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Design of a GIS-based Assistant Software Agent for the Incident Commander to Coordinate Emergency Response Operations
cs.MA
Problem: This paper addresses the design of an intelligent software system for the IC (incident commander) of a team in order to coordinate actions of agents (field units or robots) in the domain of emergency/crisis response operations. Objective: This paper proposes GICoordinator. It is a GIS-based assistant software ...
computer science
36,408
A stochastic model for Case-Based Reasoning
cs.AI
Case-Bsed Reasoning (CBR) is a recent theory for problem-solving and learning in computers and people.Broadly construed it is the process of solving new problems based on the solution of similar past problems. In the present paper we introduce an absorbing Markov chain on the main steps of the CBR process.In this way w...
computer science
36,409
LB2CO: A Semantic Ontology Framework for B2C eCommerce Transaction on the Internet
cs.CY
Business ontology can enhance the successful development of complex enterprise system; this is being achieved through knowledge sharing and the ease of communication between every entity in the domain. Through human semantic interaction with the web resources, machines to interpret the data published in a machine inter...
computer science
36,410
Solver Scheduling via Answer Set Programming
cs.AI
Although Boolean Constraint Technology has made tremendous progress over the last decade, the efficacy of state-of-the-art solvers is known to vary considerably across different types of problem instances and is known to depend strongly on algorithm parameters. This problem was addressed by means of a simple, yet effec...
computer science
36,411
Constraint Solvers for User Interface Layout
cs.HC
Constraints have played an important role in the construction of GUIs, where they are mainly used to define the layout of the widgets. Resizing behavior is very important in GUIs because areas have domain specific parameters such as form the resizing of windows. If linear objective function is used and window is resize...
computer science
36,412
Learning optimization models in the presence of unknown relations
cs.AI
In a sequential auction with multiple bidding agents, it is highly challenging to determine the ordering of the items to sell in order to maximize the revenue due to the fact that the autonomy and private information of the agents heavily influence the outcome of the auction. The main contribution of this paper is tw...
computer science
36,413
Belief Revision in Structured Probabilistic Argumentation
cs.LO
In real-world applications, knowledge bases consisting of all the information at hand for a specific domain, along with the current state of affairs, are bound to contain contradictory data coming from different sources, as well as data with varying degrees of uncertainty attached. Likewise, an important aspect of the ...
computer science
36,414
Emotional Responses in Artificial Agent-Based Systems: Reflexivity and Adaptation in Artificial Life
cs.AI
The current work addresses a virtual environment with self-replicating agents whose decisions are based on a form of "somatic computation" (soma - body) in which basic emotional responses, taken in parallelism to actual living organisms, are introduced as a way to provide the agents with greater reflexive abilities. Th...
computer science
36,415
STIMONT: A core ontology for multimedia stimuli description
cs.MM
Affective multimedia documents such as images, sounds or videos elicit emotional responses in exposed human subjects. These stimuli are stored in affective multimedia databases and successfully used for a wide variety of research in psychology and neuroscience in areas related to attention and emotion processing. Altho...
computer science
36,416
Does Restraining End Effect Matter in EMD-Based Modeling Framework for Time Series Prediction? Some Experimental Evidences
cs.AI
Following the "decomposition-and-ensemble" principle, the empirical mode decomposition (EMD)-based modeling framework has been widely used as a promising alternative for nonlinear and nonstationary time series modeling and prediction. The end effect, which occurs during the sifting process of EMD and is apt to distort ...
computer science
36,417
The Missing Ones: Key Ingredients Towards Effective Ambient Assisted Living Systems
cs.CY
The population of elderly people keeps increasing rapidly, which becomes a predominant aspect of our societies. As such, solutions both efficacious and cost-effective need to be sought. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is a new approach which promises to address the needs from elderly people. In this paper, we claim that ...
computer science
36,418
Networks of Influence Diagrams: A Formalism for Representing Agents' Beliefs and Decision-Making Processes
cs.GT
This paper presents Networks of Influence Diagrams (NID), a compact, natural and highly expressive language for reasoning about agents beliefs and decision-making processes. NIDs are graphical structures in which agents mental models are represented as nodes in a network; a mental model for an agent may itself use desc...
