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2011
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2011
Effective access to knowledge within large declarative memory stores is one challenge in the development and understanding of long-living, generally intelligent agents. We focus o...
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AAAI
2011
14 years 3 months ago
2011
This paper describes a new model for understanding natural language commands given to autonomous systems that perform navigation and mobile manipulation in semi-structured environ...
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AAAI
2011
14 years 3 months ago
2011
Recognizing possibly thousands of objects is a crucial capability for an autonomous agent to understand and interact with everyday environments. Practical object recognition comes...
139
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AAAI
2011
14 years 3 months ago
2011
In this paper we propose differential eligibility vectors (DEV) for temporal-difference (TD) learning, a new class of eligibility vectors designed to bring out the contribution of...
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AAAI
2011
14 years 3 months ago
2011
Suppose an unpredictable evader is free to move around in a polygonal environment of arbitrary complexity that is under full camera surveillance. How many pursuers, each with the ...
150
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AAAI
2011
14 years 3 months ago
2011
Information about the spread of crop disease is vital in developing countries, and as a result the governments of such countries devote scarce resources to gathering such data. Un...
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AAAI
2011
14 years 3 months ago
2011
Many algorithms for performing inference in graphical models have complexity that is exponential in the treewidth - a parameter of the underlying graph structure. Computing the (m...
145
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AAAI
2011
14 years 3 months ago
2011
Automated feature discovery is a fundamental problem in machine learning. Although classical feature discovery methods do not guarantee optimal solutions in general, it has been r...
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AAAI
2011
14 years 3 months ago
2011
Freuder and Elfe (1996) introduced Neighborhood Inverse Consistency (NIC) for binary CSPs. In this paper, we introduce RNIC, the extension of NIC to nonbinary CSPs, and describe a...
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AAAI
2011
14 years 3 months ago
2011
The utility of including cyclic flow of control in plans has been long recognized by the planning community. Loops in a plan increase both its applicability and the compactness o...