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AAAI
2010
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Prioritization of Domain-Specific Web Information Extraction
It is often desirable to extract structured information from raw web pages for better information browsing, query answering, and pattern mining. Many such Information Extraction (...
Jian Huang, Cong Yu
AAAI
2010
14 years 1 months ago
A Layered Approach to People Detection in 3D Range Data
People tracking is a key technology for autonomous systems, intelligent cars and social robots operating in populated environments. What makes the task difficult is that the appea...
Luciano Spinello, Kai Oliver Arras, Rudolph Triebe...
AAAI
2010
14 years 1 months ago
Ontologies and Representations of Matter
We carry out a comparative study of the expressive power of different ontologies of matter in terms of the ease with which simple physical knowledge can be represented. In particu...
Ernest Davis
AAAI
2010
14 years 1 months ago
Efficient Belief Propagation for Utility Maximization and Repeated Inference
Many problems require repeated inference on probabilistic graphical models, with different values for evidence variables or other changes. Examples of such problems include utilit...
Aniruddh Nath, Pedro Domingos
AAAI
2010
14 years 1 months ago
The Model-Based Approach to Autonomous Behavior: A Personal View
The selection of the action to do next is one of the central problems faced by autonomous agents. In AI, three approaches have been used to address this problem: the programming-b...
Hector Geffner
AAAI
2010
14 years 1 months ago
A Single-Step Maximum A Posteriori Update for Bearing-Only SLAM
This paper presents a novel recursive maximum a posteriori update for the Kalman formulation of undelayed bearing-only SLAM. The estimation update step is cast as an optimization ...
Stephen Tully, George Kantor, Howie Choset
AAAI
2010
14 years 1 months ago
Coalition Structure Generation based on Distributed Constraint Optimization
Forming effective coalitions is a major research challenge in AI and multi-agent systems (MAS). Coalition Structure Generation (CSG) involves partitioning a set of agents into coa...
Suguru Ueda, Atsushi Iwasaki, Makoto Yokoo, Marius...
AAAI
2010
14 years 1 months ago
To Max or Not to Max: Online Learning for Speeding Up Optimal Planning
It is well known that there cannot be a single "best" heuristic for optimal planning in general. One way of overcoming this is by combining admissible heuristics (e.g. b...
Carmel Domshlak, Erez Karpas, Shaul Markovitch
AAAI
2010
14 years 1 months ago
Computationally Feasible Automated Mechanism Design: General Approach and Case Studies
In many multiagent settings, a decision must be made based on the preferences of multiple agents, and agents may lie about their preferences if this is to their benefit. In mechan...
Mingyu Guo, Vincent Conitzer