computer science
36,419
A Unifying Framework for Structural Properties of CSPs: Definitions, Complexity, Tractability
cs.AI
Literature on Constraint Satisfaction exhibits the definition of several structural properties that can be possessed by CSPs, like (in)consistency, substitutability or interchangeability. Current tools for constraint solving typically detect such properties efficiently by means of incomplete yet effective algorithms, a...
computer science
36,420
Efficient Informative Sensing using Multiple Robots
cs.RO
The need for efficient monitoring of spatio-temporal dynamics in large environmental applications, such as the water quality monitoring in rivers and lakes, motivates the use of robotic sensors in order to achieve sufficient spatial coverage. Typically, these robots have bounded resources, such as limited battery or li...
computer science
36,421
Automated Reasoning in Modal and Description Logics via SAT Encoding: the Case Study of K(m)/ALC-Satisfiability
cs.LO
In the last two decades, modal and description logics have been applied to numerous areas of computer science, including knowledge representation, formal verification, database theory, distributed computing and, more recently, semantic web and ontologies. For this reason, the problem of automated reasoning in modal and...
computer science
36,422
An Anytime Algorithm for Optimal Coalition Structure Generation
cs.MA
Coalition formation is a fundamental type of interaction that involves the creation of coherent groupings of distinct, autonomous, agents in order to efficiently achieve their individual or collective goals. Forming effective coalitions is a major research challenge in the field of multi-agent systems. Central to this ...
computer science
36,423
Planning over Chain Causal Graphs for Variables with Domains of Size 5 Is NP-Hard
cs.AI
Recently, considerable focus has been given to the problem of determining the boundary between tractable and intractable planning problems. In this paper, we study the complexity of planning in the class C_n of planning problems, characterized by unary operators and directed path causal graphs. Although this is one of ...
computer science
36,424
Variable Forgetting in Reasoning about Knowledge
cs.LO
In this paper, we investigate knowledge reasoning within a simple framework called knowledge structure. We use variable forgetting as a basic operation for one agent to reason about its own or other agents\ knowledge. In our framework, two notions namely agents\ observable variables and the weakest sufficient condition...
computer science
36,425
Prime Implicates and Prime Implicants: From Propositional to Modal Logic
cs.LO
Prime implicates and prime implicants have proven relevant to a number of areas of artificial intelligence, most notably abductive reasoning and knowledge compilation. The purpose of this paper is to examine how these notions might be appropriately extended from propositional logic to the modal logic K. We begin the pa...
computer science
36,426
The Complexity of Circumscription in DLs
cs.LO
As fragments of first-order logic, Description logics (DLs) do not provide nonmonotonic features such as defeasible inheritance and default rules. Since many applications would benefit from the availability of such features, several families of nonmonotonic DLs have been developed that are mostly based on default logic...
computer science
36,427
Modularity Aspects of Disjunctive Stable Models
cs.LO
Practically all programming languages allow the programmer to split a program into several modules which brings along several advantages in software development. In this paper, we are interested in the area of answer-set programming where fully declarative and nonmonotonic languages are applied. In this context, obtain...
computer science
36,428
Hypertableau Reasoning for Description Logics
cs.LO
We present a novel reasoning calculus for the description logic SHOIQ^+---a knowledge representation formalism with applications in areas such as the Semantic Web. Unnecessary nondeterminism and the construction of large models are two primary sources of inefficiency in the tableau-based reasoning calculi used in state...
computer science
36,429
The DL-Lite Family and Relations
cs.LO
The recently introduced series of description logics under the common moniker DL-Lite has attracted attention of the description logic and semantic web communities due to the low computational complexity of inference, on the one hand, and the ability to represent conceptual modeling formalisms, on the other. The main a...
computer science
36,430
Modeling Concept Combinations in a Quantum-theoretic Framework
cs.AI
We present modeling for conceptual combinations which uses the mathematical formalism of quantum theory. Our model faithfully describes a large amount of experimental data collected by different scholars on concept conjunctions and disjunctions. Furthermore, our approach sheds a new light on long standing drawbacks con...
computer science
36,431
Reasoning About the Transfer of Control
cs.AI
We present DCL-PC: a logic for reasoning about how the abilities of agents and coalitions of agents are altered by transferring control from one agent to another. The logical foundation of DCL-PC is CL-PC, a logic for reasoning about cooperation in which the abilities of agents and coalitions of agents stem from a dist...
