AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Springer
It is well-known that knowledgebases may contain inconsistencies. We provide a framework of measures, based on a first-order four-valued logic, to quantify the inconsistency of a ...
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Springer
Traditional approaches to temporal reasoning assume that time periods and time spans of events can be accurately represented as intervals. Real
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Springer
Dealing with numerical information is practically important in many real-world planning domains where the executability of an action can depend on certain numerical conditions, an...
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Springer
Stochastic local search (SLS) algorithms have recently been proven to be among the best approaches to solving computationally hard problems. SLS algorithms typically have a number...
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Springer
: This paper presents the NECA approach to the generation of dialogues between Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs). This approach consist of the automated constructtion stract sc...
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Springer
In the arena of automated negotiations we focus on the principal negotiation protocol in bilateral settings, i.e. the alternatingoffers protocol. In the scientific community it is...
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Springer
: Ranking theory delivers an account of iterated contraction; each ranking function induces a specific iterated contraction behavior. The paper shows how to reconstruct a ranking f...
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Springer
Abduction is a fundamental form of nonmonotonic reasoning that aims at finding explanations for observed manifestations. This process underlies many applications, from car configu...
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Springer
The execution performance of an information gathering plan can suffer significantly due to remote I/O latencies. A streaming dataflow model of execution addresses the problem to s...
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2008
Springer
In non-binary constraint satisfaction problems, the study of local consistencies that only prune values from domains has so far been largely limited to generalized arc consistency...