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AAAI
2008
14 years 2 months ago
H-DPOP: Using Hard Constraints for Search Space Pruning in DCOP
In distributed constraint optimization problems, dynamic programming methods have been recently proposed (e.g. DPOP). In dynamic programming many valuations are grouped together i...
Akshat Kumar, Adrian Petcu, Boi Faltings
AAAI
2008
14 years 2 months ago
A Utility-Theoretic Approach to Privacy and Personalization
Online services such as web search, news portals, and ecommerce applications face the challenge of providing highquality experiences to a large, heterogeneous user base. Recent ef...
Andreas Krause, Eric Horvitz
AAAI
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Online Learning in Monkeys
We examine online learning in the context of the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task (WCST), a task for which the concept acquisition strategies for human and other primates are well docu...
Xiaojin Zhu, Michael Coen, Shelley Prudom, Ricki C...
AAAI
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Efficient Metadeliberation Auctions
Imagine a resource allocation scenario in which the interested parties can, at a cost, individually research ways of using the resource to be allocated, potentially increasing the...
Ruggiero Cavallo, David C. Parkes
AAAI
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Computational Influence for Training and Entertainment
2) a set of abstract drama manager; 3) a model of player response to drama manager actions; and 4) an author-specified evaluation function. The drama manager's task is to sele...
David L. Roberts
AAAI
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Speech-enabled Card Games for Language Learners
This paper debuts a novel application of speech recognition to foreign language learning. We present a generic framework for developing user-customizable card games designed to ai...
Ian McGraw, Stephanie Seneff
AAAI
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Partially Synchronized DEC-MDPs in Dynamic Mechanism Design
In this paper, we combine for the first time the methods of dynamic mechanism design with techniques from decentralized decision making under uncertainty. Consider a multi-agent s...
Sven Seuken, Ruggiero Cavallo, David C. Parkes
AAAI
2008
14 years 2 months ago
Using a Geometric-Based Sketch Recognition Approach to Sketch Chinese Radicals
Unlike English, where unfamiliar words can be queried for its meaning by typing out its letters, the analogous operation in Chinese is far from trivial due to the nature of its wr...
Paul Taele, Tracy Hammond