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AGNOSCO - Identification of Infected Nodes with artificial Ant Colonies
cs.AI
If a computer node is infected by a virus, worm or a backdoor, then this is a security risk for the complete network structure where the node is associated. Existing Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) provide a certain amount of support for the identification of such infected nodes but suffer from the need of p...
computer science
35,506
A Fast Algorithm and Datalog Inexpressibility for Temporal Reasoning
cs.AI
We introduce a new tractable temporal constraint language, which strictly contains the Ord-Horn language of Buerkert and Nebel and the class of AND/OR precedence constraints. The algorithm we present for this language decides whether a given set of constraints is consistent in time that is quadratic in the input size. ...
computer science
35,507
Swarm-Based Spatial Sorting
cs.AI
Purpose: To present an algorithm for spatially sorting objects into an annular structure. Design/Methodology/Approach: A swarm-based model that requires only stochastic agent behaviour coupled with a pheromone-inspired "attraction-repulsion" mechanism. Findings: The algorithm consistently generates high-quality annular...
computer science
35,508
Distributed Self Management for Distributed Security Systems
cs.MA
Distributed system as e.g. artificial immune systems, complex adaptive systems, or multi-agent systems are widely used in Computer Science, e.g. for network security, optimisations, or simulations. In these systems, small entities move through the network and perform certain tasks. At some time, the entities move to an...
computer science
35,509
Next Challenges in Bringing Artificial Immune Systems to Production in Network Security
cs.MA
The human immune system protects the human body against various pathogens like e.g. biological viruses and bacteria. Artificial immune systems reuse the architecture, organization, and workflows of the human immune system for various problems in computer science. In the network security, the artificial immune system is...
computer science
35,510
Compressing Binary Decision Diagrams
cs.AI
The paper introduces a new technique for compressing Binary Decision Diagrams in those cases where random access is not required. Using this technique, compression and decompression can be done in linear time in the size of the BDD and compression will in many cases reduce the size of the BDD to 1-2 bits per node. Empi...
computer science
35,511
Modeling Loosely Annotated Images with Imagined Annotations
cs.IR
In this paper, we present an approach to learning latent semantic analysis models from loosely annotated images for automatic image annotation and indexing. The given annotation in training images is loose due to: (1) ambiguous correspondences between visual features and annotated keywords; (2) incomplete lists of anno...
computer science
35,512
The end of Sleeping Beauty's nightmare
cs.AI
The way a rational agent changes her belief in certain propositions/hypotheses in the light of new evidence lies at the heart of Bayesian inference. The basic natural assumption, as summarized in van Fraassen's Reflection Principle ([1984]), would be that in the absence of new evidence the belief should not change. Yet...
computer science
35,513
Temporized Equilibria
cs.GT
This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a crucial error in the submission action.
computer science
35,514
An Intelligent Multi-Agent Recommender System for Human Capacity Building
cs.AI
This paper presents a Multi-Agent approach to the problem of recommending training courses to engineering professionals. The recommendation system is built as a proof of concept and limited to the electrical and mechanical engineering disciplines. Through user modelling and data collection from a survey, collaborative ...
computer science
35,515
Development of Hybrid Intelligent Systems and their Applications from Engineering Systems to Complex Systems
cs.AI
In this study, we introduce general frame of MAny Connected Intelligent Particles Systems (MACIPS). Connections and interconnections between particles get a complex behavior of such merely simple system (system in system).Contribution of natural computing, under information granulation theory, are the main topic of thi...
computer science
35,516
Neural networks in 3D medical scan visualization
cs.AI
For medical volume visualization, one of the most important tasks is to reveal clinically relevant details from the 3D scan (CT, MRI ...), e.g. the coronary arteries, without obscuring them with less significant parts. These volume datasets contain different materials which are difficult to extract and visualize with 1...
computer science
35,517
Use of a Quantum Computer and the Quick Medical Reference To Give an Approximate Diagnosis
cs.AI
The Quick Medical Reference (QMR) is a compendium of statistical knowledge connecting diseases to findings (symptoms). The information in QMR can be represented as a Bayesian network. The inference problem (or, in more medical language, giving a diagnosis) for the QMR is to, given some findings, find the probability of...
