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AAAI
2015
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Nonparametric Scoring Rules
A scoring rule is a device for eliciting and assessing probabilistic forecasts from an agent. When dealing with continuous outcome spaces, and absent any prior insights into the s...
Erik Peter Zawadzki, Sébastien Lahaie
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
A Theoretical Analysis of Optimization by Gaussian Continuation
Optimization via continuation method is a widely used approach for solving nonconvex minimization problems. While this method generally does not provide a global minimum, empirica...
Hossein Mobahi, John W. Fisher III
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
Heuristic Induction of Rate-Based Process Models
This paper presents a novel approach to inductive process modeling, the task of constructing a quantitative account of dynamical behavior from time-series data and background know...
Pat Langley, Adam Arvay
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
On Elementary Loops and Proper Loops for Disjunctive Logic Programs
This paper proposes an alternative definition of elementary loops and extends the notion of proper loops for disjunctive logic programs. Different from normal logic programs, the...
Jianmin Ji, Hai Wan, Peng Xiao
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
Exploiting Determinism to Scale Relational Inference
One key challenge in statistical relational learning (SRL) is scalable inference. Unfortunately, most realworld problems in SRL have expressive models that translate into large gr...
Mohamed Hamza Ibrahim, Christopher J. Pal, Gilles ...
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
Towards a Programmer's Apprentice (Again)
Programmers are loathe to interrupt their workflow to document their design rationale, leading to frequent errors when software is modified—often much later and by different p...
Howard Elliot Shrobe, Boris Katz, Randall Davis
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
Multimedia Data for the Visually Impaired
The Web contains a large amount of information in the form of videos that remains inaccessible to the visually impaired people. We identify a class of videos whose information con...
Niket Tandon, Shekhar Sharma, Tanima Makkad
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
Lower and Upper Bounds for SPARQL Queries over OWL Ontologies
The paper presents an approach for optimizing the evaluation of SPARQL queries over OWL ontologies using SPARQL’s OWL Direct Semantics entailment regime. The approach is based o...
Birte Glimm, Yevgeny Kazakov, Ilianna Kollia, Gior...
AAAI
2015
8 years 8 months ago
Energy Disaggregation via Learning Powerlets and Sparse Coding
In this paper, we consider the problem of energy disaggregation, i.e., decomposing a whole home electricity signal into its component appliances. We propose a new supervised algor...
Ehsan Elhamifar, Shankar Sastry