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ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A statistical relational model for trust learning
We address the learning of trust based on past observations and context information. We argue that from the truster's point of view trust is best expressed as one of several ...
Achim Rettinger, Matthias Nickles, Volker Tresp
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Reward shaping for valuing communications during multi-agent coordination
Decentralised coordination in multi-agent systems is typically achieved using communication. However, in many cases, communication is expensive to utilise because there is limited...
Simon A. Williamson, Enrico H. Gerding, Nicholas R...
SAFECOMP
1998
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
An Agenda for Specifying Software Components with Complex Data Models
Abstract. We present a method to specify software for a special kind of safetycritical embedded systems, where sensors deliver low-level values that must be abstracted and pre-proc...
Kirsten Winter, Thomas Santen, Maritta Heisel
CEC
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
A Utile Function Optimizer
Abstract— We recast the problem of unconstrained continuous evolutionary optimization as inference in a fixed graphical model. This approach allows us to address several pervasi...
Christopher K. Monson, Kevin D. Seppi, James L. Ca...
UAI
1996
13 years 9 months ago
A Qualitative Markov Assumption and Its Implications for Belief Change
The study of belief change has been an active area in philosophy and AI. In recent years, two special cases of belief change, belief revision and belief update, have been studied ...
Nir Friedman, Joseph Y. Halpern