The paper describes a simulation substrate that allows thinking agents to interact with a world. The world is simulated by standard discrete event simulation, but the timing of an...
For many companies the scheduling of job shops proves very difficult. Competing priorities (due dates, potential profit) from multiple customers confronts the plant manager with m...
Rule induction research implicitly assumes that after producing the rules from a dataset, these rules will be used directly by an expert system or a human user. In real-life appli...
Robots act upon and perceive the world from a particular perspective. It is important to recognize this relativity to perspective if one is not to be overly demanding in specifyin...
The challenge of managing unstructured data represents perhaps the largest data management opportunity for our community since managing relational data. And yet we are risking let...
AnHai Doan, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Akanksha Baid, Xi...