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AI
1999
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Learning by Discovering Concept Hierarchies
We present a new machine learning method that, given a set of training examples, induces a definition of the target concept in terms of a hierarchy of intermediate concepts and th...
Blaz Zupan, Marko Bohanec, Janez Demsar, Ivan Brat...
AI
1999
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Using Grice's maxim of Quantity to select the content of plan descriptions
Intelligent systems are often called upon to form plans that direct their own or other agents' activities. For these systems, the ability to describe plans to people in natur...
R. Michael Young
AI
1999
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Computing a Representation of the Local Environment
Yeap [42] argued that an important basis for computing a cognitive map is the ability to compute and recognise local environments. Although he has demonstrated how such local envi...
Wai K. Yeap, Margaret E. Jefferies
AI
1999
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Cooperation without Deliberation: A Minimal Behavior-based Approach to Multi-Robot Teams
While terminology and some concepts of behavior-based robotics have become widespread, the central ideas are often lost as researchers try to scale behavior to higher levels of co...
Barry Brian Werger
AI
1999
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Building Agent Teams Using an Explicit Teamwork Model and Learning
Milind Tambe, Jafar Adibi, Y. Alonaizon, Ali Erdem...
AI
1999
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Task Decomposition, Dynamic Role Assignment, and Low-Bandwidth Communication for Real-Time Strategic Teamwork
Multi-agent domains consisting of teams of agents that need to collaborate in an adversarial environment offer challengingresearch opportunities. In this article, we introduce per...
Peter Stone, Manuela M. Veloso
AI
1999
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Emergent Cooperative Goal-Satisfaction in Large Scale Automated-Agent Systems
Cooperation among autonomous agents has been discussed in the DAI community for several years. Papers about cooperation 6,45 , negotiation 33 , distributed planning 5 , and coalit...
Onn Shehory, Sarit Kraus, Osher Yadgar
AI
1999
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Coalition Structure Generation with Worst Case Guarantees
Coalition formation is a key topic in multiagent systems. One may prefer a coalition structure that maximizes the sum of the values of the coalitions, but often the number of coal...
Tuomas Sandholm, Kate Larson, Martin Andersson, On...
AI
1999
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
An Affective Mobile Robot Educator with a Full-Time Job
Sage is a robot that has been installed at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History as a full-time autonomous member of the staff. Its goal is to provide educational content to muse...
Illah R. Nourbakhsh