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AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Classification Spanning Private Databases
In this paper, we study the classification problem involving information spanning multiple private databases. The privacy challenges lie in the facts that data cannot be collected...
Ke Wang, Yabo Xu, Rong She, Philip S. Yu
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
The Tactical Language and Culture Training System: A Demonstration
In this demonstration we will present the Tactical Iraqi, one of the implementations of the Tactical Language and Culture Training System (TLTS). The system helps learners acquire...
André Valente, W. Lewis Johnson, Hannes H&o...
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Action Selection in Bayesian Reinforcement Learning
My research attempts to address on-line action selection in reinforcement learning from a Bayesian perspective. The idea is to develop more effective action selection techniques b...
Tao Wang
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Contract Enactment in Virtual Organizations: A Commitment-Based Approach
A virtual organization (VO) is a dynamic collection of entities (individuals, enterprises, and information resources) collaborating on some computational activity. VOs are an emer...
Yathiraj B. Udupi, Munindar P. Singh
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
From Pigeons to Humans: Grounding Relational Learning in Concrete Examples
We present a cognitive model that bridges work in analogy and category learning. The model, Building Relations through Instance Driven Gradient Error Shifting (BRIDGES), extends A...
Marc T. Tomlinson, Bradley C. Love
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
A Characterization of Interventional Distributions in Semi-Markovian Causal Models
We offer a complete characterization of the set of distributions that could be induced by local interventions on variables governed by a causal Bayesian network of unknown structu...
Jin Tian, Changsung Kang, Judea Pearl
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Reinforcement Learning with Human Teachers: Evidence of Feedback and Guidance with Implications for Learning Performance
As robots become a mass consumer product, they will need to learn new skills by interacting with typical human users. Past approaches have adapted reinforcement learning (RL) to a...
Andrea Lockerd Thomaz, Cynthia Breazeal
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Conflict Resolution and a Framework for Collaborative Interactive Evolution
Interactive evolutionary computation (IEC) has proven useful in a variety of applications by combining the subjective evaluation of a user with the massive parallel search power o...
Sean R. Szumlanski, Annie S. Wu, Charles E. Hughes
AAAI
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Point-based Dynamic Programming for DEC-POMDPs
We introduce point-based dynamic programming (DP) for decentralized partially observable Markov decision processes (DEC-POMDPs), a new discrete DP algorithm for planning strategie...
Daniel Szer, François Charpillet