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AAAI
1998
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TRIPS: An Integrated Intelligent Problem-Solving Assistant
We discuss what constitutes an integrated system in AI, and why AI researchers should be interested in building and studying them. Taking integrated systems to be ones that integr...
George Ferguson, James F. Allen
AAAI
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Toward Design as Collaboration
In design, multiple disparate goals must be addressed simultaneously. It is the thesis of this work that problems in two-dimensional layout design can be solved by collaboration a...
Susan L. Epstein
AAAI
2000
13 years 11 months ago
DATALOG with Constraints - An Answer-Set Programming System
Answer-set programming (ASP) has emerged recently as a viable programming paradigm well attuned to search problems in AI, constraint satisfaction and combinatorics. Propositional ...
Deborah East, Miroslaw Truszczynski
AAAI
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Computing Intersections of Horn Theories for Reasoning with Models
We consider computational issues in combining logical knowledge bases represented by their characteristic models; in particular, we study taking their logical intersection. We pre...
Thomas Eiter, Toshihide Ibaraki, Kazuhisa Makino
AAAI
1998
13 years 11 months ago
The Branching Factor of Regular Search Spaces
Manyproblems,such as the sliding-tile puzzles, generate searchtrees wheredifferent nodeshavedifferent numbersof children, in this case dependingon the position of the blank. Wesho...
Stefan Edelkamp, Richard E. Korf
AAAI
2000
13 years 11 months ago
Performance Comparison of Landmark Recognition Systems for Navigating Mobile Robots
Self-localisation is an essential competence for mobile robot navigation. Due to the fundamental unreliability of dead reckoning, a robot must depend on its perception of external...
Tom Duckett, Ulrich Nehmzow
AAAI
2000
13 years 11 months ago
A Unified Bias-Variance Decomposition for Zero-One and Squared Loss
The bias-variance decomposition is a very useful and widely-used tool for understanding machine-learning algorithms. It was originally developed for squared loss. In recent years,...
Pedro Domingos
AAAI
1998
13 years 11 months ago
A Formal Methodology for Verifying Situated Agents
In this paper, we develop a formal methodology for verifying situated agents. The methodology consists of two elements, a specification language for specifying the agent capabilit...
Phan Minh Dung
AAAI
2000
13 years 11 months ago
A Consistency-Based Model for Belief Change: Preliminary Report
We present a general, consistency-based framework for belief change. Informally, in revising K by , we begin with and incorporate as much of K as consistently possible. Formally, ...
James P. Delgrande, Torsten Schaub
AAAI
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Logical Representation and Computation of Optimal Decisions in a Qualitative Setting
This paper describes a logical machineryfor computing decisions based on an ATMSprocedure, wherethe available knowledgeon the state of the world is describedbya possibilistic prop...
Didier Dubois, Daniel Le Berre, Henri Prade, R&eac...