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AAAI
2000
13 years 5 months ago
DMML: An XML Language for Interacting with Multi-Modal Dialog Systems
We present Dialog Moves Markup Language (DMML): an extensible markup language (XML) representation of modality independent communicative acts of automated conversational agents. I...
Nanda Kambhatla, Malgorzata Budzikowska, Sylvie Le...
AAAI
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Cobot in LambdaMOO: A Social Statistics Agent
We describe our development of Cobot, a software agent who lives in LambdaMOO, a popular virtual world frequented by hundreds of users. We present a detailed discussion of the fun...
Charles Lee Isbell Jr., Michael J. Kearns, David P...
AAAI
2000
13 years 5 months ago
A Mechanism for Group Decision Making in Collaborative Activity
The SharedPlans formalization of collaboration (Grosz and Kraus 1999) stipulates that collaborating agents must commit to certain decision-making processes, but it does not specif...
Luke Hunsberger, Massimo Zancanaro
AAAI
2000
13 years 5 months ago
A Conjunctive Query Language for Description Logic Aboxes
A serious shortcoming of many Description Logic based knowledge representation systems is the inadequacy of their query languages. In this paper we present a novel technique that ...
Ian Horrocks, Sergio Tessaris
AAAI
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Solving Combinatorial Auctions Using Stochastic Local Search
Combinatorial auctions (CAs) have emerged as an important model in economics and show promise as a useful tool for tackling resource allocation in AI. Unfortunately, winner determ...
Holger H. Hoos, Craig Boutilier
AAAI
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Graph Construction and Analysis as a Paradigm for Plan Recognition
We present a novel approach to plan recognition in which graph construction and analysis is used as a paradigm. We use a graph structure called a Goal Graph for the plan recogniti...
Jun Hong
AAAI
2000
13 years 5 months ago
A Logic for Planning under Partial Observability
We propose an epistemic dynamic logic EDL able to represent the interactions between action and knowledge that are fundamental to planning under partial observability. EDL enables...
Andreas Herzig, Jérôme Lang, Dominiqu...
AAAI
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Recognizing End-User Transactions in Performance Management
Providing good quality of service (e.g., low response times) in distributed computer systems requires measuring enduser perceptions of performance. Unfortunately, such measures ar...
Joseph L. Hellerstein, T. S. Jayram, Irina Rish