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AI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The Reconstruction of the Interleaved Sessions from a Server Log
Session reconstruction is an essential step in Web usage mining. The quality of reconstructed sessions affects the result of Web usage mining. This paper presents a new approach o...
John Zhong Lei, Ali A. Ghorbani
AI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Intrinsic Representation: Bootstrapping Symbols from Experience
If we are to understand human-level intelligence, we need to understand how meanings can be learned without explicit instruction. I take a step toward that understanding by showing...
Stephen David Larson
AI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Multi-attribute Decision Making in a Complex Multiagent Environment Using Reinforcement Learning with Selective Perception
Abstract. Choosing between multiple alternative tasks is a hard problem for agents evolving in an uncertain real-time multiagent environment. An example of such environment is the ...
Sébastien Paquet, Nicolas Bernier, Brahim C...
AI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Spatio-temporal Reasoning for Vague Regions
Abstract. This paper extends a mereotopological theory of spatiotemporal reasoning to vague ”egg-yolk” regions. In this extension, the egg and its yolk are allowed to move and ...
Zina M. Ibrahim, Ahmed Y. Tawfik
AI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Hybrid Schema for Systematic Local Search
Abstract. We present a new hybrid constraint solving schema which retains some systematicity of constructive search while incorporating the heuristic guidance and lack of commitmen...
William S. Havens, Bistra N. Dilkina
AI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Knowledge Provenance
Knowledge Provenance (KP) is proposed to address the problem of how to determine the validity and origin of web information by introducing standards and methods for modeling and ma...
Mark S. Fox, Jingwei Huang
AI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A Principled Modular Approach to Construct Flexible Conversation Protocols
Building conversation protocols has traditionally been an art more than a science, as their construction is often guided by designers’ intuition rather than by a principled appro...
Roberto A. Flores, Robert C. Kremer
AI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
On Customizing Evolutionary Learning of Agent Behavior
The fitness function of an evolutionary algorithm is one of the few possible spots where application knowledge can be made available to the algorithm. But the representation and u...
Jörg Denzinger, Alvin Schur
AI
2004
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Distributed Data Mining vs. Sampling Techniques: A Comparison
To address the of mining a huge volume of geographically distributed databases, we propose two approaches. The first one is to download only a sample of each database. The second ...
Mohamed Aounallah, Sébastien Quirion, Guy W...