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Towards an Intelligent Database System Founded on the SP Theory of Computing and Cognition
cs.DB
The SP theory of computing and cognition, described in previous publications, is an attractive model for intelligent databases because it provides a simple but versatile format for different kinds of knowledge, it has capabilities in artificial intelligence, and it can also function like established database models whe...
computer science
35,306
Turning CARTwheels: An Alternating Algorithm for Mining Redescriptions
cs.CE
We present an unusual algorithm involving classification trees where two trees are grown in opposite directions so that they are matched at their leaves. This approach finds application in a new data mining task we formulate, called "redescription mining". A redescription is a shift-of-vocabulary, or a different way of...
computer science
35,307
A Situation Calculus-based Approach To Model Ubiquitous Information Services
cs.AI
This paper presents an augmented situation calculus-based approach to model autonomous computing paradigm in ubiquitous information services. To make it practical for commercial development and easier to support autonomous paradigm imposed by ubiquitous information services, we made improvements based on Reiter's stand...
computer science
35,308
Soft Constraint Programming to Analysing Security Protocols
cs.CR
Security protocols stipulate how the remote principals of a computer network should interact in order to obtain specific security goals. The crucial goals of confidentiality and authentication may be achieved in various forms, each of different strength. Using soft (rather than crisp) constraints, we develop a uniform ...
computer science
35,309
Speedup of Logic Programs by Binarization and Partial Deduction
cs.PL
Binary logic programs can be obtained from ordinary logic programs by a binarizing transformation. In most cases, binary programs obtained this way are less efficient than the original programs. (Demoen, 1992) showed an interesting example of a logic program whose computational behaviour was improved when it was transf...
computer science
35,310
Minimal founded semantics for disjunctive logic programs and deductive databases
cs.LO
In this paper, we propose a variant of stable model semantics for disjunctive logic programming and deductive databases. The semantics, called minimal founded, generalizes stable model semantics for normal (i.e. non disjunctive) programs but differs from disjunctive stable model semantics (the extension of stable model...
computer science
35,311
Strong Equivalence Made Easy: Nested Expressions and Weight Constraints
cs.LO
Logic programs P and Q are strongly equivalent if, given any program R, programs P union R and Q union R are equivalent (that is, have the same answer sets). Strong equivalence is convenient for the study of equivalent transformations of logic programs: one can prove that a local change is correct without considering t...
computer science
35,312
What Causes a System to Satisfy a Specification?
cs.LO
Even when a system is proven to be correct with respect to a specification, there is still a question of how complete the specification is, and whether it really covers all the behaviors of the system. Coverage metrics attempt to check which parts of a system are actually relevant for the verification process to succee...
computer science
35,313
Characterizing and Reasoning about Probabilistic and Non-Probabilistic Expectation
cs.AI
Expectation is a central notion in probability theory. The notion of expectation also makes sense for other notions of uncertainty. We introduce a propositional logic for reasoning about expectation, where the semantics depends on the underlying representation of uncertainty. We give sound and complete axiomatizations ...
computer science
35,314
Responsibility and blame: a structural-model approach
cs.AI
Causality is typically treated an all-or-nothing concept; either A is a cause of B or it is not. We extend the definition of causality introduced by Halpern and Pearl [2001] to take into account the degree of responsibility of A for B. For example, if someone wins an election 11--0, then each person who votes for him i...
computer science
35,315
Greedy Algorithms in Datalog
cs.DB
In the design of algorithms, the greedy paradigm provides a powerful tool for solving efficiently classical computational problems, within the framework of procedural languages. However, expressing these algorithms within the declarative framework of logic-based languages has proven a difficult research challenge. In t...
computer science
35,316
Representation Dependence in Probabilistic Inference
cs.AI
Non-deductive reasoning systems are often {\em representation dependent}: representing the same situation in two different ways may cause such a system to return two different answers. Some have viewed this as a significant problem. For example, the principle of maximum entropy has been subjected to much criticism due ...
computer science
35,317
Abduction in Well-Founded Semantics and Generalized Stable Models
cs.LO
Abductive logic programming offers a formalism to declaratively express and solve problems in areas such as diagnosis, planning, belief revision and hypothetical reasoning. Tabled logic programming offers a computational mechanism that provides a level of declarativity superior to that of Prolog, and which has supporte...
