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IJCAI
2001
13 years 6 months ago
From Images to Bodies: Modelling and Exploiting Spatial Occlusion and Motion Parallax
This paper describes the Region Occlusion Calculus (ROC-20), that can be used to model spatial occlusion and the effects of motion parallax of arbitrary shaped objects. ROC-20 ass...
David A. Randell, Mark Witkowski, Murray Shanahan
IJCAI
2001
13 years 6 months ago
The Levelwise Version Space Algorithm and its Application to Molecular Fragment Finding
A tight integration of Mitchell's version space algorithm with Agrawal et al.'s Apriori algorithm is presented. The algorithm can be used to generate patterns that satis...
Luc De Raedt, Stefan Kramer
IJCAI
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Heterogeneity in the Coevolved Behaviors of Mobile Robots: The Emergence of Specialists
Many mobile robot tasks can be most efficiently solved when a group of robots is utilized. The type of organization, and the level of coordination and communication within a team ...
Mitchell A. Potter, Lisa Meeden, Alan C. Schultz
IJCAI
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Planning as Model Checking for Extended Goals in Non-deterministic Domains
Recent research has addressed the problem of planning in non-deterministic domains. Classical planning has also been extended to the case of goals that can express temporal proper...
Marco Pistore, Paolo Traverso
IJCAI
2001
13 years 6 months ago
IBAL: A Probabilistic Rational Programming Language
In a rational programming language, a program specifies a situation faced by an agent; evaluating the program amounts to computing what a rational agent would believe or do in the...
Avi Pfeffer
IJCAI
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Approximate inference for first-order probabilistic languages
A new, general approach is described for approximate inference in first-order probabilistic languages, using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques in the space of concrete po...
Hanna Pasula, Stuart J. Russell
IJCAI
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Achieving Budget-Balance with Vickrey-Based Payment Schemes in Exchanges
Generalized Vickrey mechanisms have received wide attention in the literature because they are efficient and strategyproof, i.e. truthful bidding is optimal whatever the bids of o...
David C. Parkes, Jayant Kalagnanam, Marta Eso
IJCAI
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Causality and Minimal Change Demystified
The Principle of Minimal Change is prevalent in various guises throughout the development of areas such as reasoning about action, belief change and nonmonotonic reasoning. Recent...
Maurice Pagnucco, Pavlos Peppas
IJCAI
2001
13 years 6 months ago
Keyword Spices: A New Method for Building Domain-Specific Web Search Engines
This paper presents a new method for building domain-specific web search engines. Previous methods eliminate irrelevant documents from the pages accessed using heuristics based on...
Satoshi Oyama, Takashi Kokubo, Toru Ishida, Teruhi...