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AAAI
1994
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A Preference-Based Approach to Default Reasoning: Preliminary Report
An approach to nonmonotonic inference, based on preference orderings between possible worlds or states of affairs, is presented. We begin with an extant weak theory of default con...
James P. Delgrande
AAAI
1996
13 years 11 months ago
Knowledge-Based Navigation of Complex Information Spaces
While the explosion of on-line information has brought new opportunities for nding and using electronic data, it has also brought to the forefront the problem of isolating useful ...
Robin D. Burke, Kristian J. Hammond, Benjamin C. Y...
AAAI
1994
13 years 11 months ago
GENET: A Connectionist Architecture for Solving Constraint Satisfaction Problems by Iterative Improvement
New approaches to solving constraint satisfaction problems using iterative improvement techniques have been found to be successful on certain, very large problems such as the mill...
Andrew J. Davenport, Edward P. K. Tsang, Chang J. ...
AAAI
1996
13 years 11 months ago
Estimating the Absolute Position of a Mobile Robot Using Position Probability Grids
In order to re-use existing models of the environment mobile robots must be able to estimate their position and orientation in such models. Most of the existing methods for positi...
Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox, Daniel Hennig, Timo S...
AAAI
1993
13 years 11 months ago
Towards an Understanding of Hill-Climbing Procedures for SAT
Recently several local hill-climbing procedures for propositional satisability have been proposed, which are able to solve large and di cult problems beyond the reach of conventio...
Ian P. Gent, Toby Walsh
AAAI
1994
13 years 11 months ago
Recovering Software Specifications with Inductive Logic Programming
We consider using machine learning techniques to help understand a large software system. In particular, we describe how learning techniques can be used to reconstruct abstract Da...
William W. Cohen
AAAI
1993
13 years 11 months ago
Hybrid Case-Based Reasoning for the Diagnosis of Complex Devices
A novel approach to integrating case-based reasoning with model-based diagnosis is presented. The main idea is to use the model of the device and the results of diagnostic tests t...
Michel P. Féret, Janice I. Glasgow
AAAI
1994
13 years 11 months ago
A Plan-Based Model for Response Generation in Collaborative Task-Oriented Dialogues
This paper presents a plan-based architecture for response generation in collaborative consultation dialogues, with emphasis on cases in which the system (consultant) and user (ex...
Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Sandra Carberry
AAAI
1996
13 years 11 months ago
Trajectory Constraints in Qualitative Simulation
We present a method for specifying temporal constraints on trajectories of dynamical systems and enforcing them during qualitative simulation. This capability can be used to focus...
Giorgio Brajnik, Daniel J. Clancy