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AAAI
2008
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Yoopick: A Combinatorial Sports Prediction Market
We describe Yoopick, a combinatorial sports prediction market that implements a flexible betting language, and in turn facilitates fine-grained probabilistic estimation of outcome...
Sharad Goel, David Pennock, Daniel M. Reeves, Cong...
AAAI
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Learning Large Scale Common Sense Models of Everyday Life
Recent work has shown promise in using large, publicly available, hand-contributed commonsense databases as joint models that can be used to infer human state from day-to-day sens...
William Pentney, Matthai Philipose, Jeff A. Bilmes...
AAAI
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Towards an Integrated Robot with Multiple Cognitive Functions
We present integration mechanisms for combining heterogeneous components in a situated information processing system, illustrated by a cognitive robot able to collaborate with a h...
Nick Hawes, Aaron Sloman, Jeremy Wyatt, Michael Zi...
AAAI
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Efficient Optimization of Information-Theoretic Exploration in SLAM
We present a novel method for information-theoretic exploration, leveraging recent work on mapping and localization. We describe exploration as the constrained optimization proble...
Thomas Kollar, Nicholas Roy
AAAI
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Transferring Naive Bayes Classifiers for Text Classification
Wenyuan Dai, Gui-Rong Xue, Qiang Yang, Yong Yu
AAAI
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Multimodal People Detection and Tracking in Crowded Scenes
This paper presents a novel people detection and tracking method based on a multi-modal sensor fusion approach that utilizes 2D laser range and camera data. The data points in the...
Luciano Spinello, Rudolph Triebel, Roland Siegwart
AAAI
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Computational Complexity of Weighted Threshold Games
Weighted threshold games are coalitional games in which each player has a weight (intuitively corresponding to its voting power), and a coalition is successful if the sum of its w...
Edith Elkind, Leslie Ann Goldberg, Paul W. Goldber...
AAAI
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Reasoning about Attribute Authenticity in a Web Environment
The reliable authentication of user attributes is an important prerequisite for the security of web based applications. Digital certificates are widely used for that purpose. How...
Thomas Wölfl
AAAI
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Non-monotonic Temporal Logics that Facilitate Elaboration Tolerant Revision of Goals
Temporal logics are widely used in specifying goals of agents. We noticed that when directing agents, humans often revise their requirements for the agent, especially as they gath...
Chitta Baral, Jicheng Zhao
AAAI
2007
14 years 1 months ago
Forgetting Actions in Domain Descriptions
Forgetting irrelevant/problematic actions in a domain description can be useful in solving reasoning problems, such as query answering, planning, conflict resolution, prediction,...
Esra Erdem, Paolo Ferraris