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AAAI
1997
13 years 11 months ago
Structured Solution Methods for Non-Markovian Decision Processes
Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), currently a popular method for modeling and solving decision theoretic planning problems, are limited by the Markovian assumption: rewards and dy...
Fahiem Bacchus, Craig Boutilier, Adam J. Grove
AAAI
1997
13 years 11 months ago
Building Concept Representations from Reusable Components
Our goal is to build knowledge-based systems capable of answering a wide variety of questions, including questions that are unanticipated when the knowledge base is built. For sys...
Peter Clark, Bruce W. Porter
AAAI
1997
13 years 11 months ago
Symbolic Nearest Mean Classifiers
The minimum-distance classifier summarizes each class with a prototype and then uses a nearest neighbor approach for classification. Three drawbacks of the original minimum-distan...
Piew Datta, Dennis F. Kibler
AAAI
1997
13 years 11 months ago
Effective Redundant Constraints for Online Scheduling
The use of heuristics as a means to improve constraint solver performance has been researched widely. However, most work has been on problem-independentheuristics (e.g., variable ...
Lise Getoor, Greger Ottosson, Markus P. J. Fromher...
AAAI
1997
13 years 11 months ago
Evidence for Invariants in Local Search
It is well known that the performance of a stochastic local search procedure depends upon the setting of its noise parameter, and that the optimal setting varies with the problem ...
David A. McAllester, Bart Selman, Henry A. Kautz