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AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Tenth Anniversary of the Plastics Color Formulation Tool
Since 1994 GE Plastics has employed a case-based reasoning tool that determines color formulas which match requested colors. This tool, called FormTool, has saved GE millions of d...
William Cheetham
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Exploring More Realistic Evaluation Measures for Collaborative Filtering
Collaborative filtering is a popular technique for recommending items to people. Several methods for collaborative filtering have been proposed in the literature and the quality o...
Giuseppe Carenini, Rita Sharma
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Low-Knowledge Algorithm Control
This paper addresses the question of allocating computational resources among a set of algorithms in order to achieve the best performance on a scheduling problem instance. Our pr...
Tom Carchrae, J. Christopher Beck
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Visual Odometry Using Commodity Optical Flow
A wide variety of techniques for visual navigation using robot-mounted cameras have been described over the past several decades, yet adoption of optical flow navigation technique...
Jason Campbell, Rahul Sukthankar, Illah R. Nourbak...
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Skill Acquisition and Use for a Dynamically-Balancing Soccer Robot
Dynamically-balancing robots have recently been made available by Segway LLC, in the form of the Segway RMP (Robot Mobility Platform). We have addressed the challenge of using the...
Brett Browning, Ling Xu, Manuela M. Veloso
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Effective Approaches for Partial Satisfaction (Over-Subscription) Planning
In many real world planning scenarios, agents often do not have enough resources to achieve all of their goals. Consequently, they are forced to find plans that satisfy only a sub...
Menkes van den Briel, Romeo Sanchez Nigenda, Minh ...
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Stochastic Local Search for POMDP Controllers
The search for finite-state controllers for partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) is often based on approaches like gradient ascent, attractive because of their ...
Darius Braziunas, Craig Boutilier
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Domain Transmutation in Constraint Satisfaction Problems
We study local interchangeability of values in constraint networks based on a new approach where a single value in the domain of a variable can be treated as a combination of &quo...
James Bowen, Chavalit Likitvivatanavong
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Eliciting Bid Taker Non-price Preferences in (Combinatorial) Auctions
Recent algorithms provide powerful solutions to the problem of determining cost-minimizing (or revenue-maximizing) allocations of items in combinatorial auctions. However, in many...
Craig Boutilier, Tuomas Sandholm, Rob Shields