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Top-k Query Answering in Datalog+/- Ontologies under Subjective Reports (Technical Report)
cs.AI
The use of preferences in query answering, both in traditional databases and in ontology-based data access, has recently received much attention, due to its many real-world applications. In this paper, we tackle the problem of top-k query answering in Datalog+/- ontologies subject to the querying user's preferences and...
computer science
36,708
Characterizing and Extending Answer Set Semantics using Possibility Theory
cs.AI
Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a popular framework for modeling combinatorial problems. However, ASP cannot easily be used for reasoning about uncertain information. Possibilistic ASP (PASP) is an extension of ASP that combines possibilistic logic and ASP. In PASP a weight is associated with each rule, where this weig...
computer science
36,709
A semi-automatic semantic method for mapping SNOMED CT concepts to VCM Icons
cs.AI
VCM (Visualization of Concept in Medicine) is an iconic language for representing key medical concepts by icons. However, the use of this language with reference terminologies, such as SNOMED CT, will require the mapping of its icons to the terms of these terminologies. Here, we present and evaluate a semi-automatic se...
computer science
36,710
High Throughput Virtual Screening with Data Level Parallelism in Multi-core Processors
cs.AI
Improving the throughput of molecular docking, a computationally intensive phase of the virtual screening process, is a highly sought area of research since it has a significant weight in the drug designing process. With such improvements, the world might find cures for incurable diseases like HIV disease and Cancer so...
computer science
36,711
A Novel Hierarchical Ant based QoS aware Intelligent Routing Scheme for MANETS
cs.NI
MANET is a collection of mobile devices with no centralized control and no pre-existing infrastructures. Due to the nodal mobility, supporting QoS during routing in this type of networks is a very challenging task. To tackle this type of overhead many routing algorithms with clustering approach have been proposed. Clus...
computer science
36,712
A state vector algebra for algorithmic implementation of second-order logic
cs.AI
We present a mathematical framework for mapping second-order logic relations onto a simple state vector algebra. Using this algebra, basic theorems of set theory can be proven in an algorithmic way, hence by an expert system. We illustrate the use of the algebra with simple examples and show that, in principle, all the...
computer science
36,713
Representing Knowledge Base into Database for WAP and Web-based Expert System
cs.AI
Expert System is developed as consulting service for users spread or public requires affordable access. The Internet has become a medium for such services, but presence of mobile devices make the access becomes more widespread by utilizing mobile web and WAP (Wireless Application Protocol). Applying expert systems appl...
computer science
36,714
A Review of Temporal Aspects of Hand Gesture Analysis Applied to Discourse Analysis and Natural Conversation
cs.HC
Lately, there has been an increasing interest in hand gesture analysis systems. Recent works have employed pattern recognition techniques and have focused on the development of systems with more natural user interfaces. These systems may use gestures to control interfaces or recognize sign language gestures, which can ...
computer science
36,715
RDF Translator: A RESTful Multi-Format Data Converter for the Semantic Web
cs.DL
The interdisciplinary nature of the Semantic Web and the many projects put forward by the community led to a large number of widely accepted serialization formats for RDF. Most of these RDF syntaxes have been developed out of a necessity to serve specific purposes better than existing ones, e.g. RDFa was proposed as an...
computer science
36,716
Representing, Simulating and Analysing Ho Chi Minh City Tsunami Plan by Means of Process Models
cs.CY
This paper considers the textual plan (guidelines) proposed by People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) to manage earthquake and tsunami, and try to represent it in a more formal way, in order to provide means to simulate, analyse and adapt it. We first present a state of the art about coordination models for d...
computer science
36,717
On the Semantics of Gringo
cs.AI
Input languages of answer set solvers are based on the mathematically simple concept of a stable model. But many useful constructs available in these languages, including local variables, conditional literals, and aggregates, cannot be easily explained in terms of stable models in the sense of the original definition o...
computer science
36,718
Fair assignment of indivisible objects under ordinal preferences
cs.GT
We consider the discrete assignment problem in which agents express ordinal preferences over objects and these objects are allocated to the agents in a fair manner. We use the stochastic dominance relation between fractional or randomized allocations to systematically define varying notions of proportionality and envy-...
computer science
36,719
The Value Iteration Algorithm is Not Strongly Polynomial for Discounted Dynamic Programming
cs.AI
This note provides a simple example demonstrating that, if exact computations are allowed, the number of iterations required for the value iteration algorithm to find an optimal policy for discounted dynamic programming problems may grow arbitrarily quickly with the size of the problem. In particular, the number of ite...
computer science
36,720
Modeling contaminant intrusion in water distribution networks based on D numbers
cs.AI
Efficient modeling on uncertain information plays an important role in estimating the risk of contaminant intrusion in water distribution networks. Dempster-Shafer evidence theory is one of the most commonly used methods. However, the Dempster-Shafer evidence theory has some hypotheses including the exclusive property ...
