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AISB
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
The Plaited Structure of Time in Information Technology
Abstract. The aim of this paper is to try to understand the structure of time in information technologies. Starting with historical arguments, it first shows that time is neither l...
Jean-Gabriel Ganascia
AIMSA
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
DynABT: Dynamic Asynchronous Backtracking for Dynamic DisCSPs
Abstract. Constraint Satisfaction has been widely used to model static combinatorial problems. However, many AI problems are dynamic and take place in a distributed environment, i....
Bayo Omomowo, Inés Arana, Hatem Ahriz
AIMSA
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Hybrid Approach to Distributed Constraint Satisfaction
We present a hybrid approach to Distributed Constraint Satisfaction which combines incomplete, fast, penalty-based local search with complete, slower systematic search. Thus, we pr...
David Lee, Inés Arana, Hatem Ahriz, Kit-Yin...
AIMSA
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Interleaved Alldifferent Constraints: CSP vs. SAT Approaches
In this paper, we want to handle multiple interleaved Alldiff constraints from two points of view: a uniform propagation framework with some CSP reduction rules and a SAT encoding ...
Frédéric Lardeux, Eric Monfroy, Fr&e...
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Assessing the Impact of Changing Environments on Classifier Performance
Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis that simple classifiers are more robust to changing environments than complex ones. We propose a strategy for generati...
Rocío Alaíz-Rodríguez, Nathal...
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Some Simplified Forms of Reasoning with Distance-Based Entailments
Distance semantics is a robust way of handling dynamically evolving and possibly contradictory information. In this paper we show that in many cases distance-based entailments can ...
Ofer Arieli, Anna Zamansky
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Mathematically Clinching a Playoff Spot in the NHL and the Effect of Scoring Systems
A problem of intense interest to many sports fans as a season progresses is whether their favorite team has mathematically clinched a playoff spot; i.e., whether there is no possib...
Tyrel Russell, Peter van Beek
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Novel Approach for Social Behavior Analysis of the Blogosphere
The web, as a real mass medium, has become an invaluable data source for Information Extraction and Retrieval systems. Digital authoring is a relatively new style of communication,...
Reza Zafarani, Mohammad-Amin Jashki, Hamidreza Bag...
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Statistical Model for Topic Segmentation and Clustering
This paper presents a statistical model for discovering topical clusters of words in unstructured text. The model uses a hierarchical Bayesian structure and it is also able to iden...
M. Mahdi Shafiei, Evangelos E. Milios