computer science
36,432
Grounding FO and FO(ID) with Bounds
cs.LO
Grounding is the task of reducing a first-order theory and finite domain to an equivalent propositional theory. It is used as preprocessing phase in many logic-based reasoning systems. Such systems provide a rich first-order input language to a user and can rely on efficient propositional solvers to perform the actual ...
computer science
36,433
Theta*: Any-Angle Path Planning on Grids
cs.CG
Grids with blocked and unblocked cells are often used to represent terrain in robotics and video games. However, paths formed by grid edges can be longer than true shortest paths in the terrain since their headings are artificially constrained. We present two new correct and complete any-angle path-planning algorithms ...
computer science
36,434
Multiattribute Auctions Based on Generalized Additive Independence
cs.GT
We develop multiattribute auctions that accommodate generalized additive independent (GAI) preferences. We propose an iterative auction mechanism that maintains prices on potentially overlapping GAI clusters of attributes, thus decreases elicitation and computational burden, and creates an open competition among suppli...
computer science
36,435
Resource-Driven Mission-Phasing Techniques for Constrained Agents in Stochastic Environments
cs.MA
Because an agents resources dictate what actions it can possibly take, it should plan which resources it holds over time carefully, considering its inherent limitations (such as power or payload restrictions), the competing needs of other agents for the same resources, and the stochastic nature of the environment. Such...
computer science
36,436
Nominals, Inverses, Counting, and Conjunctive Queries or: Why Infinity is your Friend!
cs.LO
Description Logics are knowledge representation formalisms that provide, for example, the logical underpinning of the W3C OWL standards. Conjunctive queries, the standard query language in databases, have recently gained significant attention as an expressive formalism for querying Description Logic knowledge bases. Se...
computer science
36,437
Intrusion Detection using Continuous Time Bayesian Networks
cs.AI
Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) fall into two high-level categories: network-based systems (NIDS) that monitor network behaviors, and host-based systems (HIDS) that monitor system calls. In this work, we present a general technique for both systems. We use anomaly detection, which identifies patterns not conforming ...
computer science
36,438
Algorithms for Closed Under Rational Behavior (CURB) Sets
cs.GT
We provide a series of algorithms demonstrating that solutions according to the fundamental game-theoretic solution concept of closed under rational behavior (CURB) sets in two-player, normal-form games can be computed in polynomial time (we also discuss extensions to n-player games). First, we describe an algorithm th...
computer science
36,439
Logical Foundations of RDF(S) with Datatypes
cs.LO
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a Semantic Web standard that provides a data language, simply called RDF, as well as a lightweight ontology language, called RDF Schema. We investigate embeddings of RDF in logic and show how standard logic programming and description logic technology can be used for reasonin...
computer science
36,440
Best-First Heuristic Search for Multicore Machines
cs.AI
To harness modern multicore processors, it is imperative to develop parallel versions of fundamental algorithms. In this paper, we compare different approaches to parallel best-first search in a shared-memory setting. We present a new method, PBNF, that uses abstraction to partition the state space and to detect duplic...
computer science
36,441
A Logical Study of Partial Entailment
cs.LO
We introduce a novel logical notion--partial entailment--to propositional logic. In contrast with classical entailment, that a formula P partially entails another formula Q with respect to a background formula set \Gamma intuitively means that under the circumstance of \Gamma, if P is true then some "part" of Q will al...
computer science
36,442
Clause-Learning Algorithms with Many Restarts and Bounded-Width Resolution
cs.LO
We offer a new understanding of some aspects of practical SAT-solvers that are based on DPLL with unit-clause propagation, clause-learning, and restarts. We do so by analyzing a concrete algorithm which we claim is faithful to what practical solvers do. In particular, before making any new decision or restart, the solv...
computer science
36,443
Computing Small Unsatisfiable Cores in Satisfiability Modulo Theories
cs.LO
The problem of finding small unsatisfiable cores for SAT formulas has recently received a lot of interest, mostly for its applications in formal verification. However, propositional logic is often not expressive enough for representing many interesting verification problems, which can be more naturally addressed in the...
computer science
36,444
Soft Constraints of Difference and Equality
cs.AI
In many combinatorial problems one may need to model the diversity or similarity of assignments in a solution. For example, one may wish to maximise or minimise the number of distinct values in a solution. To formulate problems of this type, we can use soft variants of the well known AllDifferent and AllEqual constrain...
