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AAAI
2012
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A Novel and Scalable Spatio-Temporal Technique for Ocean Eddy Monitoring
Swirls of ocean currents known as ocean eddies are a crucial component of the ocean’s dynamics. In addition to dominating the ocean’s kinetic energy, eddies play a significan...
James H. Faghmous, Yashu Chamber, Shyam Boriah, Fr...
AAAI
2012
12 years 1 days ago
Evaluating Temporal Plans in Incomplete Domains
Recent work on planning in incomplete domains focuses on constructing plans that succeed despite incomplete knowledge of action preconditions and effects. As planning models becom...
Daniel Morwood, Daniel Bryce
AAAI
2012
12 years 1 days ago
Lagrangian Relaxation Techniques for Scalable Spatial Conservation Planning
We address the problem of spatial conservation planning in which the goal is to maximize the expected spread of cascades of an endangered species by strategically purchasing land ...
Akshat Kumar, XiaoJian Wu, Shlomo Zilberstein
AAAI
2012
12 years 1 days ago
Optimal Auctions for Spiteful Bidders
Designing revenue-optimal auctions for various settings is perhaps the most important, yet sometimes most elusive, problem in mechanism design. Spiteful bidders have been intensel...
Pingzhong Tang, Tuomas Sandholm
AAAI
2012
12 years 1 days ago
Competing with Humans at Fantasy Football: Team Formation in Large Partially-Observable Domains
We present the first real-world benchmark for sequentiallyoptimal team formation, working within the framework of a class of online football prediction games known as Fantasy Foo...
Tim Matthews, Sarvapali D. Ramchurn, Georgios Chal...
AAAI
2012
12 years 1 days ago
Fine-Grained Entity Recognition
Entity Recognition (ER) is a key component of relation extraction systems and many other natural-language processing applications. Unfortunately, most ER systems are restricted to...
Xiao Ling, Daniel S. Weld
AAAI
2012
12 years 1 days ago
Ontological Smoothing for Relation Extraction with Minimal Supervision
Relation extraction, the process of converting natural language text into structured knowledge, is increasingly important. Most successful techniques use supervised machine learni...
Congle Zhang, Raphael Hoffmann, Daniel S. Weld
AAAI
2012
12 years 1 days ago
Reformulating Temporal Action Logics in Answer Set Programming
Temporal Action Logics (TAL) is a class of temporal logics for reasoning about actions. We present a reformulation of TAL in Answer Set Programming (ASP), and discuss some synergi...
Joohyung Lee, Ravi Palla
AAAI
2012
12 years 1 days ago
Identifying Bullies with a Computer Game
Current computer involvement in adolescent social networks (youth between the ages of 11 and 17) provides new opportunities to study group dynamics, interactions amongst peers, an...
Juan Fernando Mancilla-Caceres, Wen Pu, Eyal Amir,...
AAAI
2012
12 years 1 days ago
Semi-Supervised Kernel Matching for Domain Adaptation
In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised kernel matching method to address domain adaptation problems where the source distribution substantially differs from the target distri...
Min Xiao, Yuhong Guo