Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Preface
Executive Committee
Program Committee
Table of Contents
Modeling Organizational Rules in the Multi-agent Systems Engineering Methodology
AERO: An Outsourced Approach to Exception Handling in Multi-agent Systems
Introduction
The AERO Model
Implementation
Experimentation
Discussion
Conclusions
References
A Learning Algorithm for Buying and Selling Agents in Electronic Marketplaces
Grid-Based Path-Finding
Introduction
Path-Finding in Practice
Search Algorithms
Tiles, Octiles, and Hexes
Introducing the Tex Grid
Introducing the Vancouver Distance
Empirical Results
Conclusion
References
Transposition Table Driven Work Scheduling in Distributed Game-Tree Search
Introduction
Game-Tree Search
TDSAB
The TDSAB Algorithm
Implementation Details
Experiments
Conclusions
References
Clue as a Testbed for Automated Theorem Proving
A Noise Filtering Method for Inductive Concept Learning
The Task Rehearsal Method of Life-Long Learning: Overcoming Impoverished Data
Recycling the Cycle of Perception: A Polemic
Generalized Arc Consistency with Application to MaxCSP
Two-Literal Logic Programs and Satisfiability Representation of Stable Models: A Comparison
Using Communicative Acts to Plan the Cinematographic Structure of Animations
Mining Incremental Association Rules with Generalized FP-Tree
Introduction
Related Work
Contributions
Outline of the Paper
Mining An Example Database with FP-Tree
The Proposed Incremental Generalized FP-Tree Algorithms
Experimental and Performance Analysis
Conclusions and Future Work
References
Topic Discovery from Text Using Aggregation of Different Clustering Methods
Genetic Algorithms for Continuous Problems
Introduction
Optimizing Functions of Real Parameters
Single Bit Mutation
One Point Crossover
Evaluation of the Methods
Dynamic Sizes and Ranges
Conclusions and Further Work
References
On the Role of Contextual Weak Independence in Probabilistic Inference
A Structural Characterization of DAG-Isomorphic Dependency Models
Introduction
Background
BN Factorization and Equivalent Class of DAGs
Conditional Independencies and Factorization
A Structural Characterization---Hierarchical Conditional Independence
Conclusion
References
Construction of a Non-redundant Cover for Conditional Independencies
Introduction
Definitions
Reduced CIs with the Same Context
Non-redundant Cover for Arbitrary Set of CIs
Conclusion
Proof of Proposition 1
Transferable CI and R-Key
References
Using Inter-agent Trust Relationships for Efficient Coalition Formation
Using Agent Replication to Enhance Reliability and Availability of Multi-agent Systems
Introduction
Multi-agent Systems, Faults and Failures
Agent Replication
Definition of Agent Replication
Key Challenges Raised by Agent Replication
Transparent Replication and Replicate Group Proxies
Implementing Agent Replication with Proxies
A Replication Server
Application
Discussion
Conclusion and Future Work
Software
References
An Efficient Compositional Semantics for Natural-Language Database Queries with Arbitrarily-Nested Quantification and Negation
Introduction
Montague Semantics
Notation
An Implementation of a Set-Theoretic Version of a Small Sub-set of Montague Semantics
A Problem with Negation
A Solution -- Represent ``Negative'' Sets by Enumerating the Elements of Their Complements
The Denotation of other Words and Constructs Commonly Used in Database Queries
Embedding the Modified Semantics in a Syntax-Directed Evaluator with a Speech-Recognition Front-End
Relationship to other Work
References
Text Summarization as Controlled Search
Introduction
Overall Architecture
The Summary Generator
The Generation Controller
Examples
The Training Procedure
Identifying Good and Bad Attributes
Conclusions and Future Work
Acknowledgements
References
QUANTUM: A Function-Based Question Answering System
Generic and Query-Based Text Summarization Using Lexical Cohesion
A Lexical Functional Mapping Algorithm
A Constructive Approach to Parsing with Neural Networks - The Hybrid Connectionist Parsing Method
Extraction of Text Phrases Using Hierarchical Grammar*
An Enhanced Genetic Algorithm Approach to the Channel Assignment Problem in Mobile Cellular Networks
RFCT: An Association-Based Causality Miner
Introduction
The RFCT Approach
Concluding Remarks
References
Retrieval of Short Documents from Discussion Forums
Introduction
Materials and Methods
Results and Discussion
Conclusions
References
Application of Bayesian Networks to Shopping Assistance
Introduction
Cost Model
Performance Model
Usage Model
Computing Overall Value
Remarks
References
Electronic Contract Framework for Contractual Agents
User Models: Customizing E-Commerce Websites to the Context of Use
Supporting the Needs of Mobile Home Care Workers: A Case Study for Saskatoon District Health System
Multi-agent System Architecture for Computer-Based Tutoring Systems
Introduction
System Architecture
Implementation
References
Word Prediction Evaluation Measures with Performance Benchmarking
Relaxed Unification -- Proposal
Introduction
Relaxed Unification
Conclusion
A Learning Algorithm for Buying and Selling Agents in Electronic Marketplaces
cbCPT: Knowledge Engineering Support for CPTs in Bayesian Networks
Query-Less Retrieval of Interesting Postings in a WebForum
Author Index