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AIMSA
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Mapping Properties of Heterogeneous Ontologies
Abstract. State of the art formalisms for distributed ontology integration provide ways to express semantic relations between concepts belonging to different ontologies. However, t...
Chiara Ghidini, Luciano Serafini
AIMSA
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Dealing with Spoken Requests in a Multimodal Question Answering System
Abstract. This paper reports on experiments performed in the development of the QALL-ME system, a multilingual QA infrastructure capable of handling input requests both in written ...
Roberto Gretter, Milen Kouylekov, Matteo Negri
AIMSA
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Tailoring the Interpretation of Spatial Utterances for Playing a Board Game
In order to build an intelligent system that allows human beings to cooperate with a computing machine to perform a given task it is important to account for the individual charact...
Andrea Corradini
AIMSA
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Prototypes Based Relational Learning
Relational instance-based learning (RIBL) algorithms offer high prediction capabilities. However, they do not scale up well, specially in domains where there is a time bound for c...
Rocío García-Durán, Fernando ...
AIMSA
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Logical Approach to Dynamic Role-Based Access Control
Since its formalization RBAC has become the yardstick for the evaluation of access control formalisms. In order to meet organizational needs, it has been extended along several di...
Philippe Balbiani, Yannick Chevalier, Marwa El Hou...
AIMSA
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Using Text Segmentation to Enhance the Cluster Hypothesis
An alternative way to tackle Information Retrieval, called Passage Retrieval, considers text fragments independently rather than assessing global relevance of documents. In such a ...
Sylvain Lamprier, Tassadit Amghar, Bernard Levrat,...
AIMSA
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Agent Modeling Language (AMOLA)
This paper presents the Agent MOdeling LAnguage (AMOLA). This language provides the syntax and semantics for creating models of multi-agent systems covering the analysis and design...
Nikolaos I. Spanoudakis, Pavlos Moraitis
AIMSA
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Noun Compound Interpretation Using Paraphrasing Verbs: Feasibility Study
Abstract. The paper addresses an important challenge for the automatic processing of English written text: understanding noun compounds’ semantics. Following Downing (1977) [1], ...
Preslav Nakov
AIMSA
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Nested Precedence Networks with Alternatives: Recognition, Tractability, and Models
Integrated modeling of temporal and logical constraints is important for solving real-life planning and scheduling problems. Logical constrains extend the temporal formalism by rea...
Roman Barták, Ondrej Cepek
AIMSA
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Solving the Course Timetabling Problem with a Hybrid Heuristic Algorithm
Abstract. The problem of curriculum-based course timetabling is studied in this work. In addition to formally defining the problem, we present a hybrid solution algorithm (Adaptiv...
Zhipeng Lü, Jin-Kao Hao