computer science
35,518
A new Hedging algorithm and its application to inferring latent random variables
cs.GT
We present a new online learning algorithm for cumulative discounted gain. This learning algorithm does not use exponential weights on the experts. Instead, it uses a weighting scheme that depends on the regret of the master algorithm relative to the experts. In particular, experts whose discounted cumulative gain is s...
computer science
35,519
Modeling belief systems with scale-free networks
cs.AI
Evolution of belief systems has always been in focus of cognitive research. In this paper we delineate a new model describing belief systems as a network of statements considered true. Testing the model a small number of parameters enabled us to reproduce a variety of well-known mechanisms ranging from opinion changes ...
computer science
35,520
A Distributed Process Infrastructure for a Distributed Data Structure
cs.AI
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is continuing to grow outside the bounds of its initial function as a metadata framework and into the domain of general-purpose data modeling. This expansion has been facilitated by the continued increase in the capacity and speed of RDF database repositories known as triple-sto...
computer science
35,521
AceWiki: A Natural and Expressive Semantic Wiki
cs.HC
We present AceWiki, a prototype of a new kind of semantic wiki using the controlled natural language Attempto Controlled English (ACE) for representing its content. ACE is a subset of English with a restricted grammar and a formal semantics. The use of ACE has two important advantages over existing semantic wikis. Firs...
computer science
35,522
AceWiki: Collaborative Ontology Management in Controlled Natural Language
cs.HC
AceWiki is a prototype that shows how a semantic wiki using controlled natural language - Attempto Controlled English (ACE) in our case - can make ontology management easy for everybody. Sentences in ACE can automatically be translated into first-order logic, OWL, or SWRL. AceWiki integrates the OWL reasoner Pellet and...
computer science
35,523
Agent Models of Political Interactions
cs.AI
Looks at state interactions from an agent based AI perspective to see state interactions as an example of emergent intelligent behavior. Exposes basic principles of game theory.
computer science
35,524
Proposition of the Interactive Pareto Iterated Local Search Procedure - Elements and Initial Experiments
cs.AI
The article presents an approach to interactively solve multi-objective optimization problems. While the identification of efficient solutions is supported by computational intelligence techniques on the basis of local search, the search is directed by partial preference information obtained from the decision maker. ...
computer science
35,525
Superposition for Fixed Domains
cs.AI
Superposition is an established decision procedure for a variety of first-order logic theories represented by sets of clauses. A satisfiable theory, saturated by superposition, implicitly defines a minimal term-generated model for the theory. Proving universal properties with respect to a saturated theory directly lead...
computer science
35,526
MOOPPS: An Optimization System for Multi Objective Scheduling
cs.AI
In the current paper, we present an optimization system solving multi objective production scheduling problems (MOOPPS). The identification of Pareto optimal alternatives or at least a close approximation of them is possible by a set of implemented metaheuristics. Necessary control parameters can easily be adjusted by ...
computer science
35,527
ECOLANG - Communications Language for Ecological Simulations Network
cs.AI
This document describes the communication language used in one multiagent system environment for ecological simulations, based on EcoDynamo simulator application linked with several intelligent agents and visualisation applications, and extends the initial definition of the language. The agents actions and perceptions ...
computer science
35,528
Agent-based Ecological Model Calibration - on the Edge of a New Approach
cs.AI
The purpose of this paper is to present a new approach to ecological model calibration -- an agent-based software. This agent works on three stages: 1- It builds a matrix that synthesizes the inter-variable relationships; 2- It analyses the steady-state sensitivity of different variables to different parameters; 3- It ...
computer science
35,529
Randomized Distributed Configuration Management of Wireless Networks: Multi-layer Markov Random Fields and Near-Optimality
cs.DC
Distributed configuration management is imperative for wireless infrastructureless networks where each node adjusts locally its physical and logical configuration through information exchange with neighbors. Two issues remain open. The first is the optimality. The second is the complexity. We study these issues through...
computer science
35,530
Electricity Demand and Energy Consumption Management System
cs.AI
This project describes the electricity demand and energy consumption management system and its application to Southern Peru smelter. It is composed of an hourly demand-forecasting module and of a simulation component for a plant electrical system. The first module was done using dynamic neural networks with backpropaga...
