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IJCAI
2003
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Maximizing Flexibility: A Retraction Heuristic for Oversubscribed Scheduling Problems
In this paper we consider the solution of scheduling problems that are inherently over-subscribed. In such problems, there are always more tasks to execute within a given time fra...
Laurence A. Kramer, Stephen F. Smith
IJCAI
2003
14 years 12 months ago
Information Extraction from Web Documents Based on Local Unranked Tree Automaton Inference
Information extraction (IE) aims at extracting specific information from a collection of documents. A lot of previous work on 10 from semi-structured documents (in XML or HTML) us...
Raymond Kosala, Maurice Bruynooghe, Jan Van den Bu...
IJCAI
2003
14 years 12 months ago
An Improved Algorithm for Optimal Bin Packing
Given a set of numbers, and a set of bins of fixed capacity, the NP-complete problem of bin packing is to find the minimum number of bins needed to contain the numbers, such that ...
Richard E. Korf
IJCAI
2003
14 years 12 months ago
Quantifying information and contradiction in propositional logic through test actions
Degrees of information and of contradiction are investigated within a uniform propositional framework, based on test actions. We consider that the degree of information of a propo...
Sébastien Konieczny, Jérôme La...
IJCAI
2003
14 years 12 months ago
NoA - A Normative Agent Architecture
NoA is an agent architecture that supports the development of agents motivated by norms: obligations, permissions and prohibitions. Obligations motivate a normative agent to act: ...
Martin J. Kollingbaum, Timothy J. Norman
IJCAI
2003
14 years 12 months ago
Describing and Utilizing Constraints to Answer Queries in Data-Integration Systems
In data-integration systems, information sources often have various constraints such as “all houses stored at a source have a unique address.” These constraints are very usefu...
Chen Li
IJCAI
2003
14 years 12 months ago
Tractable Pareto Optimization of Temporal Preferences
Lina Khatib, Paul H. Morris, Robert A. Morris, Kri...
IJCAI
2003
14 years 12 months ago
Deploying Information Agents on the Web
The information resources on the Web are vast, but much of the Web is based on a browsing paradigm that requires someone to actively seek information. Instead, one would like to h...
Craig A. Knoblock