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AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Affective Recruitment of Distributed Heterogeneous Agents
Members of multi-robot teams may need to collaborate to accomplish a task due to differences in capabilities. This paper describes an extension of the ALLIANCE architecture that e...
Aaron Gage, Robin R. Murphy
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Rapid Object Recognition from Discriminative Regions of Interest
Object recognition and detection represent a relevant component in cognitive computer vision systems, such as in robot vision, intelligent video surveillance systems, or multi-mod...
Gerald Fritz, Christin Seifert, Lucas Paletta, Hor...
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
SOFIA's Choice: An AI Approach to Scheduling Airborne Astronomy Observations
We describe an innovative solution to the problem of scheduling astronomy observations for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, an airborne observatory. The probl...
Jeremy Frank, Michael A. K. Gross, Elif Kürkl...
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
VModel: A Visual Qualitative Modeling Environment for Middle-School Students
Learning how to create, test, and revise models is a central skill in scientific reasoning. We argue that qualitative modeling provides an appropriate level of representation for ...
Kenneth D. Forbus, Karen Carney, Bruce L. Sherin, ...
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Metrics for Finite Markov Decision Processes
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Norm Ferns, Prakash Panangaden, Doina Precup
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Compressing Pattern Databases
A pattern database is a heuristic function stored as a lookup table which stores the lengths of optimal solutions for instances of subproblems. All previous pattern databases had ...
Ariel Felner, Ram Meshulam, Robert C. Holte, Richa...
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Complete Local Search for Propositional Satisfiability
Algorithms based on following local gradient information are surprisingly effective for certain classes of constraint satisfaction problems. Unfortunately, previous local search a...
Hai Fang, Wheeler Ruml
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Interpreting Loosely Encoded Questions
Knowledge-based question-answering systems have become quite competent and robust at answering a wide range of questions in different domains, however in order to ask questions co...
James Fan, Bruce W. Porter
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Methods for Domain-Independent Information Extraction from the Web: An Experimental Comparison
Our KNOWITALL system aims to automate the tedious process of extracting large collections of facts (e.g., names of scientists or politicians) from the Web in an autonomous, domain...
Oren Etzioni, Michael J. Cafarella, Doug Downey, A...
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Engineering Open Multi-Agent Systems as Electronic Institutions
Marc Esteva, David de la Cruz, Bruno Rosell, Josep...