computer science
35,531
Normalized Information Distance
cs.IR
The normalized information distance is a universal distance measure for objects of all kinds. It is based on Kolmogorov complexity and thus uncomputable, but there are ways to utilize it. First, compression algorithms can be used to approximate the Kolmogorov complexity if the objects have a string representation. Seco...
computer science
35,532
Simulated annealing for weighted polygon packing
cs.CG
In this paper we present a new algorithm for a layout optimization problem: this concerns the placement of weighted polygons inside a circular container, the two objectives being to minimize imbalance of mass and to minimize the radius of the container. This problem carries real practical significance in industrial app...
computer science
35,533
A computational model of affects
cs.AI
This article provides a simple logical structure, in which affective concepts (i.e. concepts related to emotions and feelings) can be defined. The set of affects defined is similar to the set of emotions covered in the OCC model (Ortony A., Collins A., and Clore G. L.: The Cognitive Structure of Emotions. Cambridge Uni...
computer science
35,534
Edhibou: a Customizable Interface for Decision Support in a Semantic Portal
cs.AI
The Semantic Web is becoming more and more a reality, as the required technologies have reached an appropriate level of maturity. However, at this stage, it is important to provide tools facilitating the use and deployment of these technologies by end-users. In this paper, we describe EdHibou, an automatically generate...
computer science
35,535
Embedding Non-Ground Logic Programs into Autoepistemic Logic for Knowledge Base Combination
cs.LO
In the context of the Semantic Web, several approaches to the combination of ontologies, given in terms of theories of classical first-order logic and rule bases, have been proposed. They either cast rules into classical logic or limit the interaction between rules and ontologies. Autoepistemic logic (AEL) is an attrac...
computer science
35,536
Mining Complex Hydrobiological Data with Galois Lattices
cs.AI
We have used Galois lattices for mining hydrobiological data. These data are about macrophytes, that are macroscopic plants living in water bodies. These plants are characterized by several biological traits, that own several modalities. Our aim is to cluster the plants according to their common traits and modalities a...
computer science
35,537
Action Theory Evolution
cs.AI
Like any other logical theory, domain descriptions in reasoning about actions may evolve, and thus need revision methods to adequately accommodate new information about the behavior of actions. The present work is about changing action domain descriptions in propositional dynamic logic. Its contribution is threefold: f...
computer science
35,538
Contextual hypotheses and semantics of logic programs
cs.LO
Logic programming has developed as a rich field, built over a logical substratum whose main constituent is a nonclassical form of negation, sometimes coexisting with classical negation. The field has seen the advent of a number of alternative semantics, with Kripke-Kleene semantics, the well-founded semantics, the stab...
computer science
35,539
On finitely recursive programs
cs.AI
Disjunctive finitary programs are a class of logic programs admitting function symbols and hence infinite domains. They have very good computational properties, for example ground queries are decidable while in the general case the stable model semantics is highly undecidable. In this paper we prove that a larger class...
computer science
35,540
Automating Access Control Logics in Simple Type Theory with LEO-II
cs.LO
Garg and Abadi recently proved that prominent access control logics can be translated in a sound and complete way into modal logic S4. We have previously outlined how normal multimodal logics, including monomodal logics K and S4, can be embedded in simple type theory (which is also known as higher-order logic) and we h...
computer science
35,541
Resource Adaptive Agents in Interactive Theorem Proving
cs.LO
We introduce a resource adaptive agent mechanism which supports the user in interactive theorem proving. The mechanism uses a two layered architecture of agent societies to suggest appropriate commands together with possible command argument instantiations. Experiments with this approach show that its effectiveness can...
computer science
35,542
A remark on higher order RUE-resolution with EXTRUE
cs.AI
We show that a prominent counterexample for the completeness of first order RUE-resolution does not apply to the higher order RUE-resolution approach EXTRUE.
computer science
35,543
Geospatial semantics: beyond ontologies, towards an enactive approach
cs.AI
Current approaches to semantics in the geospatial domain are mainly based on ontologies, but ontologies, since continue to build entirely on the symbolic methodology, suffers from the classical problems, e.g. the symbol grounding problem, affecting representational theories. We claim for an enactive approach to semanti...