computer science
36,445
The Complexity of Integer Bound Propagation
cs.AI
Bound propagation is an important Artificial Intelligence technique used in Constraint Programming tools to deal with numerical constraints. It is typically embedded within a search procedure ("branch and prune") and used at every node of the search tree to narrow down the search space, so it is critical that it be fas...
computer science
36,446
Interpolable Formulas in Equilibrium Logic and Answer Set Programming
cs.LO
Interpolation is an important property of classical and many non-classical logics that has been shown to have interesting applications in computer science and AI. Here we study the Interpolation Property for the the non-monotonic system of equilibrium logic, establishing weaker or stronger forms of interpolation depend...
computer science
36,447
First-Order Stable Model Semantics and First-Order Loop Formulas
cs.LO
Lin and Zhaos theorem on loop formulas states that in the propositional case the stable model semantics of a logic program can be completely characterized by propositional loop formulas, but this result does not fully carry over to the first-order case. We investigate the precise relationship between the first-order st...
computer science
36,448
Decidability and Undecidability Results for Propositional Schemata
cs.LO
We define a logic of propositional formula schemata adding to the syntax of propositional logic indexed propositions and iterated connectives ranging over intervals parameterized by arithmetic variables. The satisfiability problem is shown to be undecidable for this new logic, but we introduce a very general class of s...
computer science
36,449
Defeasible Inclusions in Low-Complexity DLs
cs.LO
Some of the applications of OWL and RDF (e.g. biomedical knowledge representation and semantic policy formulation) call for extensions of these languages with nonmonotonic constructs such as inheritance with overriding. Nonmonotonic description logics have been studied for many years, however no practical such knowledg...
computer science
36,450
On the Link between Partial Meet, Kernel, and Infra Contraction and its Application to Horn Logic
cs.AI
Standard belief change assumes an underlying logic containing full classical propositional logic. However, there are good reasons for considering belief change in less expressive logics as well. In this paper we build on recent investigations by Delgrande on contraction for Horn logic. We show that the standard basic f...
computer science
36,451
Making Decisions Using Sets of Probabilities: Updating, Time Consistency, and Calibration
cs.AI
We consider how an agent should update her beliefs when her beliefs are represented by a set P of probability distributions, given that the agent makes decisions using the minimax criterion, perhaps the best-studied and most commonly-used criterion in the literature. We adopt a game-theoretic framework, where the agent...
computer science
36,452
Scheduling Bipartite Tournaments to Minimize Total Travel Distance
cs.AI
In many professional sports leagues, teams from opposing leagues/conferences compete against one another, playing inter-league games. This is an example of a bipartite tournament. In this paper, we consider the problem of reducing the total travel distance of bipartite tournaments, by analyzing inter-league scheduling ...
computer science
36,453
Location-Based Reasoning about Complex Multi-Agent Behavior
cs.MA
Recent research has shown that surprisingly rich models of human activity can be learned from GPS (positional) data. However, most effort to date has concentrated on modeling single individuals or statistical properties of groups of people. Moreover, prior work focused solely on modeling actual successful executions (a...
computer science
36,454
Unfounded Sets and Well-Founded Semantics of Answer Set Programs with Aggregates
cs.LO
Logic programs with aggregates (LPA) are one of the major linguistic extensions to Logic Programming (LP). In this work, we propose a generalization of the notions of unfounded set and well-founded semantics for programs with monotone and antimonotone aggregates (LPAma programs). In particular, we present a new notion ...
computer science
36,455
Learning and Reasoning with Action-Related Places for Robust Mobile Manipulation
cs.RO
We propose the concept of Action-Related Place (ARPlace) as a powerful and flexible representation of task-related place in the context of mobile manipulation. ARPlace represents robot base locations not as a single position, but rather as a collection of positions, each with an associated probability that the manipula...
computer science
36,456
Completeness Guarantees for Incomplete Ontology Reasoners: Theory and Practice
cs.AI
To achieve scalability of query answering, the developers of Semantic Web applications are often forced to use incomplete OWL 2 reasoners, which fail to derive all answers for at least one query, ontology, and data set. The lack of completeness guarantees, however, may be unacceptable for applications in areas such as ...