computer science
35,318
Polyhierarchical Classifications Induced by Criteria Polyhierarchies, and Taxonomy Algebra
cs.AI
A new approach to the construction of general persistent polyhierarchical classifications is proposed. It is based on implicit description of category polyhierarchy by a generating polyhierarchy of classification criteria. Similarly to existing approaches, the classification categories are defined by logical functions ...
computer science
35,319
Corollaries on the fixpoint completion: studying the stable semantics by means of the Clark completion
cs.AI
The fixpoint completion fix(P) of a normal logic program P is a program transformation such that the stable models of P are exactly the models of the Clark completion of fix(P). This is well-known and was studied by Dung and Kanchanasut (1989). The correspondence, however, goes much further: The Gelfond-Lifschitz opera...
computer science
35,320
The Munich Rent Advisor: A Success for Logic Programming on the Internet
cs.AI
Most cities in Germany regularly publish a booklet called the {\em Mietspiegel}. It basically contains a verbal description of an expert system. It allows the calculation of the estimated fair rent for a flat. By hand, one may need a weekend to do so. With our computerized version, the {\em Munich Rent Advisor}, the us...
computer science
35,321
The Complexity of Modified Instances
cs.CC
In this paper we study the complexity of solving a problem when a solution of a similar instance is known. This problem is relevant whenever instances may change from time to time, and known solutions may not remain valid after the change. We consider two scenarios: in the first one, what is known is only a solution of...
computer science
35,322
Evolving a Stigmergic Self-Organized Data-Mining
cs.AI
Self-organizing complex systems typically are comprised of a large number of frequently similar components or events. Through their process, a pattern at the global-level of a system emerges solely from numerous interactions among the lower-level components of the system. Moreover, the rules specifying interactions amo...
computer science
35,323
Demolishing Searle's Chinese Room
cs.AI
Searle's Chinese Room argument is refuted by showing that he has actually given two different versions of the room, which fail for different reasons. Hence, Searle does not achieve his stated goal of showing ``that a system could have input and output capabilities that duplicated those of a native Chinese speaker and s...
computer science
35,324
A Comparative Study of Arithmetic Constraints on Integer Intervals
cs.PL
We propose here a number of approaches to implement constraint propagation for arithmetic constraints on integer intervals. To this end we introduce integer interval arithmetic. Each approach is explained using appropriate proof rules that reduce the variable domains. We compare these approaches using a set of benchmar...
computer science
35,325
Where Fail-Safe Default Logics Fail
cs.AI
Reiter's original definition of default logic allows for the application of a default that contradicts a previously applied one. We call failure this condition. The possibility of generating failures has been in the past considered as a semantical problem, and variants have been proposed to solve it. We show that it is...
computer science
35,326
XML framework for concept description and knowledge representation
cs.AI
An XML framework for concept description is given, based upon the fact that the tree structure of XML implies the logical structure of concepts as defined by attributional calculus. Especially, the attribute-value representation is implementable in the XML framework. Since the attribute-value representation is an impor...
computer science
35,327
2-Sat Sub-Clauses and the Hypernodal Structure of the 3-Sat Problem
cs.CC
Like simpler graphs, nested (hypernodal) graphs consist of two components: a set of nodes and a set of edges, where each edge connects a pair of nodes. In the hypernodal graph model, however, a node may contain other graphs, so that a node may be contained in a graph that it contains. The inherently recursive structure...
computer science
35,328
Splitting an operator: Algebraic modularity results for logics with fixpoint semantics
cs.AI
It is well known that, under certain conditions, it is possible to split logic programs under stable model semantics, i.e. to divide such a program into a number of different "levels", such that the models of the entire program can be constructed by incrementally constructing models for each level. Similar results exis...
computer science
35,329
Quantum Computers
cs.AI
This research paper gives an overview of quantum computers - description of their operation, differences between quantum and silicon computers, major construction problems of a quantum computer and many other basic aspects. No special scientific knowledge is necessary for the reader.
computer science
35,330
Deductive Algorithmic Knowledge
cs.AI
The framework of algorithmic knowledge assumes that agents use algorithms to compute the facts they explicitly know. In many cases of interest, a deductive system, rather than a particular algorithm, captures the formal reasoning used by the agents to compute what they explicitly know. We introduce a logic for reasonin...
