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FLAIRS
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Decomposing Local Probability Distributions in Bayesian Networks for Improved Inference and Parameter Learning
A major difficulty in building Bayesian network models is the size of conditional probability tables, which grow exponentially in the number of parents. One way of dealing with th...
Adam Zagorecki, Mark Voortman, Marek J. Druzdzel
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Clue Deduction: Professor Plum Teaches Logic
In this paper, we describe curricular materials that use the game of Clue to teach basic concepts of propositional logic. While there are many ways of teaching concepts of logic, ...
Todd W. Neller, Zdravko Markov, Ingrid Russell
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 10 months ago
"Consciousness" as the Foundation for Diagnosis in a Human-Like Tutoring Agent
Interacting with humans requires subtlety if one is to be perceived as a great and pleasant tutor.
Daniel Dubois, Roger Nkambou, Patrick Hohmeyer
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Fuzzy Model Optimization Using Genetic Algorithm for Aircraft Engine Diagnosis
An accurate and up-to-date diagnostic model is critical for economic aircraft engine operation. However, for many commercial airline fleets, monitoring and diagnosing engine fault...
LiJie Yu, Daniel J. Cleary, Mark D. Osborn, Vrinda...
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 10 months ago
A Cognitive Approach for Gateway Relocation in Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless sensor networks are composed of a number of sensors probing their surroundings and disseminating the collected data to a gateway node for processing. Numerous military an...
Waleed A. Youssef, Mohamed F. Younis
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Verbalization Enhanced Tutoring
Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) typically contain elements of instruction, assessment, feedback and guidance for the trainee. Most of the time, the ITS is controlling the dialo...
Christel Kemke, Shamima Mithun
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Inexact Graph Matching: A Case of Study
Inexact graph matching has become an important research area because it is used to find similarities among objects in several real domains such as chemical and biological compound...
Ivan Olmos, Jesus A. Gonzalez, Mauricio Osorio
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Annotation of the Complex Terms in Multilingual Corpora
For a long time categorial grammars were regarded as "toys grammars". Indeed, in spite of a very solid theoretical base, categorial grammars remain rather marginal as so...
Ismaïl Biskri, Boubaker Meddeb-Hamrouni, Nico...
FLAIRS
2006
13 years 10 months ago
Tabu Search for a Car Sequencing Problem
The goal of this paper is to propose a tabu search heuristic for the car sequencing problem (CSP) used for the ROADEF 2005 international Challenge. This NP-hard problem was propos...
Nicolas Zufferey, Martin Studer, Edward A. Silver