
AAAI
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Exploiting a Thesaurus-Based Semantic Net for Knowledge-Based Search
With the growth of on-line information, the need for better resource location services is growing rapidly. A popular goal is to conduct search in terms of concepts, rather than wo...
Peter Clark, John Thompson, Heather Holmback, Lisb...
AAAI
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Nurse Rostering at the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong
This paper describes the Rostering Engine (RE) that we have developed for the Hospital Authority (HA), Hong Kong as part of their Staff Rostering System (SRS) using AI constraint-...
Andy Hon Wai Chun, Steve Ho Chuen Chan, Garbbie Pu...
AAAI
2000
13 years 6 months ago
A Self-Organizing Neural Network for Contour Integration through Synchronized Firing
Contour integration in low-level vision is believed to occur based on lateral interaction between neurons with similar orientation tuning. The exact neural mechanisms underlying s...
Yoonsuck Choe, Risto Miikkulainen
AAAI
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Using Prior Knowledge: Problems and Solutions
Encoding knowledge is time consuming and expensive. A possible solution to reduce the cost of developing a new knowledge base (KB) is to reuse existing knowledge. Previous work ad...
Vinay K. Chaudhri, Mark E. Stickel, Jér&oci...
AAAI
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Making Rational Decisions Using Adaptive Utility Elicitation
Rational decision making requires full knowledge of the utility function of the person affected by the decisions. However, in many cases, the task of acquiring such knowledge is n...
Urszula Chajewska, Daphne Koller, Ronald Parr