computer science
35,331
A Logic for Reasoning about Evidence
cs.AI
We introduce a logic for reasoning about evidence that essentially views evidence as a function from prior beliefs (before making an observation) to posterior beliefs (after making the observation). We provide a sound and complete axiomatization for the logic, and consider the complexity of the decision problem. Althou...
computer science
35,332
A Framework for Combining Defeasible Argumentation with Labeled Deduction
cs.AI
In the last years, there has been an increasing demand of a variety of logical systems, prompted mostly by applications of logic in AI and other related areas. Labeled Deductive Systems (LDS) were developed as a flexible methodology to formalize such a kind of complex logical systems. Defeasible argumentation has prove...
computer science
35,333
Directional Consistency for Continuous Numerical Constraints
cs.AI
Bounds consistency is usually enforced on continuous constraints by first decomposing them into binary and ternary primitives. This decomposition has long been shown to drastically slow down the computation of solutions. To tackle this, Benhamou et al. have introduced an algorithm that avoids formally decomposing const...
computer science
35,334
A Dynamic Clustering-Based Markov Model for Web Usage Mining
cs.IR
Markov models have been widely utilized for modelling user web navigation behaviour. In this work we propose a dynamic clustering-based method to increase a Markov model's accuracy in representing a collection of user web navigation sessions. The method makes use of the state cloning concept to duplicate states in a wa...
computer science
35,335
Web Services: A Process Algebra Approach
cs.AI
It is now well-admitted that formal methods are helpful for many issues raised in the Web service area. In this paper we present a framework for the design and verification of WSs using process algebras and their tools. We define a two-way mapping between abstract specifications written using these calculi and executab...
computer science
35,336
P=NP
cs.CC
We claim to resolve the P=?NP problem via a formal argument for P=NP.
computer science
35,337
Search Using N-gram Technique Based Statistical Analysis for Knowledge Extraction in Case Based Reasoning Systems
cs.AI
Searching techniques for Case Based Reasoning systems involve extensive methods of elimination. In this paper, we look at a new method of arriving at the right solution by performing a series of transformations upon the data. These involve N-gram based comparison and deduction of the input data with the case data, usin...
computer science
35,338
Multi-agent coordination using nearest neighbor rules: revisiting the Vicsek model
cs.MA
Recently, Jadbabaie, Lin, and Morse (IEEE TAC, 48(6)2003:988-1001) offered a mathematical analysis of the discrete time model of groups of mobile autonomous agents raised by Vicsek et al. in 1995. In their paper, Jadbabaie et al. showed that all agents shall move in the same heading, provided that these agents are peri...
computer science
35,339
On the Complexity of Case-Based Planning
cs.AI
We analyze the computational complexity of problems related to case-based planning: planning when a plan for a similar instance is known, and planning from a library of plans. We prove that planning from a single case has the same complexity than generative planning (i.e., planning "from scratch"); using an extended de...
computer science
35,340
Preferred Answer Sets for Ordered Logic Programs
cs.LO
We extend answer set semantics to deal with inconsistent programs (containing classical negation), by finding a ``best'' answer set. Within the context of inconsistent programs, it is natural to have a partial order on rules, representing a preference for satisfying certain rules, possibly at the cost of violating less...
computer science
35,341
A Sequent Calculus and a Theorem Prover for Standard Conditional Logics
cs.LO
In this paper we present a cut-free sequent calculus, called SeqS, for some standard conditional logics, namely CK, CK+ID, CK+MP and CK+MP+ID. The calculus uses labels and transition formulas and can be used to prove decidability and space complexity bounds for the respective logics. We also present CondLean, a theorem...
computer science
35,342
On Global Warming (Softening Global Constraints)
cs.AI
We describe soft versions of the global cardinality constraint and the regular constraint, with efficient filtering algorithms maintaining domain consistency. For both constraints, the softening is achieved by augmenting the underlying graph. The softened constraints can be used to extend the meta-constraint framework ...
