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AI
2002
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Binary vs. non-binary constraints
Fahiem Bacchus, Xinguang Chen, Peter van Beek, Tob...
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
A hierarchical approach to computer Hex
Hex is a beautiful game with simple rules and a strategic complexity comparable to that of Chess and Go. The massive game-tree search techniques developed mostly for Chess and suc...
Vadim V. Anshelevich
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
A re-weighting strategy for improving margins
We present a simple general scheme for improving margins that is inspired on well known margin theory principles. The scheme is based on a sample re-weighting strategy. The very b...
Fabio Aiolli, Alessandro Sperduti
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
QUANTUM: A Function-Based Question Answering System
Abstract In this paper, we describe our Question Answering (QA) system called QUANTUM. The goal of QUANTUM is to find the answer to a natural language question in a large document ...
Luc Plamondon, Leila Kosseim
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
A Constructive Approach to Parsing with Neural Networks - The Hybrid Connectionist Parsing Method
The concept of Dynamic Neural Networks (DNN) is a new approach within the Neural Network paradigm, which is based on the dynamic construction of Neural Networks during the processi...
Christel Kemke
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
On the Role of Contextual Weak Independence in Probabilistic Inference
Previous experimental results have clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of utilizing context-specific independence (CSI) in probabilistic inference. However, CSI is a special cas...
Cory J. Butz, Manon J. Sanscartier
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Modeling Organizational Rules in the Multi-agent Systems Engineering Methodology
Recently, two advances in agent-oriented software engineering have had a significant impact: the identification of interaction and coordination as the central focus of multi-agent ...
Scott A. DeLoach
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Using Inter-agent Trust Relationships for Efficient Coalition Formation
We address long-term coalitions that are formed of both customer and vendor agents after evaluating their trust relationships with other agents in the system. We present a coalitio...
Silvia Breban, Julita Vassileva