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35,906
Towards Multistage Design of Modular Systems
cs.AI
The paper describes multistage design of composite (modular) systems (i.e., design of a system trajectory). This design process consists of the following: (i) definition of a set of time/logical points; (ii) modular design of the system for each time/logical point (e.g., on the basis of combinatorial synthesis as hiera...
computer science
35,907
Penetration Testing == POMDP Solving?
cs.AI
Penetration Testing is a methodology for assessing network security, by generating and executing possible attacks. Doing so automatically allows for regular and systematic testing without a prohibitive amount of human labor. A key question then is how to generate the attacks. This is naturally formulated as a planning ...
computer science
35,908
A Multi-Engine Approach to Answer Set Programming
cs.AI
Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a truly-declarative programming paradigm proposed in the area of non-monotonic reasoning and logic programming, that has been recently employed in many applications. The development of efficient ASP systems is, thus, crucial. Having in mind the task of improving the solving methods for A...
computer science
35,909
Safeguarding E-Commerce against Advisor Cheating Behaviors: Towards More Robust Trust Models for Handling Unfair Ratings
cs.SI
In electronic marketplaces, after each transaction buyers will rate the products provided by the sellers. To decide the most trustworthy sellers to transact with, buyers rely on trust models to leverage these ratings to evaluate the reputation of sellers. Although the high effectiveness of different trust models for ha...
computer science
35,910
Breaking Symmetry with Different Orderings
cs.AI
We can break symmetry by eliminating solutions within each symmetry class. For instance, the Lex-Leader method eliminates all but the smallest solution in the lexicographical ordering. Unfortunately, the Lex-Leader method is intractable in general. We prove that, under modest assumptions, we cannot reduce the worst cas...
computer science
35,912
Affect Control Processes: Intelligent Affective Interaction using a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process
cs.HC
This paper describes a novel method for building affectively intelligent human-interactive agents. The method is based on a key sociological insight that has been developed and extensively verified over the last twenty years, but has yet to make an impact in artificial intelligence. The insight is that resource bounded...
computer science
35,913
Distributed Heuristic Forward Search for Multi-Agent Systems
cs.AI
This paper describes a number of distributed forward search algorithms for solving multi-agent planning problems. We introduce a distributed formulation of non-optimal forward search, as well as an optimal version, MAD-A*. Our algorithms exploit the structure of multi-agent problems to not only distribute the work effi...
computer science
35,914
Activity Modeling in Smart Home using High Utility Pattern Mining over Data Streams
cs.AI
Smart home technology is a better choice for the people to care about security, comfort and power saving as well. It is required to develop technologies that recognize the Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) of the residents at home and detect the abnormal behavior in the individual's patterns. Data mining techniques suc...
computer science
35,915
Measurements of collective machine intelligence
cs.AI
Independent from the still ongoing research in measuring individual intelligence, we anticipate and provide a framework for measuring collective intelligence. Collective intelligence refers to the idea that several individuals can collaborate in order to achieve high levels of intelligence. We present thus some ideas o...
computer science
35,916
A Heuristic Routing Mechanism Using a New Addressing Scheme
cs.NI
Current methods of routing are based on network information in the form of routing tables, in which routing protocols determine how to update the tables according to the network changes. Despite the variability of data in routing tables, node addresses are constant. In this paper, we first introduce the new concept of ...
computer science
35,917
Geometric Analogue of Holographic Reduced Representation
cs.AI
Holographic reduced representations (HRR) are based on superpositions of convolution-bound $n$-tuples, but the $n$-tuples cannot be regarded as vectors since the formalism is basis dependent. This is why HRR cannot be associated with geometric structures. Replacing convolutions by geometric products one arrives at redu...
computer science
35,918
Visualization Optimization : Application to the RoboCup Rescue Domain
cs.GR
In this paper we demonstrate the use of intelligent optimization methodologies on the visualization optimization of virtual / simulated environments. The problem of automatic selection of an optimized set of views, which better describes an on-going simulation over a virtual environment is addressed in the context of t...
computer science
35,919
On combinations of local theory extensions
cs.LO
In this paper we study possibilities of efficient reasoning in combinations of theories over possibly non-disjoint signatures. We first present a class of theory extensions (called local extensions) in which hierarchical reasoning is possible, and give several examples from computer science and mathematics in which suc...