computer science
35,343
A CHR-based Implementation of Known Arc-Consistency
cs.LO
In classical CLP(FD) systems, domains of variables are completely known at the beginning of the constraint propagation process. However, in systems interacting with an external environment, acquiring the whole domains of variables before the beginning of constraint propagation may cause waste of computation time, or ev...
computer science
35,344
Default reasoning over domains and concept hierarchies
cs.AI
W.C. Rounds and G.-Q. Zhang (2001) have proposed to study a form of disjunctive logic programming generalized to algebraic domains. This system allows reasoning with information which is hierarchically structured and forms a (suitable) domain. We extend this framework to include reasoning with default negation, giving ...
computer science
35,345
Outlier Detection by Logic Programming
cs.AI
The development of effective knowledge discovery techniques has become in the recent few years a very active research area due to the important impact it has in several relevant application areas. One interesting task thereof is that of singling out anomalous individuals from a given population, e.g., to detect rare ev...
computer science
35,346
Augmenting ALC(D) (atemporal) roles and (aspatial) concrete domain with temporal roles and a spatial concrete domain -first results
cs.AI
We consider the well-known family ALC(D) of description logics with a concrete domain, and provide first results on a framework obtained by augmenting ALC(D) atemporal roles and aspatial concrete domain with temporal roles and a spatial concrete domain.
computer science
35,347
A TCSP-like decidable constraint language generalising existing cardinal direction relations
cs.AI
We define a quantitative constraint language subsuming two calculi well-known in QSR (Qualitative Spatial Reasoning): Frank's cone-shaped and projection-based calculi of cardinal direction relations. We show how to solve a CSP (Constraint Satisfaction Problem) expressed in the language.
computer science
35,348
An ALC(D)-based combination of temporal constraints and spatial constraints suitable for continuous (spatial) change
cs.AI
We present a family of spatio-temporal theories suitable for continuous spatial change in general, and for continuous motion of spatial scenes in particular. The family is obtained by spatio-temporalising the well-known ALC(D) family of Description Logics (DLs) with a concrete domain D, as follows, where TCSPs denotes ...
computer science
35,349
Analyzing and Improving Performance of a Class of Anomaly-based Intrusion Detectors
cs.CR
Anomaly-based intrusion detection (AID) techniques are useful for detecting novel intrusions into computing resources. One of the most successful AID detectors proposed to date is stide, which is based on analysis of system call sequences. In this paper, we present a detailed formal framework to analyze, understand and...
computer science
35,350
Intelligent search strategies based on adaptive Constraint Handling Rules
cs.AI
The most advanced implementation of adaptive constraint processing with Constraint Handling Rules (CHR) allows the application of intelligent search strategies to solve Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP). This presentation compares an improved version of conflict-directed backjumping and two variants of dynamic bac...
computer science
35,351
Artificial Intelligence and Systems Theory: Applied to Cooperative Robots
cs.RO
This paper describes an approach to the design of a population of cooperative robots based on concepts borrowed from Systems Theory and Artificial Intelligence. The research has been developed under the SocRob project, carried out by the Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the Institute for Systems and Robotics - Institu...
computer science
35,352
Topological Navigation of Simulated Robots using Occupancy Grid
cs.RO
Formerly I presented a metric navigation method in the Webots mobile robot simulator. The navigating Khepera-like robot builds an occupancy grid of the environment and explores the square-shaped room around with a value iteration algorithm. Now I created a topological navigation procedure based on the occupancy grid pr...
computer science
35,353
Bionic Humans Using EAP as Artificial Muscles Reality and Challenges
cs.RO
For many years, the idea of a human with bionic muscles immediately conjures up science fiction images of a TV series superhuman character that was implanted with bionic muscles and portrayed with strength and speed far superior to any normal human. As fantastic as this idea may seem, recent developments in electroacti...
computer science
35,354
A FP-Tree Based Approach for Mining All Strongly Correlated Pairs without Candidate Generation
cs.DB
Given a user-specified minimum correlation threshold and a transaction database, the problem of mining all-strong correlated pairs is to find all item pairs with Pearson's correlation coefficients above the threshold . Despite the use of upper bound based pruning technique in the Taper algorithm [1], when the number of...
