Previous work on ordering events in text has typically focused on local pairwise decisions, ignoring globally inconsistent labels. However, temporal ordering is the type of domain...
We present Variable Influence Structure Analysis, or VISA, an algorithm that performs hierarchical decomposition of factored Markov decision processes. VISA uses a dynamic Bayesia...
The task of coreference resolution requires people or systems to decide when two referring expressions refer to the `same' entity or event. In real text, this is often a diff...
AI planning research is now maturing and nding practical application in the commercial, industrial, engineering and defence sectors. This has led to a rapid expansion in the last ...
It is vital to use accurate models for the analysis, design, and/or control of business processes. Unfortunately, there are often important discrepancies between reality and models...