computer science
36,457
Consistency Techniques for Flow-Based Projection-Safe Global Cost Functions in Weighted Constraint Satisfaction
cs.AI
Many combinatorial problems deal with preferences and violations, the goal of which is to find solutions with the minimum cost. Weighted constraint satisfaction is a framework for modeling such problems, which consists of a set of cost functions to measure the degree of violation or preferences of different combination...
computer science
36,458
Reformulating the Situation Calculus and the Event Calculus in the General Theory of Stable Models and in Answer Set Programming
cs.AI
Circumscription and logic programs under the stable model semantics are two well-known nonmonotonic formalisms. The former has served as a basis of classical logic based action formalisms, such as the situation calculus, the event calculus and temporal action logics; the latter has served as a basis of a family of acti...
computer science
36,459
Computing All-Pairs Shortest Paths by Leveraging Low Treewidth
cs.DS
We present two new and efficient algorithms for computing all-pairs shortest paths. The algorithms operate on directed graphs with real (possibly negative) weights. They make use of directed path consistency along a vertex ordering d. Both algorithms run in O(n^2 w_d) time, where w_d is the graph width induced by this ...
computer science
36,460
Local Consistency and SAT-Solvers
cs.AI
Local consistency techniques such as k-consistency are a key component of specialised solvers for constraint satisfaction problems. In this paper we show that the power of using k-consistency techniques on a constraint satisfaction problem is precisely captured by using a particular inference rule, which we call negati...
computer science
36,461
A Scalable Conditional Independence Test for Nonlinear, Non-Gaussian Data
cs.AI
Many relations of scientific interest are nonlinear, and even in linear systems distributions are often non-Gaussian, for example in fMRI BOLD data. A class of search procedures for causal relations in high dimensional data relies on sample derived conditional independence decisions. The most common applications rely o...
computer science
36,462
A Microkernel Architecture for Constraint Programming
cs.AI
This paper presents a microkernel architecture for constraint programming organized around a number of small number of core functionalities and minimal interfaces. The architecture contrasts with the monolithic nature of many implementations. Experimental results indicate that the software engineering benefits are not ...
computer science
36,463
Domain Views for Constraint Programming
cs.AI
Views are a standard abstraction in constraint programming: They make it possible to implement a single version of each constraint, while avoiding to create new variables and constraints that would slow down propagation. Traditional constraint-programming systems provide the concept of {\em variable views} which implem...
computer science
36,464
The Logical Difference for the Lightweight Description Logic EL
cs.LO
We study a logic-based approach to versioning of ontologies. Under this view, ontologies provide answers to queries about some vocabulary of interest. The difference between two versions of an ontology is given by the set of queries that receive different answers. We investigate this approach for terminologies given in...
computer science
36,465
Algorithms for Generating Ordered Solutions for Explicit AND/OR Structures
cs.AI
We present algorithms for generating alternative solutions for explicit acyclic AND/OR structures in non-decreasing order of cost. The proposed algorithms use a best first search technique and report the solutions using an implicit representation ordered by cost. In this paper, we present two versions of the search alg...
computer science
36,466
Reasoning over Ontologies with Hidden Content: The Import-by-Query Approach
cs.AI
There is currently a growing interest in techniques for hiding parts of the signature of an ontology Kh that is being reused by another ontology Kv. Towards this goal, in this paper we propose the import-by-query framework, which makes the content of Kh accessible through a limited query interface. If Kv reuses the sym...
computer science
36,467
Tractable Triangles and Cross-Free Convexity in Discrete Optimisation
cs.CC
The minimisation problem of a sum of unary and pairwise functions of discrete variables is a general NP-hard problem with wide applications such as computing MAP configurations in Markov Random Fields (MRF), minimising Gibbs energy, or solving binary Valued Constraint Satisfaction Problems (VCSPs). We study the compu...
computer science
36,468
SAP Speaks PDDL: Exploiting a Software-Engineering Model for Planning in Business Process Management
cs.AI
Planning is concerned with the automated solution of action sequencing problems described in declarative languages giving the action preconditions and effects. One important application area for such technology is the creation of new processes in Business Process Management (BPM), which is essential in an ever more dyn...