computer science
35,355
Ranking Pages by Topology and Popularity within Web Sites
cs.AI
We compare two link analysis ranking methods of web pages in a site. The first, called Site Rank, is an adaptation of PageRank to the granularity of a web site and the second, called Popularity Rank, is based on the frequencies of user clicks on the outlinks in a page that are captured by navigation sessions of users t...
computer science
35,356
Modeling Complex Higher Order Patterns
cs.DB
The goal of this paper is to show that generalizing the notion of frequent patterns can be useful in extending association analysis to more complex higher order patterns. To that end, we describe a general framework for modeling a complex pattern based on evaluating the interestingness of its sub-patterns. A key goal o...
computer science
35,357
A Link Clustering Based Approach for Clustering Categorical Data
cs.DL
Categorical data clustering (CDC) and link clustering (LC) have been considered as separate research and application areas. The main focus of this paper is to investigate the commonalities between these two problems and the uses of these commonalities for the creation of new clustering algorithms for categorical data b...
computer science
35,358
Finite Domain Bounds Consistency Revisited
cs.AI
A widely adopted approach to solving constraint satisfaction problems combines systematic tree search with constraint propagation for pruning the search space. Constraint propagation is performed by propagators implementing a certain notion of consistency. Bounds consistency is the method of choice for building propaga...
computer science
35,359
Removing Propagation Redundant Constraints in Redundant Modeling
cs.LO
A widely adopted approach to solving constraint satisfaction problems combines systematic tree search with various degrees of constraint propagation for pruning the search space. One common technique to improve the execution efficiency is to add redundant constraints, which are constraints logically implied by others i...
computer science
35,360
Neural Networks in Mobile Robot Motion
cs.RO
This paper deals with a path planning and intelligent control of an autonomous robot which should move safely in partially structured environment. This environment may involve any number of obstacles of arbitrary shape and size; some of them are allowed to move. We describe our approach to solving the motion-planning p...
computer science
35,361
Clustering Categorical Data Streams
cs.DB
The data stream model has been defined for new classes of applications involving massive data being generated at a fast pace. Web click stream analysis and detection of network intrusions are two examples. Cluster analysis on data streams becomes more difficult, because the data objects in a data stream must be accesse...
computer science
35,362
ANTIDS: Self-Organized Ant-based Clustering Model for Intrusion Detection System
cs.CR
Security of computers and the networks that connect them is increasingly becoming of great significance. Computer security is defined as the protection of computing systems against threats to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There are two types of intruders: the external intruders who are unauthorized user...
computer science
35,363
Self-Organizing the Abstract: Canvas as a Swarm Habitat for Collective Memory, Perception and Cooperative Distributed Creativity
cs.MM
Past experiences under the designation of "Swarm Paintings" conducted in 2001, not only confirmed the possibility of realizing an artificial art (thus non-human), as introduced into the process the questioning of creative migration, specifically from the computer monitors to the canvas via a robotic harm. In more recen...
computer science
35,364
Self-Organized Stigmergic Document Maps: Environment as a Mechanism for Context Learning
cs.AI
Social insect societies and more specifically ant colonies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organization. As a result of this organization, ant colonies can accomplish complex tasks that in some cases exceed the individual capabilities of...
computer science
35,365
On the Implicit and on the Artificial - Morphogenesis and Emergent Aesthetics in Autonomous Collective Systems
cs.AI
Imagine a "machine" where there is no pre-commitment to any particular representational scheme: the desired behaviour is distributed and roughly specified simultaneously among many parts, but there is minimal specification of the mechanism required to generate that behaviour, i.e. the global behaviour evolves from the ...
computer science
35,366
The MC2 Project [Machines of Collective Conscience]: A possible walk, up to Life-like Complexity and Behaviour, from bottom, basic and simple bio-inspired heuristics - a walk, up into the morphogenesis of information
cs.AI
Synergy (from the Greek word synergos), broadly defined, refers to combined or co-operative effects produced by two or more elements (parts or individuals). The definition is often associated with the holistic conviction quote that "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" (Aristotle, in Metaphysics), or the who...
computer science
35,367
On the existence of stable models of non-stratified logic programs
cs.AI
This paper introduces a fundamental result, which is relevant for Answer Set programming, and planning. For the first time since the definition of the stable model semantics, the class of logic programs for which a stable model exists is given a syntactic characterization. This condition may have a practical importance...
