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AAAI
2006
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Optimal Scheduling of Contract Algorithms for Anytime Problems
A contract algorithm is an algorithm which is given, as part of the input, a specified amount of allowable computation time. The algorithm must then compute a solution within the ...
Alejandro López-Ortiz, Spyros Angelopoulos,...
AAAI
2006
14 years 7 days ago
Cost-Sensitive Test Strategies
In medical diagnosis doctors must often determine what medical tests (e.g., X-ray, blood tests) should be ordered for a patient to minimize the total cost of medical tests and mis...
Shengli Sheng, Charles X. Ling, Ailing Ni, Shichao...
AAAI
2006
14 years 7 days ago
Fast SAT-based Answer Set Solver
Recent research shows that SAT (propositional satisfiability) techniques can be employed to build efficient systems to compute answer sets for logic programs. ASSAT and CMODELS ar...
Zhijun Lin, Yuanlin Zhang, Hector Hernandez
AAAI
2006
14 years 7 days ago
Ontology Based Semantic Modeling for Chinese Ancient Architectures
Modeling complex architectures is quite challenging. We introduce a novel intelligent system, which can generate semi-style or semi-structure Chinese ancient architectures automat...
Yong Liu, Congfu Xu, Qiong Zhang, Yunhe Pan
AAAI
2006
14 years 7 days ago
Local-Search Techniques for Boolean Combinations of Pseudo-Boolean Constraints
Some search problems are most directly specified by boolean combinations of pseudo-boolean constraints. We study a logic PL(PB) whose formulas are of this form, and design local-s...
Lengning Liu, Miroslaw Truszczynski
AAAI
2006
14 years 7 days ago
Value-Function-Based Transfer for Reinforcement Learning Using Structure Mapping
Transfer learning concerns applying knowledge learned in one task (the source) to improve learning another related task (the target). In this paper, we use structure mapping, a ps...
Yaxin Liu, Peter Stone
AAAI
2006
14 years 7 days ago
Local Negotiation in Cellular Networks: From Theory to Practice
This paper describes a novel negotiation protocol for cellular networks, which intelligently improves the performance of the network. Our proposed reactive mechanism enables the d...
Raz Lin, Daphna Dor-Shifer, Sarit Kraus, David Sar...
AAAI
2006
14 years 7 days ago
Reasoning about Discrete Event Sources
We investigate the modelling of workflows, plans, and other event-generating processes as discrete event sources and reason about the possibility of having event sequences ending ...
Shieu-Hong Lin
AAAI
2006
14 years 7 days ago
TPBOSCourier: A Transportation Procurement System (for the Procurement of Courier Services)
TPBOSCourier is the Transportation Procurement and Bid Optimization System (TPBOS) for Philips Electronics to automate and optimize its procurement of courier services. It was joi...
Andrew Lim, Zhou Xu, Brenda Cheang, Wee-Kit Ho, St...
AAAI
2006
14 years 7 days ago
RankCut - A Domain Independent Forward Pruning Method for Games
Forward pruning, also known as selective search, is now employed in many strong game-playing programs. In this paper, we introduce RankCut
Yew Jin Lim, Wee Sun Lee