computer science
35,920
A comparison of the notions of optimality in soft constraints and graphical games
cs.AI
The notion of optimality naturally arises in many areas of applied mathematics and computer science concerned with decision making. Here we consider this notion in the context of two formalisms used for different purposes and in different research areas: graphical games and soft constraints. We relate the notion of opt...
computer science
35,921
Combining Semantic Wikis and Controlled Natural Language
cs.HC
We demonstrate AceWiki that is a semantic wiki using the controlled natural language Attempto Controlled English (ACE). The goal is to enable easy creation and modification of ontologies through the web. Texts in ACE can automatically be translated into first-order logic and other languages, for example OWL. Previous e...
computer science
35,922
Social Learning Methods in Board Games
cs.AI
This paper discusses the effects of social learning in training of game playing agents. The training of agents in a social context instead of a self-play environment is investigated. Agents that use the reinforcement learning algorithms are trained in social settings. This mimics the way in which players of board games...
computer science
35,923
On Granular Knowledge Structures
cs.AI
Knowledge plays a central role in human and artificial intelligence. One of the key characteristics of knowledge is its structured organization. Knowledge can be and should be presented in multiple levels and multiple views to meet people's needs in different levels of granularities and from different perspectives. In ...
computer science
35,924
On the Conditional Independence Implication Problem: A Lattice-Theoretic Approach
cs.AI
A lattice-theoretic framework is introduced that permits the study of the conditional independence (CI) implication problem relative to the class of discrete probability measures. Semi-lattices are associated with CI statements and a finite, sound and complete inference system relative to semi-lattice inclusions is pre...
computer science
35,925
On the Internal Topological Structure of Plane Regions
cs.AI
The study of topological information of spatial objects has for a long time been a focus of research in disciplines like computational geometry, spatial reasoning, cognitive science, and robotics. While the majority of these researches emphasised the topological relations between spatial objects, this work studies the ...
computer science
35,926
A theory of intelligence: networked problem solving in animal societies
cs.AI
A society's single emergent, increasing intelligence arises partly from the thermodynamic advantages of networking the innate intelligence of different individuals, and partly from the accumulation of solved problems. Economic growth is proportional to the square of the network entropy of a society's population times t...
computer science
35,927
Resource Matchmaking Algorithm using Dynamic Rough Set in Grid Environment
cs.DC
Grid environment is a service oriented infrastructure in which many heterogeneous resources participate to provide the high performance computation. One of the bug issues in the grid environment is the vagueness and uncertainty between advertised resources and requested resources. Furthermore, in an environment such as...
computer science
35,928
Interactive Data Integration through Smart Copy & Paste
cs.DB
In many scenarios, such as emergency response or ad hoc collaboration, it is critical to reduce the overhead in integrating data. Ideally, one could perform the entire process interactively under one unified interface: defining extractors and wrappers for sources, creating a mediated schema, and adding schema mappings ...
computer science
35,929
Greedy Gossip with Eavesdropping
cs.DC
This paper presents greedy gossip with eavesdropping (GGE), a novel randomized gossip algorithm for distributed computation of the average consensus problem. In gossip algorithms, nodes in the network randomly communicate with their neighbors and exchange information iteratively. The algorithms are simple and decentral...
computer science
35,930
Logic with Verbs
cs.AI
The aim of this paper is to introduce a logic in which nouns and verbs are handled together as a deductive reasoning, and also to observe the relationship between nouns and verbs as well as between logics and conversations.
computer science
35,931
Manipulation and gender neutrality in stable marriage procedures
cs.AI
The stable marriage problem is a well-known problem of matching men to women so that no man and woman who are not married to each other both prefer each other. Such a problem has a wide variety of practical applications ranging from matching resident doctors to hospitals to matching students to schools. A well-known al...
computer science
35,932
Breaking Generator Symmetry
cs.AI
Dealing with large numbers of symmetries is often problematic. One solution is to focus on just symmetries that generate the symmetry group. Whilst there are special cases where breaking just the symmetries in a generating set is complete, there are also cases where no irredundant generating set eliminates all symmetry...