computer science
35,368
A Logic for Non-Monotone Inductive Definitions
cs.AI
Well-known principles of induction include monotone induction and different sorts of non-monotone induction such as inflationary induction, induction over well-founded sets and iterated induction. In this work, we define a logic formalizing induction over well-founded sets and monotone and iterated induction. Just as t...
computer science
35,369
Data Mining for Actionable Knowledge: A Survey
cs.DB
The data mining process consists of a series of steps ranging from data cleaning, data selection and transformation, to pattern evaluation and visualization. One of the central problems in data mining is to make the mined patterns or knowledge actionable. Here, the term actionable refers to the mined patterns suggest c...
computer science
35,370
Semantical Characterizations and Complexity of Equivalences in Answer Set Programming
cs.AI
In recent research on non-monotonic logic programming, repeatedly strong equivalence of logic programs P and Q has been considered, which holds if the programs P union R and Q union R have the same answer sets for any other program R. This property strengthens equivalence of P and Q with respect to answer sets (which i...
computer science
35,371
Graphs and colorings for answer set programming
cs.AI
We investigate the usage of rule dependency graphs and their colorings for characterizing and computing answer sets of logic programs. This approach provides us with insights into the interplay between rules when inducing answer sets. We start with different characterizations of answer sets in terms of totally colored ...
computer science
35,372
Towards a Systematic Account of Different Semantics for Logic Programs
cs.AI
In [Hitzler and Wendt 2002, 2005], a new methodology has been proposed which allows to derive uniform characterizations of different declarative semantics for logic programs with negation. One result from this work is that the well-founded semantics can formally be understood as a stratified version of the Fitting (or ...
computer science
35,373
Probabilistic Algorithmic Knowledge
cs.AI
The framework of algorithmic knowledge assumes that agents use deterministic knowledge algorithms to compute the facts they explicitly know. We extend the framework to allow for randomized knowledge algorithms. We then characterize the information provided by a randomized knowledge algorithm when its answers have some ...
computer science
35,374
Mining Top-k Approximate Frequent Patterns
cs.DB
Frequent pattern (itemset) mining in transactional databases is one of the most well-studied problems in data mining. One obstacle that limits the practical usage of frequent pattern mining is the extremely large number of patterns generated. Such a large size of the output collection makes it difficult for users to un...
computer science
35,375
Les représentations génétiques d'objets : simples analogies ou modèles pertinents ? Le point de vue de l' "évolutique".<br>&ndash;&ndash;&ndash;<br>Genetic representations of objects : simple analogies or efficient models ? The "evolutic" point of view
cs.AI
Depuis une trentaine d'ann\'{e}es, les ing\'{e}nieurs utilisent couramment des analogies avec l'\'{e}volution naturelle pour optimiser des dispositifs techniques. Le plus souvent, ces m\'{e}thodes "g\'{e}n\'{e}tiques" ou "\'{e}volutionnaires" sont consid\'{e}r\'{e}es uniquement du point de vue pratique, comme des m\'{e...
computer science
35,376
An Optimization Model for Outlier Detection in Categorical Data
cs.DB
The task of outlier detection is to find small groups of data objects that are exceptional when compared with rest large amount of data. Detection of such outliers is important for many applications such as fraud detection and customer migration. Most existing methods are designed for numeric data. They will encounter ...
computer science
35,377
Monotonic and Nonmonotonic Preference Revision
cs.DB
We study here preference revision, considering both the monotonic case where the original preferences are preserved and the nonmonotonic case where the new preferences may override the original ones. We use a relational framework in which preferences are represented using binary relations (not necessarily finite). We i...
computer science
35,378
Constraint-Based Qualitative Simulation
cs.AI
We consider qualitative simulation involving a finite set of qualitative relations in presence of complete knowledge about their interrelationship. We show how it can be naturally captured by means of constraints expressed in temporal logic and constraint satisfaction problems. The constraints relate at each stage the ...
computer science
35,379
Knowledge Representation Issues in Semantic Graphs for Relationship Detection
cs.AI
An important task for Homeland Security is the prediction of threat vulnerabilities, such as through the detection of relationships between seemingly disjoint entities. A structure used for this task is a "semantic graph", also known as a "relational data graph" or an "attributed relational graph". These graphs encode ...
