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ECAI
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Solving Permutation Constraint Satisfaction Problems with Artificial Ants
Abstract. We describe in this paper Ant-P-solver, a generic constraint solver based on the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) metaheuristic. The ACO metaheuristic takes inspiration on t...
Christine Solnon
ECAI
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Qualitative Spatial Reasoning about Line Segments
Abstract. Representing and reasoning about orientation information is an important aspect of qualitative spatial reasoning. We present a novel approach for dealing with intrinsic o...
Reinhard Moratz, Jochen Renz, Diedrich Wolter
ECAI
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Verification Programs for Abduction
Abstract. We call verification the process of finding the actual explanation of a given set of manifestations. We consider an abductive setting, in which explanations are sets of a...
Paolo Liberatore, Francesco M. Donini
ECAI
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Learning Efficiently with Neural Networks: A Theoretical Comparison between Structured and Flat Representations
Abstract. We are interested in the relationship between learning efficiency and representation in the case of supervised neural networks for pattern classification trained by conti...
Marco Gori, Paolo Frasconi, Alessandro Sperduti
ECAI
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Efficient Asymptotic Approximation in Temporal Difference Learning
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Frédérick Garcia, Florent Serre
ECAI
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
The WITAS Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Project
The purpose of this paper is to provide a broad overview of the WITAS Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Project. The WITAS UAV project is an ambitious, long-term basic research project with ...
Patrik Dohrty, Gösta H. Granlund, Krzysztof K...
ECAI
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Languages for Negotiation
This paper considers the use of logic-based languages for multi-agent negotiation. We begin by motivating the use of such languages, and introducing a formal model of logic-based n...
Michael Wooldridge, Simon Parsons
ECAI
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
An Instance-based Approach for Identifying Candidate Ontology Relations within a Multi-Agent System
Discovering related concepts in a multi-agent system among agents with diverse ontologies is difficult using existing knowledge representation languages and approaches. We describ...
Andrew B. Williams, Costas Tsatsoulis
ECAI
2000
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Achieving Coordination through Combining Joint Planning and Joint Learning
There are two major approaches to activity coordination in multiagent systems. First, by endowing the agents with the capability to jointly plan, that is, to jointly generate hypot...
Gerhard Weiss