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AAAI
2006
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Compilation of Query-Rewriting Problems into Tractable Fragments of Propositional Logic
We consider the problem of rewriting a query efficiently using materialized views. In the context of information integration, this problem has received significant attention in th...
Yolifé Arvelo, Blai Bonet, Maria-Esther Vid...
AAAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
PROBCONS: Probabilistic Consistency-Based Multiple Alignment of Amino Acid Sequences
Obtaining an accurate multiple alignment of protein sequences is a difficult computational problem for which many heuristic techniques sacrifice optimality to achieve reasonable r...
Chuong B. Do, Michael Brudno, Serafim Batzoglou
AAAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
Implementing a Generalized Version of Resolution
We have recently proposed augmenting clauses in a Boolean database with groups of permutations, the augmented clauses then standing for the set of all clauses constructed by actin...
Heidi E. Dixon, Matthew L. Ginsberg, David K. Hofe...
AAAI
2006
14 years 1 months ago
CPM: Context-Aware Power Management in WLANs
In this paper, we present a novel approach for tuning power modes of wireless network interfaces. We use K-means and simple correlation techniques to analyze user's interacti...
Fahd Albinali, Chris Gniady
AAAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
The U.S. National Football League Scheduling Problem
We describe the problem of scheduling the television broadcasts of the U.S. National Football League (NFL). Unlike traditional round-robin tournament scheduling, the NFL problem i...
Bistra N. Dilkina, William S. Havens
AAAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
Conservative Belief Revision
A standard intuition underlying traditional accounts of belief change is the principle of minimal change. In this paper we introduce a novel account of belief change in which the ...
James P. Delgrande, Abhaya C. Nayak, Maurice Pagnu...
AAAI
2006
14 years 1 months ago
SEMAPLAN: Combining Planning with Semantic Matching to Achieve Web Service Composition
Composing existing Web services to deliver new functionality is a difficult problem as it involves resolving semantic, syntactic and structural differences among the interfaces of...
Rama Akkiraju, Biplav Srivastava, Anca-Andreea Iva...
AAAI
2006
14 years 1 months ago
Explaining Qualitative Decision under Uncertainty by Argumentation
Decision making under uncertainty is usually based on the comparative evaluation of different alternatives by means of a decision criterion. In a qualitative setting, pessimistic ...
Leila Amgoud, Henri Prade
AAAI
2004
14 years 1 months ago
A Computational Study of the Kemeny Rule for Preference Aggregation
We consider from a computational perspective the problem of how to aggregate the ranking preferences of a number of alternatives by a number of different voters into a single cons...
Andrew J. Davenport, Jayant Kalagnanam