computer science
35,544
Cut-Simulation and Impredicativity
cs.LO
We investigate cut-elimination and cut-simulation in impredicative (higher-order) logics. We illustrate that adding simple axioms such as Leibniz equations to a calculus for an impredicative logic -- in our case a sequent calculus for classical type theory -- is like adding cut. The phenomenon equally applies to promin...
computer science
35,546
Topological Centrality and Its Applications
cs.IR
Recent development of network structure analysis shows that it plays an important role in characterizing complex system of many branches of sciences. Different from previous network centrality measures, this paper proposes the notion of topological centrality (TC) reflecting the topological positions of nodes and edges...
computer science
35,547
Writing Positive/Negative-Conditional Equations Conveniently
cs.AI
We present a convenient notation for positive/negative-conditional equations. The idea is to merge rules specifying the same function by using case-, if-, match-, and let-expressions. Based on the presented macro-rule-construct, positive/negative-conditional equational specifications can be written on a higher level. A...
computer science
35,548
ASF+ --- eine ASF-aehnliche Spezifikationssprache
cs.AI
Maintaining the main aspects of the algebraic specification language ASF as presented in [Bergstra&al.89] we have extend ASF with the following concepts: While once exported names in ASF must stay visible up to the top the module hierarchy, ASF+ permits a more sophisticated hiding of signature names. The erroneous merg...
computer science
35,549
Progress in Computer-Assisted Inductive Theorem Proving by Human-Orientedness and Descente Infinie?
cs.AI
In this short position paper we briefly review the development history of automated inductive theorem proving and computer-assisted mathematical induction. We think that the current low expectations on progress in this field result from a faulty narrow-scope historical projection. Our main motivation is to explain--on ...
computer science
35,550
A Systematic Approach to Artificial Agents
cs.AI
Agents and agent systems are becoming more and more important in the development of a variety of fields such as ubiquitous computing, ambient intelligence, autonomous computing, intelligent systems and intelligent robotics. The need for improvement of our basic knowledge on agents is very essential. We take a systemati...
computer science
35,551
Syntactic Confluence Criteria for Positive/Negative-Conditional Term Rewriting Systems
cs.AI
We study the combination of the following already known ideas for showing confluence of unconditional or conditional term rewriting systems into practically more useful confluence criteria for conditional systems: Our syntactical separation into constructor and non-constructor symbols, Huet's introduction and Toyama's ...
computer science
35,552
A Self-Contained and Easily Accessible Discussion of the Method of Descente Infinie and Fermat's Only Explicitly Known Proof by Descente Infinie
cs.AI
We present the only proof of Pierre Fermat by descente infinie that is known to exist today. As the text of its Latin original requires active mathematical interpretation, it is more a proof sketch than a proper mathematical proof. We discuss descente infinie from the mathematical, logical, historical, linguistic, and ...
computer science
35,553
lim+, delta+, and Non-Permutability of beta-Steps
cs.AI
Using a human-oriented formal example proof of the (lim+) theorem, i.e. that the sum of limits is the limit of the sum, which is of value for reference on its own, we exhibit a non-permutability of beta-steps and delta+-steps (according to Smullyan's classification), which is not visible with non-liberalized delta-rule...
computer science
35,554
An Algebraic Dexter-Based Hypertext Reference Model
cs.AI
We present the first formal algebraic specification of a hypertext reference model. It is based on the well-known Dexter Hypertext Reference Model and includes modifications with respect to the development of hypertext since the WWW came up. Our hypertext model was developed as a product model with the aim to automatic...
computer science
35,555
Full First-Order Sequent and Tableau Calculi With Preservation of Solutions and the Liberalized delta-Rule but Without Skolemization
cs.AI
We present a combination of raising, explicit variable dependency representation, the liberalized delta-rule, and preservation of solutions for first-order deductive theorem proving. Our main motivation is to provide the foundation for our work on inductive theorem proving, where the preservation of solutions is indisp...
