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AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
An approach to efficient planning with numerical fluents and multi-criteria plan quality
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...
Alfonso Gerevini, Alessandro Saetti, Ivan Serina
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Understanding the role of noise in stochastic local search: Analysis and experiments
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...
Ole J. Mengshoel
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Fully generated scripted dialogue for embodied agents
: 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...
Kees van Deemter, Brigitte Krenn, Paul Piwek, Mart...
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Alternating-offers bargaining with one-sided uncertain deadlines: an efficient algorithm
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...
Nicola Gatti, Francesco Di Giunta, Stefano Marino
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The measurement of ranks and the laws of iterated contraction
: 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...
Matthias Hild, Wolfgang Spohn
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
What makes propositional abduction tractable
Abduction is a fundamental form of nonmonotonic reasoning that aims at finding explanations for observed manifestations. This process underlies many applications, from car configu...
Gustav Nordh, Bruno Zanuttini
AI
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
When is it better not to look ahead?
In situations where one needs to make a sequence of decisions, it is often believed that looking ahead will help produce better decisions. However, it was shown 30 years ago that ...
Dana S. Nau, Mitja Lustrek, Austin Parker, Ivan Br...
AI
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Speculative plan execution for information gathering
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...
Greg Barish, Craig A. Knoblock