computer science
36,469
An adaptive Simulated Annealing-based satellite observation scheduling method combined with a dynamic task clustering strategy
cs.AI
Efficient scheduling is of great significance to rationally make use of scarce satellite resources. Task clustering has been demonstrated to realize an effective strategy to improve the efficiency of satellite scheduling. However, the previous task clustering strategy is static. That is, it is integrated into the sched...
computer science
36,470
Using Neural Network to Propose Solutions to Threats in Attack Patterns
cs.CR
In the last decade, a lot of effort has been put into securing software application during development in the software industry. Software security is a research field in this area which looks at how security can be weaved into software at each phase of software development lifecycle (SDLC). The use of attack patterns i...
computer science
36,471
Hypergraph Acyclicity and Propositional Model Counting
cs.CC
We show that the propositional model counting problem #SAT for CNF- formulas with hypergraphs that allow a disjoint branches decomposition can be solved in polynomial time. We show that this class of hypergraphs is incomparable to hypergraphs of bounded incidence cliquewidth which were the biggest class of hypergraphs ...
computer science
36,472
Quality of Geographic Information: Ontological approach and Artificial Intelligence Tools
cs.AI
The objective is to present one important aspect of the European IST-FET project "REV!GIS"1: the methodology which has been developed for the translation (interpretation) of the quality of the data into a "fitness for use" information, that we can confront to the user needs in its application. This methodology is based...
computer science
36,473
Customizable Contraction Hierarchies
cs.DS
We consider the problem of quickly computing shortest paths in weighted graphs given auxiliary data derived in an expensive preprocessing phase. By adding a fast weight-customization phase, we extend Contraction Hierarchies by Geisberger et al to support the three-phase workflow introduced by Delling et al. Our Customi...
computer science
36,474
Optimal Rectangle Packing: An Absolute Placement Approach
cs.AI
We consider the problem of finding all enclosing rectangles of minimum area that can contain a given set of rectangles without overlap. Our rectangle packer chooses the x-coordinates of all the rectangles before any of the y-coordinates. We then transform the problem into a perfect-packing problem with no empty space b...
computer science
36,475
Description Logic Knowledge and Action Bases
cs.AI
Description logic Knowledge and Action Bases (KAB) are a mechanism for providing both a semantically rich representation of the information on the domain of interest in terms of a description logic knowledge base and actions to change such information over time, possibly introducing new objects. We resort to a variant ...
computer science
36,476
Reasoning about Explanations for Negative Query Answers in DL-Lite
cs.AI
In order to meet usability requirements, most logic-based applications provide explanation facilities for reasoning services. This holds also for Description Logics, where research has focused on the explanation of both TBox reasoning and, more recently, query answering. Besides explaining the presence of a tuple in a ...
computer science
36,477
Optimizing SPARQL Query Answering over OWL Ontologies
cs.DB
The SPARQL query language is currently being extended by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) with so-called entailment regimes. An entailment regime defines how queries are evaluated under more expressive semantics than SPARQLs standard simple entailment, which is based on subgraph matching. The queries are very expres...
computer science
36,478
NuMVC: An Efficient Local Search Algorithm for Minimum Vertex Cover
cs.AI
The Minimum Vertex Cover (MVC) problem is a prominent NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem of great importance in both theory and application. Local search has proved successful for this problem. However, there are two main drawbacks in state-of-the-art MVC local search algorithms. First, they select a pair of ve...
computer science
36,479
A Refined View of Causal Graphs and Component Sizes: SP-Closed Graph Classes and Beyond
cs.AI
The causal graph of a planning instance is an important tool for planning both in practice and in theory. The theoretical studies of causal graphs have largely analysed the computational complexity of planning for instances where the causal graph has a certain structure, often in combination with other parameters like ...
computer science
36,480
Learning by Observation of Agent Software Images
cs.AI
Learning by observation can be of key importance whenever agents sharing similar features want to learn from each other. This paper presents an agent architecture that enables software agents to learn by direct observation of the actions executed by expert agents while they are performing a task. This is possible becau...
computer science
36,481
User Friendly Line CAPTCHAs
cs.HC
CAPTCHAs or reverse Turing tests are real-time assessments used by programs (or computers) to tell humans and machines apart. This is achieved by assigning and assessing hard AI problems that could only be solved easily by human but not by machines. Applications of such assessments range from stopping spammers from aut...
