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AAAI
2006
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Computing Slater Rankings Using Similarities among Candidates
Voting (or rank aggregation) is a general method for aggregating the preferences of multiple agents. One important voting rule is the Slater rule. It selects a ranking of the alte...
Vincent Conitzer
AAAI
2006
14 years 29 days ago
Constraint Symmetry and Solution Symmetry
Symmetry in constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) has been considered in two fundamentally different ways: as an operation preserving the solutions of a CSP instance, or as an o...
David A. Cohen, Peter Jeavons, Christopher Jeffers...
AAAI
2006
14 years 29 days ago
Self-Supervised Acquisition of Vowels in American English
This paper presents a self-supervised framework for perceptual learning based upon correlations in different sensory modalities. We demonstrate this with a system that has learned...
Michael H. Coen
AAAI
2006
14 years 29 days ago
Explicit Passive Analysis in Electronic Catalogs
We consider example-critiquing systems that help people search for their most preferred item in a large catalog. We first analyze how such systems can help users in the framework ...
David Portabella Clotet, Martin Rajman
AAAI
2006
14 years 29 days ago
An Edge Deletion Semantics for Belief Propagation and its Practical Impact on Approximation Quality
We show in this paper that the influential algorithm of iterative belief propagation can be understood in terms of exact inference on a polytree, which results from deleting enoug...
Arthur Choi, Adnan Darwiche
AAAI
2006
14 years 29 days ago
Evaluating Critiquing-based Recommender Agents
We describe a user study evaluating two critiquing-based recommender agents based on three criteria: decision accuracy, decision effort, and user confidence. Results show that use...
Li Chen, Pearl Pu