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AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Understanding the Pheromone System Within Ant Colony Optimization
Abstract. Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a collection of metaheuristics inspired by foraging in ant colonies, whose aim is to solve combinatorial optimization problems. We identi...
Stephen Gilmour, Mark Dras
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
A Comparison of Evolutionary Methods for the Discovery of Local Search Heuristics
Abstract. Methods of adaptive constraint satisfaction have recently become of interest to overcome the limitations imposed on “black-box” search algorithms by the no free lunch...
Stuart Bain, John Thornton, Abdul Sattar
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Model Checking for PRS-Like Agents
The key problem in applying verification techniques such as model checking to agent architectures is to show how to map systematically from an agent program to a model structure t...
Wayne Wobcke, Marc Chee, Krystian Ji
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Personalized Recommendation System for Electronic Program Guide
This paper proposes an idea for constructing a personalized recommendation system for the Electronic Program Guide (EPG). This system would use a basic statistics method with feedb...
Jin An Xu, Kenji Araki
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Neighborhood Re-structuring in Particle Swarm Optimization
This paper considers the use of randomly generated directed graphs as neighborhoods for particle swarm optimizers (PSO) using fully informed particles (FIPS), together with dynamic...
Arvind S. Mohais, Rui Mendes, Christopher Ward, Ch...
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Structure-Based Algorithms for Computing Preferred Arguments of Defeasible Knowledge Bases
In this paper we present several efficient computational procedures for defeasible reasoning while the plausible and well-defined semantics, viz. preferred models and stable mode...
Quoc Bao Vo
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Virtual Room Inhabitant - Intuitive Interaction with Intelligent Environments
In this paper we describe a new way to improve the usability of complex hardware setups in Intelligent Environments. By introducing a virtual character, we facilitate intuitive int...
Michael Kruppa, Lübomira Spassova, Michael Sc...
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Structural Abstraction Experiments in Reinforcement Learning
Robert Fitch, Bernhard Hengst, Dorian Suc, Gregory...
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Ensemble Selection for SuperParent-One-Dependence Estimators
SuperParent-One-Dependence Estimators (SPODEs) loosen Naive-Bayes’ attribute independence assumption by allowing each attribute to depend on a common single attribute (superpare...
Ying Yang, Kevin B. Korb, Kai Ming Ting, Geoffrey ...
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Locating Regions of Interest in CBIR with Multi-instance Learning Techniques
In content-based image retrieval (CBIR), the user usually poses several labelled images and then the system attempts to retrieve all the images relevant to the target concept defi...
Zhi-Hua Zhou, Xiao-Bing Xue, Yuan Jiang