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AAAI
2000
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Using Prior Knowledge: Problems and Solutions
Encoding knowledge is time consuming and expensive. A possible solution to reduce the cost of developing a new knowledge base (KB) is to reuse existing knowledge. Previous work ad...
Vinay K. Chaudhri, Mark E. Stickel, Jér&oci...
AAAI
1998
13 years 11 months ago
OKBC: A Programmatic Foundation for Knowledge Base Interoperability
The technology for building large knowledge bases (KBs) is yet to witness a breakthrough so that a KB can be constructed by the assembly of prefabricated knowledge components. Kno...
Vinay K. Chaudhri, Adam Farquhar, Richard Fikes, P...
AAAI
2000
13 years 11 months ago
Making Rational Decisions Using Adaptive Utility Elicitation
Rational decision making requires full knowledge of the utility function of the person affected by the decisions. However, in many cases, the task of acquiring such knowledge is n...
Urszula Chajewska, Daphne Koller, Ronald Parr
AAAI
2000
13 years 11 months ago
Iterative Flattening: A Scalable Method for Solving Multi-Capacity Scheduling Problems
One challenge for research in constraint-based scheduling has been to produce scalable solution procedures under fairly general representational assumptions. Quite often, the comp...
Amedeo Cesta, Angelo Oddi, Stephen F. Smith
AAAI
1998
13 years 11 months ago
What can Knowledge Representation do for Semi-Structured Data?
Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Maurizio Len...
AAAI
1998
13 years 11 months ago
The Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot
This paper describes the software architecture of an autonomous tour-guide/tutor robot. This robot was recently deployed in the "Deutsches Museum Bonn," were it guided h...
Wolfram Burgard, Armin B. Cremers, Dieter Fox, Dir...
AAAI
2000
13 years 11 months ago
Answering Queries Using Views over Description Logics Knowledge Bases
Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Maurizio Len...
AAAI
2000
13 years 11 months ago
On the Recognition of Abstract Markov Policies
Hung Hai Bui, Svetha Venkatesh, Geoff A. W. West
AAAI
1998
13 years 11 months ago
Alternative Essences of Intelligence
We present a novel methodology for building humanlike artificially intelligent systems. We take as a model the only existing systems which are universally accepted as intelligent:...
Rodney A. Brooks, Cynthia Breazeal, Robert Irie, C...
AAAI
2000
13 years 11 months ago
Disjunctive Temporal Reasoning in Partially Ordered Models of Time
Certain problems in connection with, for example, cooperating agents and distributed systems require reasoning about time which is measured on incomparable or unsynchronized time ...
Mathias Broxvall, Peter Jonsson