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AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Approximate Counting by Sampling the Backtrack-free Search Space
We present a new estimator for counting the number of solutions of a Boolean satisfiability problem as a part of an importance sampling framework. The estimator uses the recently...
Vibhav Gogate, Rina Dechter
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Towards a Cognitive Model of Crowd Behavior Based on Social Comparison Theory
Models of crowd behavior facilitate analysis and prediction of human group behavior, where people are affected by each other’s presence. Unfortunately, existing models leave man...
Natalie Fridman, Gal A. Kaminka
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Making the Difference in Semantic Web Service Composition
Automation of Web service composition is one of the most interesting challenges facing the Semantic Web today. In this paper we propose a mean of performing automated Web service ...
Freddy Lécué, Alexandre Delteil
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Predictive Exploration for Autonomous Science
Often remote investigations use autonomous agents to observe an environment on behalf of absent scientists. Predictive exploration improves these systems’ efficiency with onboa...
David R. Thompson
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Unscented Message Passing for Arbitrary Continuous Variables in Bayesian Networks
Since Bayesian network (BN) was introduced in the field of artificial intelligence in 1980s, a number of inference algorithms have been developed for probabilistic reasoning. Ho...
Wei Sun, Kuo-Chu Chang
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Finding Related Pages Using Green Measures: An Illustration with Wikipedia
We introduce a new method for finding nodes semantically related to a given node in a hyperlinked graph: the Green method, based on a classical Markov chain tool. It is generic, ...
Yann Ollivier, Pierre Senellart
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Modeling Reciprocal Behavior in Human Bilateral Negotiation
Reciprocity is a key determinant of human behavior and has been well documented in the psychological and behavioral economics literature. This paper shows that reciprocity has sig...
Ya'akov Gal, Avi Pfeffer
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Learning Language Semantics from Ambiguous Supervision
This paper presents a method for learning a semantic parser from ambiguous supervision. Training data consists of natural language sentences annotated with multiple potential mean...
Rohit J. Kate, Raymond J. Mooney
AAAI
2007
13 years 7 months ago
Best-First AND/OR Search for Graphical Models
The paper presents and evaluates the power of best-first search over AND/OR search spaces in graphical models. The main virtue of the AND/OR representation is its sensitivity to ...
Radu Marinescu 0002, Rina Dechter