AND/OR search spaces have recently been introduced as a unifying paradigm for advanced algorithmic schemes for graphical models. The main virtue of this representation is its sensi...
We describe a mechanism which recognizes a user's intentions from short-form rejoinders to arguments generated from Bayesian networks. The mechanism builds candidate reasoning...
Ingrid Zukerman, Nathalie Jitnah, Richard McConach...
Character behaviors in computer role-playing games have a significant impact on game-play, but are often difficult for game authors to implement and adapt. We present a behavior m...
Maria Cutumisu, Duane Szafron, Jonathan Schaeffer,...
LPG is a planner that performed very well in the last International planning competition (2002). The system is based on a stochastic local search procedure, and it incorporates se...
Multi-point constructive search (MPCS) performs a series of resource-limited backtracking searches where each search begins either from an empty solution (as in randomized restart...