Coalition formation is a problem of great interest in AI, allowing groups of autonomous, individually rational agents to form stable teams. Automating the negotiations underlying ...
In this paper we introduce Refractor Importance Sampling (RIS), an improvement to reduce error variance in Bayesian network importance sampling propagation under evidential reason...
Determining the occurrence of an event is fundamental to developing systems that can observe and react to them. Often, this determination is based on collecting video and/or audio...
Dmitry N. Zotkin, Ramani Duraiswami, Larry S. Davi...
Bayesian KnowledgeBases (BKB)are a rule-based probabilistic modelthat extend BayesNetworks(BN), by allowing context-sensitive independenceand cycles in the directed graph. BKBshav...
A central issue in principal component analysis (PCA) is choosing the number of principal components to be retained. By interpreting PCA as density estimation, this paper shows ho...