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AI
2005
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
A logic-based model of intention formation and action for multi-agent subcontracting
We present a formalism for representing the formation of intentions by agents engaged in cooperative activity. We use a syntactic approach presenting a formal logical calculus tha...
John Grant, Sarit Kraus, Donald Perlis
AI
2005
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
On intelligence as memory
Jerome A. Feldman
AI
2005
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
A theoretical framework on proactive information exchange in agent teamwork
Proactive information delivery is critical to achieving effective teamwork. However, existing theories do not adequately address proactive information delivery. This paper present...
Xiaocong Fan, John Yen, Richard A. Volz
AI
2005
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
The complexity of contract negotiation
The use of software agents for automatic contract negotiation in e-commerce and e-trading ents has been the subject of considerable recent interest. A widely studied abstract mode...
Paul E. Dunne, Michael Wooldridge, Michael Laurenc...
AI
2005
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Unsupervised named-entity extraction from the Web: An experimental study
The KNOWITALL system aims to automate the tedious process of extracting large collections of facts (e.g., names of scientists or politicians) from the Web in an unsupervised, doma...
Oren Etzioni, Michael J. Cafarella, Doug Downey, A...
AI
2005
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Learning to talk about events from narrated video in a construction grammar framework
The current research presents a system that learns to understand object names, spatial relation terms and event descriptions from observing narrated action sequences. The system e...
Peter Ford Dominey, Jean-David Boucher
AI
2005
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Knowledge and communication: A first-order theory
This paper presents a theory of informative communications among agents that allows a speaker to communicate to a hearer truths about the state of the world; the occurrence of eve...
Ernest Davis
AI
2005
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Towards a practical theory of reformulation for reasoning about physical systems
In this paper, we propose a practical framework for characterizing, evaluating and selecting reformulation techniques for reasoning about physical systems, with the long-term goal...
Berthe Y. Choueiry, Yumi Iwasaki, Sheila A. McIlra...
AI
2005
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
: Compiling problem specifications into SAT
We present a compiler that translates a problem specification into a propositional satisfiability test (SAT). Problems are specified in a logic-based language, called NP-SPEC, whi...
Marco Cadoli, Andrea Schaerf