High dimensional data that lies on or near a low dimensional manifold can be described by a collection of local linear models. Such a description, however, does not provide a glob...
Sam T. Roweis, Lawrence K. Saul, Geoffrey E. Hinto...
Many multi-agent systems seek to reconcile two apparently inconsistent constraints. The system’s overall objective is defined at a global level. However, the agents have only lo...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, John A. Saute...
Abstract. In a previous paper, we proposed a first formal and conceptual comparison between the two most important formalizations of context in AI: Propositional Logic of Context ...
Complex environmental modeling often involves a large number of unknown physical and ecological parameters. Parameter estimation is one of the most difficult steps in many modelin...
In large-scale, distributed software systems, an important management undertaking concerns the creation and runtime modification of application instances. This short paper propose...