A variety of business relationships in open settings can be understood in terms of the creation and manipulation of commitments among the participants. These include B2C and B2B c...
Any Web user is a potential knowledge contributor, but it remains a challenge to make them devote their time contributing to some purpose. In order to align individual with social...
Bruno Norberto da Silva, Ana Cristina Bicharra Gar...
Much of artificial intelligence research is focused on devising optimal solutions for challenging and well-defined but highly constrained problems. However, as we begin creating...
Modeling and simulation have great potential as technologies capable of aiding analysts in making accurate predictions of future situations to help provide competitive advantage a...
Antonio Sanfilippo, Andrew J. Cowell, Stephen Trat...
Imitation learning, also called learning by watching or programming by demonstration, has emerged as a means of accelerating many reinforcement learning tasks. Previous work has s...
A traditional goal of Artificial Intelligence research has been a system that can read unrestricted natural language texts on a given topic, build a model of that topic and reason...
Ken Barker, Bhalchandra Agashe, Shaw Yi Chaw, Jame...
This paper reconsiders the travelling tournament problem, a complex sport-scheduling application which has attracted significant interest recently. It proposes a population-based...
Knowledge-based recommender technologies support customers and sales representatives in the identification of appropriate products and services. These technologies are especially ...
Alexander Felfernig, Klaus Isak, Kalman Szabo, Pet...
Semantic inference is an important component in many natural language understanding applications. Classical approaches to semantic inference rely on complex logical representation...
Roy Bar-Haim, Ido Dagan, Iddo Greental, Eyal Shnar...
The potentially catastrophic impact of a bioterrorist attack makes developing effective detection methods essential for public health. In the case of anthrax attack, a delay of ho...