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ECAI
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic Term Categorization by Extracting Knowledge from the Web
This paper addresses the problem of categorizing terms or lexical entities into a predefined set of semantic domains exploiting the knowledge available on-line in the Web. The prop...
Leonardo Rigutini, Ernesto Di Iorio, Marco Ernande...
ECAI
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Abductive Logic Programming in the Clinical Management of HIV/AIDS
Abstract. This paper presents a new Abductive Logic Programming (ALP) approach for assisting clinicians in the selection of antiretroviral drugs for patients infected with Human Im...
Oliver Ray, Athos Antoniades, Antonis C. Kakas, Io...
ECAI
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Using Occlusion Calculi to Interpret Digital Images
This paper reports on an investigation using occlusion calculi to interpret digital images. Using a minimal set of digital, region-relation detectors, and assuming a continuous int...
David A. Randell, Mark Witkowski
ECAI
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Logic-Based Framework to Compute Pareto Agreements in One-Shot Bilateral Negotiation
Abstract. We propose a logic-based approach to automated oneshot multi-issue bilateral negotiation. We use logic in two ways: (1) a logic theory to represent relations among issues...
Azzurra Ragone, Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciasc...
ECAI
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Decision with Uncertainties, Feasibilities, and Utilities: Towards a Unified Algebraic Framework
Several formalisms exist to express and solve decision problems. Each is designed to capture different kinds of knowledge: utilities expressing preferences, uncertainties on the en...
Cédric Pralet, Gérard Verfaillie, Th...
ECAI
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Computing Possible and Necessary Winners from Incomplete Partially-Ordered Preferences
Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent ...
ECAI
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Efficient Knowledge Acquisition for Extracting Temporal Relations
Abstract. Machine learning approaches in natural language processing often require a large annotated corpus. We present a complementary approach that utilizes expert knowledge to o...
Son Bao Pham, Achim G. Hoffmann
ECAI
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Goal Revision for a Rational Agent
We propose a general framework to represent changes in the mental state of a rational agent due to the acquisition of new information and/or to the arising of new desires; fundamen...
Célia da Costa Pereira, Andrea Tettamanzi, ...
ECAI
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Auction Mechanisms for Efficient Advertisement Selection on Public Displays
Public electronic displays can be used as an advertising medium when space is a scarce resource, and it is desirable to expose many adverts to as wide an audience as possible. Alth...
Terry R. Payne, Esther David, Nicholas R. Jennings...
ECAI
2006
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Preference Representation with 3-Points Intervals
In this article we are interested in the representation of qualitative preferences with the help of 3-points intervals (a vector of three increasingly ordered points). Preferences ...
Meltem Öztürk, Alexis Tsoukiàs