We consider the role played by the concept of action in AI. We first briefly summarize the advantages and limitations of past approaches to taking the concept as primitive, as emb...
The problem of modeling a variety of domains within the framework of one general scheme is of central importance in AI. This paper presents the MultiEntity model for multi-agent p...
For a prime p and a vector ¯α = (α1, . . . , αk) ∈ Zk p let f (¯α, p) be the largest n such that in each set A ⊆ Zp of n elements one can find x which has a unique repr...
A minimal k-cycle is a family of sets A0, . . . , Ak−1 for which Ai ∩ Aj = ∅ if and only if i = j or i and j are consecutive modulo k. Let fr(n, k) be the maximum size of a ...
Contextual vocabulary acquisition (CVA) is the active, deliberate acquisition of a meaning for an unknown word in a text by reasoning from textual clues, prior knowledge, and hypo...