computer science
35,556
Hilbert's epsilon as an Operator of Indefinite Committed Choice
cs.AI
Paul Bernays and David Hilbert carefully avoided overspecification of Hilbert's epsilon-operator and axiomatized only what was relevant for their proof-theoretic investigations. Semantically, this left the epsilon-operator underspecified. In the meanwhile, there have been several suggestions for semantics of the epsilo...
computer science
35,557
Lectures on Jacques Herbrand as a Logician
cs.LO
We give some lectures on the work on formal logic of Jacques Herbrand, and sketch his life and his influence on automated theorem proving. The intended audience ranges from students interested in logic over historians to logicians. Besides the well-known correction of Herbrand's False Lemma by Goedel and Dreben, we als...
computer science
35,558
On Solving Boolean Multilevel Optimization Problems
cs.LO
Many combinatorial optimization problems entail a number of hierarchically dependent optimization problems. An often used solution is to associate a suitably large cost with each individual optimization problem, such that the solution of the resulting aggregated optimization problem solves the original set of hierarchi...
computer science
35,559
Faith in the Algorithm, Part 2: Computational Eudaemonics
cs.CY
Eudaemonics is the study of the nature, causes, and conditions of human well-being. According to the ethical theory of eudaemonia, reaping satisfaction and fulfillment from life is not only a desirable end, but a moral responsibility. However, in modern society, many individuals struggle to meet this responsibility. Co...
computer science
35,560
Safe Reasoning Over Ontologies
cs.AI
As ontologies proliferate and automatic reasoners become more powerful, the problem of protecting sensitive information becomes more serious. In particular, as facts can be inferred from other facts, it becomes increasingly likely that information included in an ontology, while not itself deemed sensitive, may be able ...
computer science
35,561
Design, development and implementation of a tool for construction of declarative functional descriptions of semantic web services based on WSMO methodology
cs.AI
Semantic web services (SWS) are self-contained, self-describing, semantically marked-up software resources that can be published, discovered, composed and executed across the Web in a semi-automatic way. They are a key component of the future Semantic Web, in which networked computer programs become providers and users...
computer science
35,562
An Investigation Report on Auction Mechanism Design
cs.AI
Auctions are markets with strict regulations governing the information available to traders in the market and the possible actions they can take. Since well designed auctions achieve desirable economic outcomes, they have been widely used in solving real-world optimization problems, and in structuring stock or futures ...
computer science
35,563
CP-logic: A Language of Causal Probabilistic Events and Its Relation to Logic Programming
cs.AI
This papers develops a logical language for representing probabilistic causal laws. Our interest in such a language is twofold. First, it can be motivated as a fundamental study of the representation of causal knowledge. Causality has an inherent dynamic aspect, which has been studied at the semantical level by Shafer ...
computer science
35,564
Towards an Intelligent System for Risk Prevention and Management
cs.AI
Making a decision in a changeable and dynamic environment is an arduous task owing to the lack of information, their uncertainties and the unawareness of planners about the future evolution of incidents. The use of a decision support system is an efficient solution of this issue. Such a system can help emergency planne...
computer science
35,565
Agent-Based Decision Support System to Prevent and Manage Risk Situations
cs.AI
The topic of risk prevention and emergency response has become a key social and political concern. One approach to address this challenge is to develop Decision Support Systems (DSS) that can help emergency planners and responders to detect emergencies, as well as to suggest possible course of actions to deal with the ...
computer science
35,566
Variations of the Turing Test in the Age of Internet and Virtual Reality
cs.AI
Inspired by Hofstadter's Coffee-House Conversation (1982) and by the science fiction short story SAM by Schattschneider (1988), we propose and discuss criteria for non-mechanical intelligence. Firstly, we emphasize the practical need for such tests in view of massively multiuser online role-playing games (MMORPGs) and ...
computer science
35,567
Quality Classifiers for Open Source Software Repositories
cs.SE
Open Source Software (OSS) often relies on large repositories, like SourceForge, for initial incubation. The OSS repositories offer a large variety of meta-data providing interesting information about projects and their success. In this paper we propose a data mining approach for training classifiers on the OSS meta-da...
