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IJCAI
2003
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Challenges in Web Search Engines
This article presents a high-level discussion of some problems that are unique to web search engines. The goal is to raise awareness and stimulate research in these areas.
Monika Rauch Henzinger, Rajeev Motwani, Craig Silv...
IJCAI
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Tractable Symmetry Breaking for CSPs with Interchangeable Values
Symmetry breaking in CSPs has attracted consid­ erable attention in recent years. Various general schemes have been proposed to eliminate sym­ metries during search. In general,...
Pascal Van Hentenryck, Pierre Flener, Justin Pears...
IJCAI
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Corpus-Based Knowledge Representation
A corpus-based knowledge representation system consists of a large collection of disparate knowledge fragments or schemas, and a rich set of statistics computed over the corpus. W...
Alon Y. Halevy, Jayant Madhavan
IJCAI
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Generalizing Plans to New Environments in Relational MDPs
A longstanding goal in planning research is the ability to generalize plans developed for some set of environments to a new but similar environment, with minimal or no replanning....
Carlos Guestrin, Daphne Koller, Chris Gearhart, Ne...
IJCAI
2003
13 years 10 months ago
An Extension of the ICP Algorithm for Modeling Nonrigid Objects with Mobile Robots
The iterative closest point (ICP) algorithm [2] is a popular method for modeling 3D objects from range data. The classical ICP algorithm rests on a rigid surface assumption. Build...
Dirk Hähnel, Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard
IJCAI
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Deep Annotation for Information Integration
The success of the Semantic Web crucially depends on the easy creation, integration and use of semantic data. For this purpose, we consider an integration scenario that defies co...
Siegfried Handschuh, Steffen Staab, Raphael Volz, ...
IJCAI
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Tucking RCC in Cyc's Ontological Bed
Formalisms and axiomatic theories are designed to support reasoning, they are often intended with a preferred interpretation and a targeted ontology. Questions of proper interpret...
Pierre Grenon
IJCAI
2003
13 years 10 months ago
LADDER: A Language to Describe Drawing, Display, and Editing in Sketch Recognition
We have created LADDER, the first language to describe how sketched diagrams in a domain are drawn, displayed, and edited. The difficulty in creating such a language is choosing...
Tracy Hammond, Randall Davis
IJCAI
2003
13 years 10 months ago
A Learning-Based Jam Session System that Imitates a Player's Personality Model
This paper describes a jam session system that enables a human player to interplay with virtual players which can imitate the player personality models of various human players. P...
Masatoshi Hamanaka, Masataka Goto, Hideki Asoh, No...
IJCAI
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Comparing Different Cognitive Paradigms with a Virtual Laboratory
A public virtual laboratory is presented, where animats are controlled by mechanisms from different cognitive paradigms. A brief description of the characteristics of the laborato...
Carlos Gershenson