computer science
36,482
Frequency-Based Patrolling with Heterogeneous Agents and Limited Communication
cs.MA
This paper investigates multi-agent frequencybased patrolling of intersecting, circle graphs under conditions where graph nodes have non-uniform visitation requirements and agents have limited ability to communicate. The task is modeled as a partially observable Markov decision process, and a reinforcement learning sol...
computer science
36,483
Relations on FP-Soft Sets Applied to Decision Making Problems
math.LO
In this work, we first define relations on the fuzzy parametrized soft sets and study their properties. We also give a decision making method based on these relations. In approximate reasoning, relations on the fuzzy parametrized soft sets have shown to be of a primordial importance. Finally, the method is successfully...
computer science
36,484
Finding Coordinated Paths for Multiple Holonomic Agents in 2-d Polygonal Environment
cs.AI
Avoiding collisions is one of the vital tasks for systems of autonomous mobile agents. We focus on the problem of finding continuous coordinated paths for multiple mobile disc agents in a 2-d environment with polygonal obstacles. The problem is PSPACE-hard, with the state space growing exponentially in the number of ag...
computer science
36,485
Towards Ultra Rapid Restarts
cs.AI
We observe a trend regarding restart strategies used in SAT solvers. A few years ago, most state-of-the-art solvers restarted on average after a few thousands of backtracks. Currently, restarting after a dozen backtracks results in much better performance. The main reason for this trend is that heuristics and data stru...
computer science
36,486
Symbiosis of Search and Heuristics for Random 3-SAT
cs.DS
When combined properly, search techniques can reveal the full potential of sophisticated branching heuristics. We demonstrate this observation on the well-known class of random 3-SAT formulae. First, a new branching heuristic is presented, which generalizes existing work on this class. Much smaller search trees can be ...
computer science
36,487
Concurrent Cube-and-Conquer
cs.DS
Recent work introduced the cube-and-conquer technique to solve hard SAT instances. It partitions the search space into cubes using a lookahead solver. Each cube is tackled by a conflict-driven clause learning (CDCL) solver. Crucial for strong performance is the cutoff heuristic that decides when to switch from lookahea...
computer science
36,488
A normative account of defeasible and probabilistic inference
cs.LO
In this paper, we provide more evidence for the contention that logical consequence should be understood in normative terms. Hartry Field and John MacFarlane covered the classical case. We extend their work, examining what it means for an agent to be obliged to infer a conclusion when faced with uncertain information o...
computer science
36,489
The Application of Imperialist Competitive Algorithm for Fuzzy Random Portfolio Selection Problem
math.OC
This paper presents an implementation of the Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA) for solving the fuzzy random portfolio selection problem where the asset returns are represented by fuzzy random variables. Portfolio Optimization is an important research field in modern finance. By using the necessity-based model, fu...
computer science
36,490
Using the Crowd to Generate Content for Scenario-Based Serious-Games
cs.AI
In the last decade, scenario-based serious-games have become a main tool for learning new skills and capabilities. An important factor in the development of such systems is the overhead in time, cost and human resources to manually create the content for these scenarios. We focus on how to create content for scenarios ...
computer science
36,491
Interpreting social cues to generate credible affective reactions of virtual job interviewers
cs.AI
In this paper we describe a mechanism of generating credible affective reactions in a virtual recruiter during an interaction with a user. This is done using communicative performance computation based on the behaviours of the user as detected by a recognition module. The proposed software pipeline is part of the TARDI...
computer science
36,492
Statistical Constraints
cs.AI
We introduce statistical constraints, a declarative modelling tool that links statistics and constraint programming. We discuss two statistical constraints and some associated filtering algorithms. Finally, we illustrate applications to standard problems encountered in statistics and to a novel inspection scheduling pr...
computer science
36,493
A Survey on Dynamic Job Scheduling in Grid Environment Based on Heuristic Algorithms
cs.DC
Computational Grids are a new trend in distributed computing systems. They allow the sharing of geographically distributed resources in an efficient way, extending the boundaries of what we perceive as distributed computing. Various sciences can benefit from the use of grids to solve CPU-intensive problems, creating po...
computer science
36,494
Characterizing and computing stable models of logic programs: The non-stratified case
cs.AI
Stable Logic Programming (SLP) is an emergent, alternative style of logic programming: each solution to a problem is represented by a stable model of a deductive database/function-free logic program encoding the problem itself. Several implementations now exist for stable logic programming, and their performance is rap...
