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AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Lagrangian Heuristic for Winner Determination Problem in Combinatorial Auctions
Abstract. We present a Lagrangian-based heuristic LAHA for the Winner Determination Problem in Combinatorial Auctions. The algorithm makes use of the market computing power by appl...
Andrew Lim, Jiqing Tang
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Intelligent 3D Video Avatar for Immersive Telecommunication
Immersive telecommunication is a new challenging field that enables a user to share a virtual space with remote participants. The main objective is to offer rich communication moda...
Sang Yup Lee, Ig-Jae Kim, Sang Chul Ahn, Myo-Taeg ...
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
New Fuzzy Skin Model for Face Detection
Abstract. We discuss the face detection method by using skin information. Skin color has proven to be a useful and robust cue for face detection, localization and tracking. Numerou...
Moon Hwan Kim, Jin Bae Park, Young Hoon Joo
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Virtual Prolog Approach to Implementing Beliefs, Desires and Intentions in Animat Agents
Simulating a system of agents that navigate in a physical space is a challenging problem when the environment is sophisticated and the number of agents involved is large. We descr...
Kenneth A. Hawick, Heath A. James, C. J. Scogings
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Automated Scene Understanding for Airport Aprons
Abstract. This paper presents a complete visual surveillance system for automatic scene interpretation of airport aprons. The system comprises two main modules — Scene Tracking a...
James M. Ferryman, Mark Borg, David Thirde, Floren...
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Multi-exchange Heuristic for a Production Location Problem
In this work, we develop a multi-exchange heuristic based on an estimation improvement graph embedded in a simulated annealing to solve a problem arising in plant location planning...
Yunsong Guo, Yanzhi Li, Andrew Lim, Brian Rodrigue...
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Conditioning Graphs: Practical Structures for Inference in Bayesian Networks
Abstract. Programmers employing inference in Bayesian networks typically rely on the inclusion of the model as well as an inference engine into their application. Sophisticated inf...
Kevin Grant, Michael C. Horsch
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Model Checking Sum and Product
We model the well-known Sum-and-Product problem in a modal logic, and verify its solution in a model checker. The modal logic is public announcement logic. The riddle is then imple...
Hans P. van Ditmarsch, Ji Ruan, L. C. Verbrugge
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Preferences of Agents in Defeasible Logic
We are interested in programming languages for cognitive agents with preferences. We define rule-based agent theories and inference procedures in defeasible logic, and in this set...
Mehdi Dastani, Guido Governatori, Antonino Rotolo,...
AUSAI
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Finding Similar Patterns in Microarray Data
Abstract. In this paper we propose a clustering algorithm called sCluster for analysis of gene expression data based on pattern-similarity. The algorithm captures the tight cluster...
Xiangsheng Chen, Jiuyong Li, Grant Daggard, Xiaodi...