computer science
35,568
Quantified Multimodal Logics in Simple Type Theory
cs.AI
We present a straightforward embedding of quantified multimodal logic in simple type theory and prove its soundness and completeness. Modal operators are replaced by quantification over a type of possible worlds. We present simple experiments, using existing higher-order theorem provers, to demonstrate that the embeddi...
computer science
35,569
Interpretations of the Web of Data
cs.AI
The emerging Web of Data utilizes the web infrastructure to represent and interrelate data. The foundational standards of the Web of Data include the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and the Resource Description Framework (RDF). URIs are used to identify resources and RDF is used to relate resources. While RDF has bee...
computer science
35,570
Profiling of a network behind an infectious disease outbreak
cs.AI
Stochasticity and spatial heterogeneity are of great interest recently in studying the spread of an infectious disease. The presented method solves an inverse problem to discover the effectively decisive topology of a heterogeneous network and reveal the transmission parameters which govern the stochastic spreads over ...
computer science
35,571
Where are the really hard manipulation problems? The phase transition in manipulating the veto rule
cs.AI
Voting is a simple mechanism to aggregate the preferences of agents. Many voting rules have been shown to be NP-hard to manipulate. However, a number of recent theoretical results suggest that this complexity may only be in the worst-case since manipulation is often easy in practice. In this paper, we show that empiric...
computer science
35,572
Circuit Complexity and Decompositions of Global Constraints
cs.AI
We show that tools from circuit complexity can be used to study decompositions of global constraints. In particular, we study decompositions of global constraints into conjunctive normal form with the property that unit propagation on the decomposition enforces the same level of consistency as a specialized propagation...
computer science
35,573
Swap Bribery
cs.GT
In voting theory, bribery is a form of manipulative behavior in which an external actor (the briber) offers to pay the voters to change their votes in order to get her preferred candidate elected. We investigate a model of bribery where the price of each vote depends on the amount of change that the voter is asked to i...
computer science
35,574
Automating Quantified Multimodal Logics in Simple Type Theory -- A Case Study
cs.AI
In a case study we investigate whether off the shelf higher-order theorem provers and model generators can be employed to automate reasoning in and about quantified multimodal logics. In our experiments we exploit the new TPTP infrastructure for classical higher-order logic.
computer science
35,575
Information Modeling for a Dynamic Representation of an Emergency Situation
cs.AI
In this paper we propose an approach to build a decision support system that can help emergency planners and responders to detect and manage emergency situations. The internal mechanism of the system is independent from the treated application. Therefore, we think the system may be used or adapted easily to different c...
computer science
35,576
Computational Understanding and Manipulation of Symmetries
cs.AI
For natural and artificial systems with some symmetry structure, computational understanding and manipulation can be achieved without learning by exploiting the algebraic structure. Here we describe this algebraic coordinatization method and apply it to permutation puzzles. Coordinatization yields a structural understa...
computer science
35,577
Quantifying Rational Belief
cs.AI
Some criticisms that have been raised against the Cox approach to probability theory are addressed. Should we use a single real number to measure a degree of rational belief? Can beliefs be compared? Are the Cox axioms obvious? Are there counterexamples to Cox? Rather than justifying Cox's choice of axioms we follow a ...
computer science
35,578
Examples as Interaction: On Humans Teaching a Computer to Play a Game
cs.AI
This paper reviews an experiment in human-computer interaction, where interaction takes place when humans attempt to teach a computer to play a strategy board game. We show that while individually learned models can be shown to improve the playing performance of the computer, their straightforward composition results i...
computer science
35,579
Industrial-Strength Formally Certified SAT Solving
cs.LO
Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) solvers are now routinely used in the verification of large industrial problems. However, their application in safety-critical domains such as the railways, avionics, and automotive industries requires some form of assurance for the results, as the solvers can (and sometimes do) have bugs. ...
computer science
35,580
A Dynamic Vulnerability Map to Assess the Risk of Road Network Traffic Utilization
cs.AI
Le Havre agglomeration (CODAH) includes 16 establishments classified Seveso with high threshold. In the literature, we construct vulnerability maps to help decision makers assess the risk. Such approaches remain static and do take into account the population displacement in the estimation of the vulnerability. We propo...
