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AAAI
2008
14 years 2 months ago
A Theory of Expressiveness in Mechanisms
A key trend in (electronic) commerce is a demand for higher levels of expressiveness in the mechanisms that mediate interactions. We develop a theory that ties the expressiveness ...
Michael Benisch, Norman M. Sadeh, Tuomas Sandholm
AAAI
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Anticipatory Perceptual Simulation for Human-Robot Joint Practice: Theory and Application Study
With the aim of fluency and efficiency in human-robot teams, we have developed a cognitive architecture based on the neuro-psychological principles of anticipation and perceptual ...
Guy Hoffman, Cynthia Breazeal
AAAI
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Online Learning with Expert Advice and Finite-Horizon Constraints
In this paper, we study a sequential decision making problem. The objective is to maximize the average reward accumulated over time subject to temporal cost constraints. The novel...
Branislav Kveton, Jia Yuan Yu, Georgios Theocharou...
AAAI
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Automatic Extraction of Data Points and Text Blocks from 2-Dimensional Plots in Digital Documents
Two dimensional plots (2-D) in digital documents on the web are an important source of information that is largely under-utilized. In this paper, we outline how data and text can ...
Saurabh Kataria, William Browuer, Prasenjit Mitra,...
AAAI
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Planning for Human-Robot Interaction Using Time-State Aggregated POMDPs
In order to interact successfully in social situations, a robot must be able to observe others' actions and base its own behavior on its beliefs about their intentions. Many ...
Frank Broz, Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Reid G. Simmons
AAAI
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Lifted First-Order Belief Propagation
Unifying first-order logic and probability is a long-standing goal of AI, and in recent years many representations combining aspects of the two have been proposed. However, infere...
Parag Singla, Pedro Domingos
AAAI
2008
14 years 2 months ago
On-line Planning and Scheduling: An Application to Controlling Modular Printers
This paper summarizes recent work reported at ICAPS on applying artificial intelligence techniques to the control of production printing equipment. Like many other real-world appl...
Minh Binh Do, Wheeler Ruml, Rong Zhou
AAAI
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Game Theory Pragmatics: A Challenge for AI
Game theory has been playing an increasingly visible role in computer science in general and AI in particular, most notably in the area of multiagent systems. I briefly list the a...
Yoav Shoham
AAAI
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Minimizing the Spread of Contamination by Blocking Links in a Network
We address the problem of minimizing the propagation of undesirable things, such as computer viruses or malicious rumors, by blocking a limited number of links in a network, a dua...
Masahiro Kimura, Kazumi Saito, Hiroshi Motoda
AAAI
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Generating Application-Specific Benchmark Models for Complex Systems
Automated generators for synthetic models and data can play a crucial role in designing new algorithms/modelframeworks, given the sparsity of benchmark models for empirical analys...
Jun Wang, Gregory M. Provan