computer science
35,933
K-Implementation
cs.GT
This paper discusses an interested party who wishes to influence the behavior of agents in a game (multi-agent interaction), which is not under his control. The interested party cannot design a new game, cannot enforce agents' behavior, cannot enforce payments by the agents, and cannot prohibit strategies available to ...
computer science
35,934
A Personalized System for Conversational Recommendations
cs.IR
Searching for and making decisions about information is becoming increasingly difficult as the amount of information and number of choices increases. Recommendation systems help users find items of interest of a particular type, such as movies or restaurants, but are still somewhat awkward to use. Our solution is to ta...
computer science
35,935
Can We Learn to Beat the Best Stock
cs.AI
A novel algorithm for actively trading stocks is presented. While traditional expert advice and "universal" algorithms (as well as standard technical trading heuristics) attempt to predict winners or trends, our approach relies on predictable statistical relations between all pairs of stocks in the market. Our empirica...
computer science
35,936
A case of combination of evidence in the Dempster-Shafer theory inconsistent with evaluation of probabilities
math.PR
The Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence accumulation is one of the main tools for combining data obtained from multiple sources. In this paper a special case of combination of two bodies of evidence with non-zero conflict coefficient is considered. It is shown that application of the Dempster-Shafer rule of combination ...
computer science
35,937
Towards a Reliable Framework of Uncertainty-Based Group Decision Support System
cs.SY
This study proposes a framework of Uncertainty-based Group Decision Support System (UGDSS). It provides a platform for multiple criteria decision analysis in six aspects including (1) decision environment, (2) decision problem, (3) decision group, (4) decision conflict, (5) decision schemes and (6) group negotiation. B...
computer science
35,938
Current State and Challenges of Automatic Planning in Web Service Composition
cs.DC
This paper gives a survey on the current state of Web Service Compositions and the difficulties and solutions to automated Web Service Compositions. This first gives a definition of Web Service Composition and the motivation and goal of it. It then explores into why we need automated Web Service Compositions and formal...
computer science
35,939
A Survey on how Description Logic Ontologies Benefit from Formal Concept Analysis
cs.LO
Although the notion of a concept as a collection of objects sharing certain properties, and the notion of a conceptual hierarchy are fundamental to both Formal Concept Analysis and Description Logics, the ways concepts are described and obtained differ significantly between these two research areas. Despite these diffe...
computer science
35,940
From decision to action : intentionality, a guide for the specification of intelligent agents' behaviour
cs.AI
This article introduces a reflexion about behavioural specification for interactive and participative agent-based simulation in virtual reality. Within this context, it is neces sary to reach a high level of expressivness in order to enforce interactions between the designer and the behavioural model during the in-line...
computer science
35,941
Evolutionary Quantum Logic Synthesis of Boolean Reversible Logic Circuits Embedded in Ternary Quantum Space using Heuristics
cs.AI
It has been experimentally proven that realizing universal quantum gates using higher-radices logic is practically and technologically possible. We developed a Parallel Genetic Algorithm that synthesizes Boolean reversible circuits realized with a variety of quantum gates on qudits with various radices. In order to all...
computer science
35,942
Using Variational Inference and MapReduce to Scale Topic Modeling
cs.AI
Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a popular topic modeling technique for exploring document collections. Because of the increasing prevalence of large datasets, there is a need to improve the scalability of inference of LDA. In this paper, we propose a technique called ~\emph{MapReduce LDA} (Mr. LDA) to accommodate ...
computer science
35,943
On the Undecidability of Fuzzy Description Logics with GCIs with Lukasiewicz t-norm
cs.LO
Recently there have been some unexpected results concerning Fuzzy Description Logics (FDLs) with General Concept Inclusions (GCIs). They show that, unlike the classical case, the DL ALC with GCIs does not have the finite model property under Lukasiewicz Logic or Product Logic and, specifically, knowledge base satisfiab...
computer science
35,944
Consistent Query Answering via ASP from Different Perspectives: Theory and Practice
cs.DB
A data integration system provides transparent access to different data sources by suitably combining their data, and providing the user with a unified view of them, called global schema. However, source data are generally not under the control of the data integration process, thus integrated data may violate global in...
