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AAAI
1998
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Learning to Extract Symbolic Knowledge from the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a vast source of information accessible to computers, but understandable only to humans. The goal of the research described here is to automatically create a...
Mark Craven, Dan DiPasquo, Dayne Freitag, Andrew M...
AAAI
2000
14 years 1 months ago
Non-Deterministic Social Laws
The paper generalizes the notion of a social law, the foundation of the theory of artificial social systems developed for coordinating Multi-Agent Systems. In an artificial social...
Michael H. Coen
AAAI
1998
14 years 1 months ago
Design Principles for Intelligent Environments
This paper describes design criteria for creating highly embedded, interactive spaces that we call Intelligent Environments. The motivation for building these systems is to bring ...
Michael H. Coen
AAAI
1998
14 years 1 months ago
The Dynamics of Reinforcement Learning in Cooperative Multiagent Systems
Reinforcement learning can provide a robust and natural means for agents to learn how to coordinate their action choices in multiagent systems. We examine some of the factors that...
Caroline Claus, Craig Boutilier
AAAI
2000
14 years 1 months ago
Exploiting a Thesaurus-Based Semantic Net for Knowledge-Based Search
With the growth of on-line information, the need for better resource location services is growing rapidly. A popular goal is to conduct search in terms of concepts, rather than wo...
Peter Clark, John Thompson, Heather Holmback, Lisb...
AAAI
1998
14 years 1 months ago
Qualitative Simulation as a Temporally-extended Constraint Satisfaction Problem
qYaditionally, constraint satisfaction problems(CSPs) are characterized using a finite set of constraints expressed within a common,shared constraint language. Whenreasoning acros...
Daniel J. Clancy, Benjamin Kuipers
AAAI
2000
14 years 1 months ago
Nurse Rostering at the Hospital Authority of Hong Kong
This paper describes the Rostering Engine (RE) that we have developed for the Hospital Authority (HA), Hong Kong as part of their Staff Rostering System (SRS) using AI constraint-...
Andy Hon Wai Chun, Steve Ho Chuen Chan, Garbbie Pu...
AAAI
2000
14 years 1 months ago
A Self-Organizing Neural Network for Contour Integration through Synchronized Firing
Contour integration in low-level vision is believed to occur based on lateral interaction between neurons with similar orientation tuning. The exact neural mechanisms underlying s...
Yoonsuck Choe, Risto Miikkulainen
AAAI
1998
14 years 1 months ago
On the Computation of Local Interchangeability in Discrete Constraint Satisfaction Problems
In [4], Freuderdefines several types of interchangeability to capture the equivalenceamongthe valuesof a variable in a discrete constraint satisfaction problem(CSP), and provides ...
Berthe Y. Choueiry, Guevara Noubir