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IJCAI
1997
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Probabilistic Partial Evaluation: Exploiting Rule Structure in Probabilistic Inference
Bayesian belief networks have grown to prominence because they provide compact representations of many domains, and there are algorithms to exploit this compactness. The next step...
David Poole
IJCAI
1997
14 years 1 months ago
Equational Reasoning using AC Constraints
Unfailing completion is a commonly used technique for equational reasoning. For equational problems with associative and commutative functions, unfailing completion often generate...
David A. Plaisted, Yunshan Zhu
IJCAI
1997
14 years 1 months ago
Adaptive Web Sites: an AI Challenge
The creation of a complex web site is a thorny problem in user interface design. First, di erent visitors have distinct goals. Second, even a single visitor may have di erent need...
Mike Perkowitz, Oren Etzioni
IJCAI
1997
14 years 1 months ago
Situated Actions and Cognition
The paper addresses the concept of cognition starting from the role of a sensor basis in the design of robots. The field of robotics forces the discussion to be pragmatic which is...
Jacques Penders, Peter J. Braspenning
IJCAI
1997
14 years 1 months ago
Robust Periodic Planning and Execution for Autonomous Spacecraft
The New Millennium Remote Agent (NMRA) will be the rst on-board AI system to control an actual spacecraft. The spacecraft domain raises a number of challenges for planning and exe...
Barney Pell, Erann Gat, Ron Keesing, Nicola Muscet...
IJCAI
1997
14 years 1 months ago
Understanding Three Simultaneous Speeches
Understanding three simultaneous speeches is proposed as a challenge problem to foster artificial intelligence, speech and sound understanding or recognition, and computational au...
Hiroshi G. Okuno, Tomohiro Nakatani, Takeshi Kawab...
IJCAI
1997
14 years 1 months ago
Evolvable Hardware for Generalized Neural Networks
This paper describes an evolvable hardware (EHW) system for generalized neural network learning. We have developed an ASIC VLSI chip, which is a building block to configure a scal...
Masahiro Murakawa, Shuji Yoshizawa, Isamu Kajitani...
IJCAI
1997
14 years 1 months ago
Machine Learning Techniques to Make Computers Easier to Use
Identifying user-dependent information that can be automatically collected helps build a user model by which 1) to predict what the user wants to do next and 2) to do relevant pre...
Hiroshi Motoda, Kenichi Yoshida
IJCAI
1997
14 years 1 months ago
Automatic Generation of Heuristics for Scheduling
This paper presents a technique, called GENH, that automatically generates search heuristics for scheduling problems. The impetus for developing this technique is the growing cons...
Robert A. Morris, John L. Bresina, Stuart M. Rodge...
IJCAI
1997
14 years 1 months ago
A Set-Theoretic Approach to Automated Deduction in Graded Modal Logics
In the paper, we consider the problem of supporting automated reasoning in a large class of knowledge representation formalisms, including terminological and epistemic logics, who...
Angelo Montanari, Alberto Policriti