computer science
35,945
Higher Order Programming to Mine Knowledge for a Modern Medical Expert System
cs.LO
Knowledge mining is the process of deriving new and useful knowledge from vast volumes of data and background knowledge. Modern healthcare organizations regularly generate huge amount of electronic data stored in the databases. These data are a valuable resource for mining useful knowledge to help medical practitioners...
computer science
35,946
ALPprolog --- A New Logic Programming Method for Dynamic Domains
cs.LO
Logic programming is a powerful paradigm for programming autonomous agents in dynamic domains, as witnessed by languages such as Golog and Flux. In this work we present ALPprolog, an expressive, yet efficient, logic programming language for the online control of agents that have to reason about incomplete information a...
computer science
35,947
Complex Optimization in Answer Set Programming
cs.LO
Preference handling and optimization are indispensable means for addressing non-trivial applications in Answer Set Programming (ASP). However, their implementation becomes difficult whenever they bring about a significant increase in computational complexity. As a consequence, existing ASP systems do not offer complex ...
computer science
35,948
An n-ary Constraint for the Stable Marriage Problem
cs.DS
We present an n-ary constraint for the stable marriage problem. This constraint acts between two sets of integer variables where the domains of those variables represent preferences. Our constraint enforces stability and disallows bigamy. For a stable marriage instance with $n$ men and $n$ women we require only one of ...
computer science
35,949
A Rough Computing based Performance Evaluation Approach for Educational Institutions
cs.CY
Performance evaluation of various organizations especially educational institutions is a very important area of research and needs to be cultivated more. In this paper, we propose a performance evaluation for educational institutions using rough set on fuzzy approximation spaces with ordering rules and information entr...
computer science
35,950
Surprise: Youve got some explaining to do
cs.AI
Why are some events more surprising than others? We propose that events that are more difficult to explain are those that are more surprising. The two experiments reported here test the impact of different event outcomes (Outcome-Type) and task demands (Task) on ratings of surprise for simple story scenarios. For the O...
computer science
35,951
Cognitive residues of similarity
cs.AI
What are the cognitive after-effects of making a similarity judgement? What, cognitively, is left behind and what effect might these residues have on subsequent processing? In this paper, we probe for such after-effects using a visual search task, performed after a task in which pictures of real-world objects were comp...
computer science
35,952
Fighting Sample Degeneracy and Impoverishment in Particle Filters: A Review of Intelligent Approaches
cs.AI
During the last two decades there has been a growing interest in Particle Filtering (PF). However, PF suffers from two long-standing problems that are referred to as sample degeneracy and impoverishment. We are investigating methods that are particularly efficient at Particle Distribution Optimization (PDO) to fight sa...
computer science
35,953
History Based Coalition Formation in Hedonic Context Using Trust
cs.MA
In this paper we address the problem of coalition formation in hedonic context. Our modelling tries to be as realistic as possible. In previous models, once an agent joins a coalition it would not be able to leave the coalition and join the new one; in this research we made it possible to leave a coalition but put some...
computer science
35,954
Decision Theory with Resource-Bounded Agents
cs.GT
There have been two major lines of research aimed at capturing resource-bounded players in game theory. The first, initiated by Rubinstein, charges an agent for doing costly computation; the second, initiated by Neyman, does not charge for computation, but limits the computation that agents can do, typically by modelin...
computer science
35,955
Exploiting Binary Floating-Point Representations for Constraint Propagation: The Complete Unabridged Version
cs.AI
Floating-point computations are quickly finding their way in the design of safety- and mission-critical systems, despite the fact that designing floating-point algorithms is significantly more difficult than designing integer algorithms. For this reason, verification and validation of floating-point computations is a h...
computer science
35,956
Firefly Algorithm: Recent Advances and Applications
math.OC
Nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms, especially those based on swarm intelligence, have attracted much attention in the last ten years. Firefly algorithm appeared in about five years ago, its literature has expanded dramatically with diverse applications. In this paper, we will briefly review the fundamentals of f...