computer science
35,380
Cooperative Game Theory within Multi-Agent Systems for Systems Scheduling
cs.AI
Research concerning organization and coordination within multi-agent systems continues to draw from a variety of architectures and methodologies. The work presented in this paper combines techniques from game theory and multi-agent systems to produce self-organizing, polymorphic, lightweight, embedded agents for system...
computer science
35,381
Beyond Hypertree Width: Decomposition Methods Without Decompositions
cs.CC
The general intractability of the constraint satisfaction problem has motivated the study of restrictions on this problem that permit polynomial-time solvability. One major line of work has focused on structural restrictions, which arise from restricting the interaction among constraint scopes. In this paper, we engage...
computer science
35,382
Relational reasoning in the region connection calculus
cs.AI
This paper is mainly concerned with the relation-algebraical aspects of the well-known Region Connection Calculus (RCC). We show that the contact relation algebra (CRA) of certain RCC model is not atomic complete and hence infinite. So in general an extensional composition table for the RCC cannot be obtained by simply...
computer science
35,383
A Unified Subspace Outlier Ensemble Framework for Outlier Detection in High Dimensional Spaces
cs.DB
The task of outlier detection is to find small groups of data objects that are exceptional when compared with rest large amount of data. Detection of such outliers is important for many applications such as fraud detection and customer migration. Most such applications are high dimensional domains in which the data may...
computer science
35,384
Dominance Based Crossover Operator for Evolutionary Multi-objective Algorithms
cs.AI
In spite of the recent quick growth of the Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization (EMO) research field, there has been few trials to adapt the general variation operators to the particular context of the quest for the Pareto-optimal set. The only exceptions are some mating restrictions that take in account the dista...
computer science
35,385
Sparse Covariance Selection via Robust Maximum Likelihood Estimation
cs.CE
We address a problem of covariance selection, where we seek a trade-off between a high likelihood against the number of non-zero elements in the inverse covariance matrix. We solve a maximum likelihood problem with a penalty term given by the sum of absolute values of the elements of the inverse covariance matrix, and ...
computer science
35,386
Preferential and Preferential-discriminative Consequence relations
cs.AI
The present paper investigates consequence relations that are both non-monotonic and paraconsistent. More precisely, we put the focus on preferential consequence relations, i.e. those relations that can be defined by a binary preference relation on states labelled by valuations. We worked with a general notion of valua...
computer science
35,387
Redundancy in Logic II: 2CNF and Horn Propositional Formulae
cs.AI
We report complexity results about redundancy of formulae in 2CNF form. We first consider the problem of checking redundancy and show some algorithms that are slightly better than the trivial one. We then analyze problems related to finding irredundant equivalent subsets (I.E.S.) of a given set. The concept of cyclicit...
computer science
35,388
Enhancing Global SLS-Resolution with Loop Cutting and Tabling Mechanisms
cs.LO
Global SLS-resolution is a well-known procedural semantics for top-down computation of queries under the well-founded model. It inherits from SLDNF-resolution the {\em linearity} property of derivations, which makes it easy and efficient to implement using a simple stack-based memory structure. However, like SLDNF-reso...
computer science
35,389
Nonrepetitive Paths and Cycles in Graphs with Application to Sudoku
cs.DS
We provide a simple linear time transformation from a directed or undirected graph with labeled edges to an unlabeled digraph, such that paths in the input graph in which no two consecutive edges have the same label correspond to paths in the transformed graph and vice versa. Using this transformation, we provide effic...
computer science
35,390
A Fast Greedy Algorithm for Outlier Mining
cs.DB
The task of outlier detection is to find small groups of data objects that are exceptional when compared with rest large amount of data. In [38], the problem of outlier detection in categorical data is defined as an optimization problem and a local-search heuristic based algorithm (LSA) is presented. However, as is the...
computer science
35,391
Conjunctive Query Containment and Answering under Description Logics Constraints
cs.DB
Query containment and query answering are two important computational tasks in databases. While query answering amounts to compute the result of a query over a database, query containment is the problem of checking whether for every database, the result of one query is a subset of the result of another query. In this...
