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AI
2002
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
On the Role of Contextual Weak Independence in Probabilistic Inference
Previous experimental results have clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of utilizing context-specific independence (CSI) in probabilistic inference. However, CSI is a special cas...
Cory J. Butz, Manon J. Sanscartier
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Modeling Organizational Rules in the Multi-agent Systems Engineering Methodology
Recently, two advances in agent-oriented software engineering have had a significant impact: the identification of interaction and coordination as the central focus of multi-agent ...
Scott A. DeLoach
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Using Inter-agent Trust Relationships for Efficient Coalition Formation
We address long-term coalitions that are formed of both customer and vendor agents after evaluating their trust relationships with other agents in the system. We present a coalitio...
Silvia Breban, Julita Vassileva
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Relaxed Unification - Proposal
Abstract. The traditional unification is strict in the sense that it requires a perfect agreement between the terms being unified. In practice, data is seldom error-free and can co...
Tony Abou-Assaleh, Nick Cercone