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AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Sensor-Based Understanding of Daily Life via Large-Scale Use of Common Sense
The use of large quantities of common sense has long been thought to be critical to the automated understanding of the world. To this end, various groups have collected repositori...
William Pentney, Ana-Maria Popescu, Shiaokai Wang,...
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Locally Optimal Algorithms and Solutions for Distributed Constraint Optimization
This paper summarizes the author's recent work in distributed constraint optimization (DCOP). New local algorithms, as well as theoretical results about the types of solution...
Jonathan P. Pearce
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Using the Semantic Web to Integrate Ecoinformatics Resources
We demonstrate an end-to-end use case of the semantic web's utility for synthesizing ecological and environmental data. ELVIS (the Ecosystem Location Visualization and Inform...
Cynthia Sims Parr, Andriy Parafiynyk, Joel Sachs, ...
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Overconfidence or Paranoia? Search in Imperfect-Information Games
We derive a recursive formula for expected utility values in imperfect- information game trees, and an imperfectinformation game tree search algorithm based on it. The formula and...
Austin Parker, Dana S. Nau, V. S. Subrahmanian
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
TacTex-05: A Champion Supply Chain Management Agent
Supply chains are ubiquitous in the manufacturing of many complex products. Traditionally, supply chains have been created through the interactions of human representatives of the...
David Pardoe, Peter Stone
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
A Manifold Regularization Approach to Calibration Reduction for Sensor-Network Based Tracking
The ability to accurately detect the location of a mobile node in a sensor network is important for many artificial intelligence (AI) tasks that range from robotics to context-awa...
Jeffrey Junfeng Pan, Qiang Yang, Hong Chang, Dit-Y...
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
An Investigation into the Feasibility of the Semantic Web
This report is an expanded version of a paper in AAAI-2006 proceedings. In this report, we investigate the challenges that must be addressed for the Semantic Web to become a feasi...
Zhengxiang Pan, Abir Qasem, Jeff Heflin
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Compiling Uncertainty Away: Solving Conformant Planning Problems using a Classical Planner (Sometimes)
Even under polynomial restrictions on plan length, conformant planning remains a very hard computational problem as plan verification itself can take exponential time. This heavy ...
Héctor Palacios, Hector Geffner
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Strategy Variations in Analogical Problem Solving
While it is commonly agreed that analogy is useful in human problem solving, exactly how analogy can and should be used remains an intriguing problem. VanLehn (1998) for instance ...
Tom Y. Ouyang, Kenneth D. Forbus
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Characterizing Data Complexity for Conjunctive Query Answering in Expressive Description Logics
Description Logics (DLs) are the formal foundations of the standard web ontology languages OWL-DL and OWL-Lite. In the Semantic Web and other domains, ontologies are increasingly ...
Magdalena Ortiz, Diego Calvanese, Thomas Eiter