computer science
36,495
Friend Inspector: A Serious Game to Enhance Privacy Awareness in Social Networks
cs.CY
Currently, many users of Social Network Sites are insufficiently aware of who can see their shared personal items. Nonetheless, most approaches focus on enhancing privacy in Social Networks through improved privacy settings, neglecting the fact that privacy awareness is a prerequisite for privacy control. Social Networ...
computer science
36,496
A predictive analytics approach to reducing avoidable hospital readmission
stat.AP
Hospital readmission has become a critical metric of quality and cost of healthcare. Medicare anticipates that nearly $17 billion is paid out on the 20% of patients who are readmitted within 30 days of discharge. Although several interventions such as transition care management and discharge reengineering have been pra...
computer science
36,497
The Complexity of Repairing, Adjusting, and Aggregating of Extensions in Abstract Argumentation
cs.DS
We study the computational complexity of problems that arise in abstract argumentation in the context of dynamic argumentation, minimal change, and aggregation. In particular, we consider the following problems where always an argumentation framework F and a small positive integer k are given. - The Repair problem as...
computer science
36,498
Enaction-Based Artificial Intelligence: Toward Coevolution with Humans in the Loop
cs.AI
This article deals with the links between the enaction paradigm and artificial intelligence. Enaction is considered a metaphor for artificial intelligence, as a number of the notions which it deals with are deemed incompatible with the phenomenal field of the virtual. After explaining this stance, we shall review previ...
computer science
36,499
Robot Location Estimation in the Situation Calculus
cs.AI
Location estimation is a fundamental sensing task in robotic applications, where the world is uncertain, and sensors and effectors are noisy. Most systems make various assumptions about the dependencies between state variables, and especially about how these dependencies change as a result of actions. Building on a gen...
computer science
36,500
Timed Soft Concurrent Constraint Programs: An Interleaved and a Parallel Approach
cs.PL
We propose a timed and soft extension of Concurrent Constraint Programming. The time extension is based on the hypothesis of bounded asynchrony: the computation takes a bounded period of time and is measured by a discrete global clock. Action prefixing is then considered as the syntactic marker which distinguishes a ti...
computer science
36,501
New Ideas for Brain Modelling
cs.AI
This paper describes some biologically-inspired processes that could be used to build the sort of networks that we associate with the human brain. New to this paper, a 'refined' neuron will be proposed. This is a group of neurons that by joining together can produce a more analogue system, but with the same level of co...
computer science
36,502
A Novel Method for Comparative Analysis of DNA Sequences by Ramanujan-Fourier Transform
cs.CE
Alignment-free sequence analysis approaches provide important alternatives over multiple sequence alignment (MSA) in biological sequence analysis because alignment-free approaches have low computation complexity and are not dependent on high level of sequence identity, however, most of the existing alignment-free metho...
computer science
36,503
Sensing Subjective Well-being from Social Media
cs.AI
Subjective Well-being(SWB), which refers to how people experience the quality of their lives, is of great use to public policy-makers as well as economic, sociological research, etc. Traditionally, the measurement of SWB relies on time-consuming and costly self-report questionnaires. Nowadays, people are motivated to s...
computer science
36,504
Belief-Rule-Based Expert Systems for Evaluation of E- Government: A Case Study
cs.AI
Little knowledge exists on the impact and results associated with e-government projects in many specific use domains. Therefore it is necessary to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of e-government systems. Since the development of e-government is a continuous process of improvement, it requires continuous evalu...
computer science
36,505
Enhancing Automated Decision Support across Medical and Oral Health Domains with Semantic Web Technologies
cs.AI
Research has shown that the general health and oral health of an individual are closely related. Accordingly, current practice of isolating the information base of medical and oral health domains can be dangerous and detrimental to the health of the individual. However, technical issues such as heterogeneous data colle...
computer science
36,506
LTLf and LDLf Monitoring: A Technical Report
cs.AI
Runtime monitoring is one of the central tasks to provide operational decision support to running business processes, and check on-the-fly whether they comply with constraints and rules. We study runtime monitoring of properties expressed in LTL on finite traces (LTLf) and in its extension LDLf. LDLf is a powerful logi...
computer science