computer science
35,957
Bat Algorithm: Literature Review and Applications
cs.AI
Bat algorithm (BA) is a bio-inspired algorithm developed by Yang in 2010 and BA has been found to be very efficient. As a result, the literature has expanded significantly in the last 3 years. This paper provides a timely review of the bat algorithm and its new variants. A wide range of diverse applications and case st...
computer science
35,958
A Literature Survey of Benchmark Functions For Global Optimization Problems
cs.AI
Test functions are important to validate and compare the performance of optimization algorithms. There have been many test or benchmark functions reported in the literature; however, there is no standard list or set of benchmark functions. Ideally, test functions should have diverse properties so that can be truly usef...
computer science
35,959
Incentives for Privacy Tradeoff in Community Sensing
cs.GT
Community sensing, fusing information from populations of privately-held sensors, presents a great opportunity to create efficient and cost-effective sensing applications. Yet, reasonable privacy concerns often limit the access to such data streams. How should systems valuate and negotiate access to private information...
computer science
35,960
Matching Demand with Supply in the Smart Grid using Agent-Based Multiunit Auction
cs.AI
Recent work has suggested reducing electricity generation cost by cutting the peak to average ratio (PAR) without reducing the total amount of the loads. However, most of these proposals rely on consumer's willingness to act. In this paper, we propose an approach to cut PAR explicitly from the supply side. The resultin...
computer science
35,961
Dynamic Reasoning Systems
cs.AI
A {\it dynamic reasoning system} (DRS) is an adaptation of a conventional formal logical system that explicitly portrays reasoning as a temporal activity, with each extralogical input to the system and each inference rule application being viewed as occurring at a distinct time step. Every DRS incorporates some well-de...
computer science
35,962
The Partner Units Configuration Problem: Completing the Picture
cs.AI
The partner units problem (PUP) is an acknowledged hard benchmark problem for the Logic Programming community with various industrial application fields like surveillance, electrical engineering, computer networks or railway safety systems. However, computational complexity remained widely unclear so far. In this paper...
computer science
35,963
A Hypergraph-Partitioned Vertex Programming Approach for Large-scale Consensus Optimization
cs.AI
In modern data science problems, techniques for extracting value from big data require performing large-scale optimization over heterogenous, irregularly structured data. Much of this data is best represented as multi-relational graphs, making vertex programming abstractions such as those of Pregel and GraphLab ideal f...
computer science
35,964
The Application of Fuzzy Logic to the Construction of the Ranking Function of Information Retrieval Systems
cs.IR
The quality of the ranking function is an important factor that determines the quality of the Information Retrieval system. Each document is assigned a score by the ranking function; the score indicates the likelihood of relevance of the document given a query. In the vector space model, the ranking function is defined...
computer science
35,965
Language, logic and ontology: uncovering the structure of commonsense knowledge
cs.AI
The purpose of this paper is twofold: (i) we argue that the structure of commonsense knowledge must be discovered, rather than invented; and (ii) we argue that natural language, which is the best known theory of our (shared) commonsense knowledge, should itself be used as a guide to discovering the structure of commons...
computer science
35,966
On Geometric Algebra representation of Binary Spatter Codes
cs.AI
Kanerva's Binary Spatter Codes are reformulated in terms of geometric algebra. The key ingredient of the construction is the representation of XOR binding in terms of geometric product.
computer science
35,967
Solving planning domains with polytree causal graphs is NP-complete
cs.AI
We show that solving planning domains on binary variables with polytree causal graph is \NP-complete. This is in contrast to a polynomial-time algorithm of Domshlak and Brafman that solves these planning domains for polytree causal graphs of bounded indegree.
computer science
35,968
Reuse of designs: Desperately seeking an interdisciplinary cognitive approach
cs.HC
This text analyses the papers accepted for the workshop "Reuse of designs: an interdisciplinary cognitive approach". Several dimensions and questions considered as important (by the authors and/or by us) are addressed: What about the "interdisciplinary cognitive" character of the approaches adopted by the authors? Is d...
computer science
35,969
Social Browsing on Flickr
cs.HC
The new social media sites - blogs, wikis, del.icio.us and Flickr, among others - underscore the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively creating, evaluating and distributing information. The photo-sharing site Flickr, for example, allows users to upload photographs, view photos ...