computer science
35,581
Different goals in multiscale simulations and how to reach them
cs.AI
In this paper we sum up our works on multiscale programs, mainly simulations. We first start with describing what multiscaling is about, how it helps perceiving signal from a background noise in a ?ow of data for example, for a direct perception by a user or for a further use by another program. We then give three exam...
computer science
35,582
A Semantic Similarity Measure for Expressive Description Logics
cs.AI
A totally semantic measure is presented which is able to calculate a similarity value between concept descriptions and also between concept description and individual or between individuals expressed in an expressive description logic. It is applicable on symbolic descriptions although it uses a numeric approach for th...
computer science
35,583
A Decision-Optimization Approach to Quantum Mechanics and Game Theory
cs.GT
The fundamental laws of quantum world upsets the logical foundation of classic physics. They are completely counter-intuitive with many bizarre behaviors. However, this paper shows that they may make sense from the perspective of a general decision-optimization principle for cooperation. This principle also offers a ge...
computer science
35,584
A Multi-stage Probabilistic Algorithm for Dynamic Path-Planning
cs.AI
Probabilistic sampling methods have become very popular to solve single-shot path planning problems. Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRTs) in particular have been shown to be efficient in solving high dimensional problems. Even though several RRT variants have been proposed for dynamic replanning, these methods only pe...
computer science
35,585
Combining a Probabilistic Sampling Technique and Simple Heuristics to solve the Dynamic Path Planning Problem
cs.AI
Probabilistic sampling methods have become very popular to solve single-shot path planning problems. Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRTs) in particular have been shown to be very efficient in solving high dimensional problems. Even though several RRT variants have been proposed to tackle the dynamic replanning problem...
computer science
35,586
Single-Agent On-line Path Planning in Continuous, Unpredictable and Highly Dynamic Environments
cs.AI
This document is a thesis on the subject of single-agent on-line path planning in continuous,unpredictable and highly dynamic environments. The problem is finding and traversing a collision-free path for a holonomic robot, without kinodynamic restrictions, moving in an environment with several unpredictably moving obst...
computer science
35,587
Design of Intelligent layer for flexible querying in databases
cs.DB
Computer-based information technologies have been extensively used to help many organizations, private companies, and academic and education institutions manage their processes and information systems hereby become their nervous centre. The explosion of massive data sets created by businesses, science and governments n...
computer science
35,588
Consensus Dynamics in a non-deterministic Naming Game with Shared Memory
cs.MA
In the naming game, individuals or agents exchange pairwise local information in order to communicate about objects in their common environment. The goal of the game is to reach a consensus about naming these objects. Originally used to investigate language formation and self-organizing vocabularies, we extend the clas...
computer science
35,589
A Rational Decision Maker with Ordinal Utility under Uncertainty: Optimism and Pessimism
cs.AI
In game theory and artificial intelligence, decision making models often involve maximizing expected utility, which does not respect ordinal invariance. In this paper, the author discusses the possibility of preserving ordinal invariance and still making a rational decision under uncertainty.
computer science
35,590
Believe It or Not: Adding Belief Annotations to Databases
cs.DB
We propose a database model that allows users to annotate data with belief statements. Our motivation comes from scientific database applications where a community of users is working together to assemble, revise, and curate a shared data repository. As the community accumulates knowledge and the database content evolv...
computer science
35,591
Why so? or Why no? Functional Causality for Explaining Query Answers
cs.DB
In this paper, we propose causality as a unified framework to explain query answers and non-answers, thus generalizing and extending several previously proposed approaches of provenance and missing query result explanations. We develop our framework starting from the well-studied definition of actual causes by Halper...
computer science
35,592
Genetic algorithm for robotic telescope scheduling
cs.AI
This work was inspired by author experiences with a telescope scheduling. Author long time goal is to develop and further extend software for an autonomous observatory. The software shall provide users with all the facilities they need to take scientific images of the night sky, cooperate with other autonomous observat...
computer science
35,593
Constraint solvers: An empirical evaluation of design decisions
cs.AI
This paper presents an evaluation of the design decisions made in four state-of-the-art constraint solvers; Choco, ECLiPSe, Gecode, and Minion. To assess the impact of design decisions, instances of the five problem classes n-Queens, Golomb Ruler, Magic Square, Social Golfers, and Balanced Incomplete Block Design are m...
