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AI
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Translingual Information Retrieval: Learning from Bilingual Corpora
Translingual information retrieval (TLIR) consists of providing a query in one language and searching document collections in one or more di erent languages. This paper introduces...
Yiming Yang, Jaime G. Carbonell, Ralf D. Brown, Ro...
AI
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Recovery of (Non)Monotonic Theories
We present a framework for recovery of nonmonotonic theories, i.e. of theories that are interpreted using a nonmonotonic semantics. Recovery of a nonmonotonic theory is needed if ...
Cees Witteveen, Wiebe van der Hoek
AI
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Reasoning About Actions: Steady Versus Stabilizing State Constraints
In formal approaches to commonsense reasoning about actions. the Ramification Problem denotes the problem of handling indirect effects which implicitly derive from so-called state...
Michael Thielscher
AI
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Model-Based Average Reward Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is the study of programs that improve their performance by receiving rewards and punishments from the environment. Most RL methods optimize the discoun...
Prasad Tadepalli, DoKyeong Ok
AI
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Methods for Task Allocation via Agent Coalition Formation
Task execution in multi-agent environments may require cooperation among agents. Given a set of agents and a set of tasks which they have to satisfy, we consider situations where ...
Onn Shehory, Sarit Kraus
AI
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The Logical Foundations of Goal-Regression Planning in Autonomous Agents
This paper addresses the logical foundations of goal-regression planning in autonomous rational agents. It focuses mainly on three problems. The first is that goals and subgoals w...
John L. Pollock
AI
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Remote Agent: To Boldly Go Where No AI System Has Gone Before
Renewed motives for space exploration have inspired NASA to work toward the goal of establishing a virtual presence in space, through heterogeneous eets of robotic explorers. Info...
Nicola Muscettola, P. Pandurang Nayak, Barney Pell...
AI
1998
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
What Robots Can Do: Robot Programs and Effective Achievability
In this paper, we propose a definition of goal achievability: given a basic action theory describing an initial state of the world and some primitive actions available to a robot...
Fangzhen Lin, Hector J. Levesque