computer science
35,970
Hybrid Reasoning and the Future of Iconic Representations
cs.AI
We give a brief overview of the main characteristics of diagrammatic reasoning, analyze a case of human reasoning in a mastermind game, and explain why hybrid representation systems (HRS) are particularly attractive and promising for Artificial General Intelligence and Computer Science in general.
computer science
35,971
An Ant-Based Model for Multiple Sequence Alignment
cs.AI
Multiple sequence alignment is a key process in today's biology, and finding a relevant alignment of several sequences is much more challenging than just optimizing some improbable evaluation functions. Our approach for addressing multiple sequence alignment focuses on the building of structures in a new graph model: t...
computer science
35,972
Conditioning Probabilistic Databases
cs.DB
Past research on probabilistic databases has studied the problem of answering queries on a static database. Application scenarios of probabilistic databases however often involve the conditioning of a database using additional information in the form of new evidence. The conditioning problem is thus to transform a prob...
computer science
35,973
Preferred extensions as stable models
cs.AI
Given an argumentation framework AF, we introduce a mapping function that constructs a disjunctive logic program P, such that the preferred extensions of AF correspond to the stable models of P, after intersecting each stable model with the relevant atoms. The given mapping function is of polynomial size w.r.t. AF. In ...
computer science
35,974
Combinatorial Explorations in Su-Doku
cs.AI
Su-Doku, a popular combinatorial puzzle, provides an excellent testbench for heuristic explorations. Several interesting questions arise from its deceptively simple set of rules. How many distinct Su-Doku grids are there? How to find a solution to a Su-Doku puzzle? Is there a unique solution to a given Su-Doku puzzle? ...
computer science
35,975
Grammar-Based Random Walkers in Semantic Networks
cs.AI
Semantic networks qualify the meaning of an edge relating any two vertices. Determining which vertices are most "central" in a semantic network is difficult because one relationship type may be deemed subjectively more important than another. For this reason, research into semantic network metrics has focused primarily...
computer science
35,976
Probabilistic reasoning with answer sets
cs.AI
This paper develops a declarative language, P-log, that combines logical and probabilistic arguments in its reasoning. Answer Set Prolog is used as the logical foundation, while causal Bayes nets serve as a probabilistic foundation. We give several non-trivial examples and illustrate the use of P-log for knowledge repr...
computer science
35,977
Justifications for Logic Programs under Answer Set Semantics
cs.AI
The paper introduces the notion of off-line justification for Answer Set Programming (ASP). Justifications provide a graph-based explanation of the truth value of an atom w.r.t. a given answer set. The paper extends also this notion to provide justification of atoms during the computation of an answer set (on-line just...
computer science
35,978
An analysis of a random algorithm for estimating all the matchings
cs.GR
Counting the number of all the matchings on a bipartite graph has been transformed into calculating the permanent of a matrix obtained from the extended bipartite graph by Yan Huo, and Rasmussen presents a simple approach (RM) to approximate the permanent, which just yields a critical ratio O($n\omega(n)$) for almost a...
computer science
35,979
Emerge-Sort: Converging to Ordered Sequences by Simple Local Operators
cs.AI
In this paper we examine sorting on the assumption that we do not know in advance which way to sort a sequence of numbers and we set at work simple local comparison and swap operators whose repeating application ends up in sorted sequences. These are the basic elements of Emerge-Sort, our approach to self-organizing so...
computer science
35,980
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning and Genetic Policy Sharing
cs.MA
The effects of policy sharing between agents in a multi-agent dynamical system has not been studied extensively. I simulate a system of agents optimizing the same task using reinforcement learning, to study the effects of different population densities and policy sharing. I demonstrate that sharing policies decreases t...
computer science
35,981
A New Trend in Optimization on Multi Overcomplete Dictionary toward Inpainting
cs.MM
Recently, great attention was intended toward overcomplete dictionaries and the sparse representations they can provide. In a wide variety of signal processing problems, sparsity serves a crucial property leading to high performance. Inpainting, the process of reconstructing lost or deteriorated parts of images or vide...