computer science
35,392
Polymorphic Self-* Agents for Stigmergic Fault Mitigation in Large-Scale Real-Time Embedded Systems
cs.AI
Organization and coordination of agents within large-scale, complex, distributed environments is one of the primary challenges in the field of multi-agent systems. A lot of interest has surfaced recently around self-* (self-organizing, self-managing, self-optimizing, self-protecting) agents. This paper presents polymor...
computer science
35,393
A primer on Answer Set Programming
cs.AI
A introduction to the syntax and Semantics of Answer Set Programming intended as an handout to [under]graduate students taking Artificial Intlligence or Logic Programming classes.
computer science
35,394
Transitive Text Mining for Information Extraction and Hypothesis Generation
cs.IR
Transitive text mining - also named Swanson Linking (SL) after its primary and principal researcher - tries to establish meaningful links between literature sets which are virtually disjoint in the sense that each does not mention the main concept of the other. If successful, SL may give rise to the development of new ...
computer science
35,395
Authoring case based training by document data extraction
cs.AI
In this paper, we propose an scalable approach to modeling based upon word processing documents, and we describe the tool Phoenix providing the technical infrastructure. For our training environment d3web.Train, we developed a tool to extract case knowledge from existing documents, usually dismissal records, extendin...
computer science
35,396
Interactive Unawareness Revisited
cs.AI
We analyze a model of interactive unawareness introduced by Heifetz, Meier and Schipper (HMS). We consider two axiomatizations for their model, which capture different notions of validity. These axiomatizations allow us to compare the HMS approach to both the standard (S5) epistemic logic and two other approaches to un...
computer science
35,397
CP-nets and Nash equilibria
cs.GT
We relate here two formalisms that are used for different purposes in reasoning about multi-agent systems. One of them are strategic games that are used to capture the idea that agents interact with each other while pursuing their own interest. The other are CP-nets that were introduced to express qualitative and condi...
computer science
35,398
Sur le statut référentiel des entités nommées
cs.AI
We show in this paper that, on the one hand, named entities can be designated using different denominations and that, on the second hand, names denoting named entities are polysemous. The analysis cannot be limited to reference resolution but should take into account naming strategies, which are mainly based on two lin...
computer science
35,399
Hiérarchisation des règles d'association en fouille de textes
cs.IR
Extraction of association rules is widely used as a data mining method. However, one of the limit of this approach comes from the large number of extracted rules and the difficulty for a human expert to deal with the totality of these rules. We propose to solve this problem by structuring the set of rules into hierarch...
computer science
35,400
Applying Evolutionary Optimisation to Robot Obstacle Avoidance
cs.AI
This paper presents an artificial evolutionbased method for stereo image analysis and its application to real-time obstacle detection and avoidance for a mobile robot. It uses the Parisian approach, which consists here in splitting the representation of the robot's environment into a large number of simple primitives, ...
computer science
35,401
K-ANMI: A Mutual Information Based Clustering Algorithm for Categorical Data
cs.AI
Clustering categorical data is an integral part of data mining and has attracted much attention recently. In this paper, we present k-ANMI, a new efficient algorithm for clustering categorical data. The k-ANMI algorithm works in a way that is similar to the popular k-means algorithm, and the goodness of clustering in e...
computer science
35,402
Towards a unified theory of logic programming semantics: Level mapping characterizations of selector generated models
cs.AI
Currently, the variety of expressive extensions and different semantics created for logic programs with negation is diverse and heterogeneous, and there is a lack of comprehensive comparative studies which map out the multitude of perspectives in a uniform way. Most recently, however, new methodologies have been propos...
computer science
35,403
Integration of Declarative and Constraint Programming
cs.PL
Combining a set of existing constraint solvers into an integrated system of cooperating solvers is a useful and economic principle to solve hybrid constraint problems. In this paper we show that this approach can also be used to integrate different language paradigms into a unified framework. Furthermore, we study the ...
computer science
35,404
Artificial Agents and Speculative Bubbles
cs.GT
Pertaining to Agent-based Computational Economics (ACE), this work presents two models for the rise and downfall of speculative bubbles through an exchange price fixing based on double auction mechanisms. The first model is based on a finite time horizon context, where the expected dividends decrease along time. The se...
computer science