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AI
2002
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Binary vs. non-binary constraints
Fahiem Bacchus, Xinguang Chen, Peter van Beek, Tob...
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A hierarchical approach to computer Hex
Hex is a beautiful game with simple rules and a strategic complexity comparable to that of Chess and Go. The massive game-tree search techniques developed mostly for Chess and suc...
Vadim V. Anshelevich
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A re-weighting strategy for improving margins
We present a simple general scheme for improving margins that is inspired on well known margin theory principles. The scheme is based on a sample re-weighting strategy. The very b...
Fabio Aiolli, Alessandro Sperduti
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
QUANTUM: A Function-Based Question Answering System
Abstract In this paper, we describe our Question Answering (QA) system called QUANTUM. The goal of QUANTUM is to find the answer to a natural language question in a large document ...
Luc Plamondon, Leila Kosseim
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Constructive Approach to Parsing with Neural Networks - The Hybrid Connectionist Parsing Method
The concept of Dynamic Neural Networks (DNN) is a new approach within the Neural Network paradigm, which is based on the dynamic construction of Neural Networks during the processi...
Christel Kemke
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
On the Role of Contextual Weak Independence in Probabilistic Inference
Previous experimental results have clearly demonstrated the effectiveness of utilizing context-specific independence (CSI) in probabilistic inference. However, CSI is a special cas...
Cory J. Butz, Manon J. Sanscartier
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Modeling Organizational Rules in the Multi-agent Systems Engineering Methodology
Recently, two advances in agent-oriented software engineering have had a significant impact: the identification of interaction and coordination as the central focus of multi-agent ...
Scott A. DeLoach
AI
2002
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Using Inter-agent Trust Relationships for Efficient Coalition Formation
We address long-term coalitions that are formed of both customer and vendor agents after evaluating their trust relationships with other agents in the system. We present a coalitio...
Silvia Breban, Julita Vassileva