computer science
35,982
Probabilistic SVM/GMM Classifier for Speaker-Independent Vowel Recognition in Continues Speech
cs.MM
In this paper, we discuss the issues in automatic recognition of vowels in Persian language. The present work focuses on new statistical method of recognition of vowels as a basic unit of syllables. First we describe a vowel detection system then briefly discuss how the detected vowels can feed to recognition unit. Acc...
computer science
35,983
New parallel programming language design: a bridge between brain models and multi-core/many-core computers?
cs.PL
The recurrent theme of this paper is that sequences of long temporal patterns as opposed to sequences of simple statements are to be fed into computation devices, being them (new proposed) models for brain activity or multi-core/many-core computers. In such models, parts of these long temporal patterns are already comm...
computer science
35,984
A New Method for Knowledge Representation in Expert System's (XMLKR)
cs.DC
Knowledge representation it is an essential section of a Expert Systems, Because in this section we have a framework to establish an expert system then we can modeling and use by this to design an expert system. Many method it is exist for knowledge representation but each method have problems, in this paper we introdu...
computer science
35,985
Accelerating and Evaluation of Syntactic Parsing in Natural Language Question Answering Systems
cs.AI
With the development of Natural Language Processing (NLP), more and more systems want to adopt NLP in User Interface Module to process user input, in order to communicate with user in a natural way. However, this raises a speed problem. That is, if NLP module can not process sentences in durable time delay, users will ...
computer science
35,986
Faith in the Algorithm, Part 1: Beyond the Turing Test
cs.CY
Since the Turing test was first proposed by Alan Turing in 1950, the primary goal of artificial intelligence has been predicated on the ability for computers to imitate human behavior. However, the majority of uses for the computer can be said to fall outside the domain of human abilities and it is exactly outside of t...
computer science
35,987
Impact of Cognitive Radio on Future Management of Spectrum
cs.AI
Cognitive radio is a breakthrough technology which is expected to have a profound impact on the way radio spectrum will be accessed, managed and shared in the future. In this paper I examine some of the implications of cognitive radio for future management of spectrum. Both a near-term view involving the opportunistic ...
computer science
35,988
Filtering Algorithms for the Multiset Ordering Constraint
cs.AI
Constraint programming (CP) has been used with great success to tackle a wide variety of constraint satisfaction problems which are computationally intractable in general. Global constraints are one of the important factors behind the success of CP. In this paper, we study a new global constraint, the multiset ordering...
computer science
35,989
The Parameterized Complexity of Global Constraints
cs.AI
We argue that parameterized complexity is a useful tool with which to study global constraints. In particular, we show that many global constraints which are intractable to propagate completely have natural parameters which make them fixed-parameter tractable and which are easy to compute. This tractability tends eithe...
computer science
35,990
Decompositions of Grammar Constraints
cs.AI
A wide range of constraints can be compactly specified using automata or formal languages. In a sequence of recent papers, we have shown that an effective means to reason with such specifications is to decompose them into primitive constraints. We can then, for instance, use state of the art SAT solvers and profit from...
computer science
35,991
SLIDE: A Useful Special Case of the CARDPATH Constraint
cs.AI
We study the CardPath constraint. This ensures a given constraint holds a number of times down a sequence of variables. We show that SLIDE, a special case of CardPath where the slid constraint must hold always, can be used to encode a wide range of sliding sequence constraints including CardPath itself. We consider how...
computer science
35,992
Algorithms for Weighted Boolean Optimization
cs.AI
The Pseudo-Boolean Optimization (PBO) and Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) problems are natural optimization extensions of Boolean Satisfiability (SAT). In the recent past, different algorithms have been proposed for PBO and for MaxSAT, despite the existence of straightforward mappings from PBO to MaxSAT and vice-vers...
computer science
35,993
Decomposition, Reformulation, and Diving in University Course Timetabling
cs.DS
In many real-life optimisation problems, there are multiple interacting components in a solution. For example, different components might specify assignments to different kinds of resource. Often, each component is associated with different sets of soft constraints, and so with different measures of soft constraint vio...
computer science
35,994
Symmetry Breaking Using Value Precedence
cs.AI
We present a comprehensive study of the use of value precedence constraints to break value symmetry. We first give a simple encoding of value precedence into ternary constraints that is both efficient and effective at breaking symmetry. We then extend value precedence to deal with a number of generalizations like wreat...
