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IJCAI
2001
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Approximate inference for first-order probabilistic languages
A new, general approach is described for approximate inference in first-order probabilistic languages, using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques in the space of concrete po...
Hanna Pasula, Stuart J. Russell
IJCAI
2001
14 years 1 months ago
Achieving Budget-Balance with Vickrey-Based Payment Schemes in Exchanges
Generalized Vickrey mechanisms have received wide attention in the literature because they are efficient and strategyproof, i.e. truthful bidding is optimal whatever the bids of o...
David C. Parkes, Jayant Kalagnanam, Marta Eso
IJCAI
2001
14 years 1 months ago
Causality and Minimal Change Demystified
The Principle of Minimal Change is prevalent in various guises throughout the development of areas such as reasoning about action, belief change and nonmonotonic reasoning. Recent...
Maurice Pagnucco, Pavlos Peppas
IJCAI
2001
14 years 1 months ago
Keyword Spices: A New Method for Building Domain-Specific Web Search Engines
This paper presents a new method for building domain-specific web search engines. Previous methods eliminate irrelevant documents from the pages accessed using heuristics based on...
Satoshi Oyama, Takashi Kokubo, Toru Ishida, Teruhi...
IJCAI
2001
14 years 1 months ago
Reviving Partial Order Planning
This paper challenges the prevailing pessimism about the scalability of partial order planning (POP) algorithms by presenting several novel heuristic control techniques that make ...
XuanLong Nguyen, Subbarao Kambhampati
IJCAI
2001
14 years 1 months ago
Link Analysis, Eigenvectors and Stability
The HITS and the PageRank algorithms are eigenvector methods for identifying "authoritative" or "influential" articles, given hyperlink or citation information...
Andrew Y. Ng, Alice X. Zheng, Michael I. Jordan
IJCAI
2001
14 years 1 months ago
Total-Order Planning with Partially Ordered Subtasks
One of the more controversial recent planning algorithms is the SHOP algorithm, an HTN planning algorithm that plans for tasks in the same order that they are to be executed. SHOP...
Dana S. Nau, Héctor Muñoz-Avila, Yue...
IJCAI
2001
14 years 1 months ago
Real-Time Auditory and Visual Multiple-Object Tracking for Humanoids
This paper presents a real-time auditory and visual tracking of multiple objects for humanoid under real-world environments. Real-time processing is crucial for sensorimotor tasks...
Kazuhiro Nakadai, Ken-ichi Hidai, Hiroshi Mizoguch...
IJCAI
2001
14 years 1 months ago
Mining Soft-Matching Rules from Textual Data
Text mining concerns the discovery of knowledge from unstructured textual data. One important task is the discovery of rules that relate specific words and phrases. Although exist...
Un Yong Nahm, Raymond J. Mooney
IJCAI
2001
14 years 1 months ago
SiN: Integrating Case-based Reasoning with Task Decomposition
This paper describes SiN, a novel case-based planning algorithm that combines conversational case retrieval with generative planning. SiN is provably correct, and can generate pla...
Héctor Muñoz-Avila, David W. Aha, Da...