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AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Managing parallel inquiries in agents' two-sided search
In this paper we address the problem of agents engaged in a distributed costly two-sided search for pairwise partnerships in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). While traditional two-sided...
David Sarne, Sarit Kraus
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Automatic scoring of short handwritten essays in reading comprehension tests
Sargur N. Srihari, Jim Collins, Rohini K. Srihari,...
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Sequential Monte Carlo in reachability heuristics for probabilistic planning
The current best conformant probabilistic planners encode the problem as a bounded length CSP or SAT problem. While these approaches can find optimal solutions for given plan leng...
Daniel Bryce, Subbarao Kambhampati, David E. Smith
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Graphically structured value-function compilation
Classical work on eliciting and representing preferences over multi-attribute alternatives has attempted to recognize conditions under which value functions take on particularly s...
Ronen I. Brafman, Carmel Domshlak
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Reachability analysis of uncertain systems using bounded-parameter Markov decision processes
Verification of reachability properties for probabilistic systems is usually based on variants of Markov processes. Current methods assume an exact model of the dynamic behavior a...
Di Wu, Xenofon D. Koutsoukos
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Multi-agent Framework for a Virtual Enterprise of Demand-Responsive Transportation
Abstract. This work presents a multiagent framework design for DemandResponsive Transportation, considering a virtual enterprise domain. The agent architecture obtained provides a ...
Daniel Cabrera, Claudio Cubillos
AI
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Assessing the Impact of Changing Environments on Classifier Performance
Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis that simple classifiers are more robust to changing environments than complex ones. We propose a strategy for generati...
Rocío Alaíz-Rodríguez, Nathal...
AI
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Some Simplified Forms of Reasoning with Distance-Based Entailments
Distance semantics is a robust way of handling dynamically evolving and possibly contradictory information. In this paper we show that in many cases distance-based entailments can ...
Ofer Arieli, Anna Zamansky
AI
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Mathematically Clinching a Playoff Spot in the NHL and the Effect of Scoring Systems
A problem of intense interest to many sports fans as a season progresses is whether their favorite team has mathematically clinched a playoff spot; i.e., whether there is no possib...
Tyrel Russell, Peter van Beek
AI
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Novel Approach for Social Behavior Analysis of the Blogosphere
The web, as a real mass medium, has become an invaluable data source for Information Extraction and Retrieval systems. Digital authoring is a relatively new style of communication,...
Reza Zafarani, Mohammad-Amin Jashki, Hamidreza Bag...