computer science
35,995
The Complexity of Reasoning with Global Constraints
cs.AI
Constraint propagation is one of the techniques central to the success of constraint programming. To reduce search, fast algorithms associated with each constraint prune the domains of variables. With global (or non-binary) constraints, the cost of such propagation may be much greater than the quadratic cost for binary...
computer science
35,996
Breaking Value Symmetry
cs.AI
One common type of symmetry is when values are symmetric. For example, if we are assigning colours (values) to nodes (variables) in a graph colouring problem then we can uniformly interchange the colours throughout a colouring. For a problem with value symmetries, all symmetric solutions can be eliminated in polynomial...
computer science
35,997
Tetravex is NP-complete
cs.CC
Tetravex is a widely played one person computer game in which you are given $n^2$ unit tiles, each edge of which is labelled with a number. The objective is to place each tile within a $n$ by $n$ square such that all neighbouring edges are labelled with an identical number. Unfortunately, playing Tetravex is computatio...
computer science
35,998
Contracting preference relations for database applications
cs.AI
The binary relation framework has been shown to be applicable to many real-life preference handling scenarios. Here we study preference contraction: the problem of discarding selected preferences. We argue that the property of minimality and the preservation of strict partial orders are crucial for contractions. Contra...
computer science
35,999
Airport Gate Assignment A Hybrid Model and Implementation
cs.AI
With the rapid development of airlines, airports today become much busier and more complicated than previous days. During airlines daily operations, assigning the available gates to the arriving aircrafts based on the fixed schedule is a very important issue, which motivates researchers to study and solve Airport Gate ...
computer science
36,000
Quantum decision theory as quantum theory of measurement
cs.AI
We present a general theory of quantum information processing devices, that can be applied to human decision makers, to atomic multimode registers, or to molecular high-spin registers. Our quantum decision theory is a generalization of the quantum theory of measurement, endowed with an action ring, a prospect lattice a...
computer science
36,001
Mining Compressed Repetitive Gapped Sequential Patterns Efficiently
cs.DB
Mining frequent sequential patterns from sequence databases has been a central research topic in data mining and various efficient mining sequential patterns algorithms have been proposed and studied. Recently, in many problem domains (e.g, program execution traces), a novel sequential pattern mining research, called m...
computer science
36,002
The CIFF Proof Procedure for Abductive Logic Programming with Constraints: Theory, Implementation and Experiments
cs.AI
We present the CIFF proof procedure for abductive logic programming with constraints, and we prove its correctness. CIFF is an extension of the IFF proof procedure for abductive logic programming, relaxing the original restrictions over variable quantification (allowedness conditions) and incorporating a constraint sol...
computer science
36,003
On Defining 'I' "I logy"
cs.AI
Could we define I? Throughout this article we give a negative answer to this question. More exactly, we show that there is no definition for I in a certain way. But this negative answer depends on our definition of definability. Here, we try to consider sufficient generalized definition of definability. In the middle o...
computer science
36,004
Managing Requirement Volatility in an Ontology-Driven Clinical LIMS Using Category Theory. International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications
cs.AI
Requirement volatility is an issue in software engineering in general, and in Web-based clinical applications in particular, which often originates from an incomplete knowledge of the domain of interest. With advances in the health science, many features and functionalities need to be added to, or removed from, existin...
computer science
36,005
Towards Improving Validation, Verification, Crash Investigations, and Event Reconstruction of Flight-Critical Systems with Self-Forensics
cs.SE
This paper introduces a novel concept of self-forensics to complement the standard autonomic self-CHOP properties of the self-managed systems, to be specified in the Forensic Lucid language. We argue that self-forensics, with the forensics taken out of the cybercrime domain, is applicable to "self-dissection" for the p...
computer science
36,006
Characterising equilibrium logic and nested logic programs: Reductions and complexity
cs.LO
Equilibrium logic is an approach to nonmonotonic reasoning that extends the stable-model and answer-set semantics for logic programs. In particular, it includes the general case of nested logic programs, where arbitrary Boolean combinations are permitted in heads and bodies of rules, as special kinds of theories. In th...
computer science