computer science
35,594
Some considerations on how the human brain must be arranged in order to make its replication in a thinking machine possible
cs.AI
For the most of my life, I have earned my living as a computer vision professional busy with image processing tasks and problems. In the computer vision community there is a widespread belief that artificial vision systems faithfully replicate human vision abilities or at least very closely mimic them. It was a great s...
computer science
35,595
Efficiently Discovering Hammock Paths from Induced Similarity Networks
cs.AI
Similarity networks are important abstractions in many information management applications such as recommender systems, corpora analysis, and medical informatics. For instance, by inducing similarity networks between movies rated similarly by users, or between documents containing common terms, and or between clinical ...
computer science
35,596
Redundancy, Deduction Schemes, and Minimum-Size Bases for Association Rules
cs.LO
Association rules are among the most widely employed data analysis methods in the field of Data Mining. An association rule is a form of partial implication between two sets of binary variables. In the most common approach, association rules are parameterized by a lower bound on their confidence, which is the empirical...
computer science
35,597
Belief Propagation for Min-cost Network Flow: Convergence and Correctness
cs.DM
Message passing type algorithms such as the so-called Belief Propagation algorithm have recently gained a lot of attention in the statistics, signal processing and machine learning communities as attractive algorithms for solving a variety of optimization and inference problems. As a decentralized, easy to implement an...
computer science
35,598
The Socceral Force
cs.AI
We have an audacious dream, we would like to develop a simulation and virtual reality system to support the decision making in European football (soccer). In this review, we summarize the efforts that we have made to fulfil this dream until recently. In addition, an introductory version of FerSML (Footballer and Footba...
computer science
35,599
GRASP for the Coalition Structure Formation Problem
cs.AI
The coalition structure formation problem represents an active research area in multi-agent systems. A coalition structure is defined as a partition of the agents involved in a system into disjoint coalitions. The problem of finding the optimal coalition structure is NP-complete. In order to find the optimal solution i...
computer science
35,600
Learning Better Context Characterizations: An Intelligent Information Retrieval Approach
cs.IR
This paper proposes an incremental method that can be used by an intelligent system to learn better descriptions of a thematic context. The method starts with a small number of terms selected from a simple description of the topic under analysis and uses this description as the initial search context. Using these terms...
computer science
35,601
Integrating User's Domain Knowledge with Association Rule Mining
cs.DB
This paper presents a variation of Apriori algorithm that includes the role of domain expert to guide and speed up the overall knowledge discovery task. Usually, the user is interested in finding relationships between certain attributes instead of the whole dataset. Moreover, he can help the mining algorithm to select ...
computer science
35,602
Real-Time Alert Correlation with Type Graphs
cs.AI
The premise of automated alert correlation is to accept that false alerts from a low level intrusion detection system are inevitable and use attack models to explain the output in an understandable way. Several algorithms exist for this purpose which use attack graphs to model the ways in which attacks can be combined....
computer science
35,603
System Dynamics Modelling of the Processes Involving the Maintenance of the Naive T Cell Repertoire
cs.AI
The study of immune system aging, i.e. immunosenescence, is a relatively new research topic. It deals with understanding the processes of immunodegradation that indicate signs of functionality loss possibly leading to death. Even though it is not possible to prevent immunosenescence, there is great benefit in comprehen...
computer science
35,604
Query strategy for sequential ontology debugging
cs.LO
Debugging of ontologies is an important prerequisite for their wide-spread application, especially in areas that rely upon everyday users to create and maintain knowledge bases, as in the case of the Semantic Web. Recent approaches use diagnosis methods to identify causes of inconsistent or incoherent ontologies. Howev...
computer science
35,605
Simple Type Theory as Framework for Combining Logics
cs.LO
Simple type theory is suited as framework for combining classical and non-classical logics. This claim is based on the observation that various prominent logics, including (quantified) multimodal logics and intuitionistic logics, can be elegantly embedded in simple type theory. Furthermore, simple type theory is suffic...
computer science