JAIR
2010
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2010
Model-based diagnostic reasoning often leads to a large number of diagnostic hypotheses. The set of diagnoses can be reduced by taking into account extra observations (passive mon...
JAIR
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
In the usual models of cooperative game theory, the outcome of a coalition formation process is either the grand coalition or a coalition structure that consists of disjoint coali...
JAIR
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
This paper deals with value (and Q-) function approximation in deterministic Markovian decision processes (MDPs). A general statistical framework based on the Kalman filtering pa...
JAIR
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
While traditional research on text clustering has largely focused on grouping documents by topic, it is conceivable that a user may want to cluster documents along other dimension...
JAIR
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Noisy probabilistic relational rules are a promising world model representation for several reasons. They are compact and generalize over world instantiations. They are usually in...
JAIR
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Diagrammatic reasoning (DR) is pervasive in human problem solving as a powerful adjunct to symbolic reasoning based on language-like representations. The research reported in this...
JAIR
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Narrative, and in particular storytelling, is an important part of the human experience. Consequently, computational systems that can reason about narrative can be more effective...
JAIR
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
The paper presents a scheme for computing lower and upper bounds on the posterior marginals in Bayesian networks with discrete variables. Its power lies in its ability to use any ...
JAIR
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
We study a setting where a principal needs to motivate a team of agents whose combination of hidden efforts stochastically determines an outcome. In a companion paper we devise an...
JAIR
2010
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Call control features (e.g., call-divert, voice-mail) are primitive options to which users can subscribe off-line to personalise their service. The configuration of a feature su...