computer science
36,721
Reasoning about Knowledge and Strategies: Epistemic Strategy Logic
cs.LO
In this paper we introduce Epistemic Strategy Logic (ESL), an extension of Strategy Logic with modal operators for individual knowledge. This enhanced framework allows us to represent explicitly and to reason about the knowledge agents have of their own and other agents' strategies. We provide a semantics to ESL in ter...
computer science
36,722
A Resolution Prover for Coalition Logic
cs.LO
We present a prototype tool for automated reasoning for Coalition Logic, a non-normal modal logic that can be used for reasoning about cooperative agency. The theorem prover CLProver is based on recent work on a resolution-based calculus for Coalition Logic that operates on coalition problems, a normal form for Coaliti...
computer science
36,723
Enabling Automatic Certification of Online Auctions
cs.LO
We consider the problem of building up trust in a network of online auctions by software agents. This requires agents to have a deeper understanding of auction mechanisms and be able to verify desirable properties of a given mechanism. We have shown how these mechanisms can be formalised as semantic web services in OWL...
computer science
36,724
On a correlational clustering of integers
math.NT
Correlation clustering is a concept of machine learning. The ultimate goal of such a clustering is to find a partition with minimal conflicts. In this paper we investigate a correlation clustering of integers, based upon the greatest common divisor.
computer science
36,725
Implementing Anti-Unification Modulo Equational Theory
cs.LO
We present an implementation of E-anti-unification as defined in Heinz (1995), where tree-grammar descriptions of equivalence classes of terms are used to compute generalizations modulo equational theories. We discuss several improvements, including an efficient implementation of variable-restricted E-anti-unification ...
computer science
36,726
Thou Shalt is not You Will
cs.AI
In this paper we discuss some reasons why temporal logic might not be suitable to model real life norms. To show this, we present a novel deontic logic contrary-to-duty/derived permission paradox based on the interaction of obligations, permissions and contrary-to-duty obligations. The paradox is inspired by real life ...
computer science
36,727
Outer-Product Hidden Markov Model and Polyphonic MIDI Score Following
cs.AI
We present a polyphonic MIDI score-following algorithm capable of following performances with arbitrary repeats and skips, based on a probabilistic model of musical performances. It is attractive in practical applications of score following to handle repeats and skips which may be made arbitrarily during performances, ...
computer science
36,728
A Stochastic Temporal Model of Polyphonic MIDI Performance with Ornaments
cs.AI
We study indeterminacies in realization of ornaments and how they can be incorporated in a stochastic performance model applicable for music information processing such as score-performance matching. We point out the importance of temporal information, and propose a hidden Markov model which describes it explicitly and...
computer science
36,729
Distribution-Aware Sampling and Weighted Model Counting for SAT
cs.AI
Given a CNF formula and a weight for each assignment of values to variables, two natural problems are weighted model counting and distribution-aware sampling of satisfying assignments. Both problems have a wide variety of important applications. Due to the inherent complexity of the exact versions of the problems, inte...
computer science
36,730
Datalog Rewritability of Disjunctive Datalog Programs and its Applications to Ontology Reasoning
cs.AI
We study the problem of rewriting a disjunctive datalog program into plain datalog. We show that a disjunctive program is rewritable if and only if it is equivalent to a linear disjunctive program, thus providing a novel characterisation of datalog rewritability. Motivated by this result, we propose weakly linear disju...
computer science
36,731
On Backdoors To Tractable Constraint Languages
cs.AI
In the context of CSPs, a strong backdoor is a subset of variables such that every complete assignment yields a residual instance guaranteed to have a specified property. If the property allows efficient solving, then a small strong backdoor provides a reasonable decomposition of the original instance into easy instanc...
computer science
36,732
Managing Change in Graph-structured Data Using Description Logics (long version with appendix)
cs.AI
In this paper, we consider the setting of graph-structured data that evolves as a result of operations carried out by users or applications. We study different reasoning problems, which range from ensuring the satisfaction of a given set of integrity constraints after a given sequence of updates, to deciding the (non-)...
computer science
36,733
Automated Classification of Airborne Laser Scanning Point Clouds
cs.CE
Making sense of the physical world has always been at the core of mapping. Up until recently, this has always dependent on using the human eye. Using airborne lasers, it has become possible to quickly "see" more of the world in many more dimensions. The resulting enormous point clouds serve as data sources for applicat...
computer science
36,734
A Complete Solver for Constraint Games
cs.GT
Game Theory studies situations in which multiple agents having conflicting objectives have to reach a collective decision. The question of a compact representation language for agents utility function is of crucial importance since the classical representation of a $n$-players game is given by a $n$-dimensional matrix ...
computer science
36,735
Hybrid Genetic Algorithm for Cloud Computing Applications
cs.DC
In this paper with the aid of genetic algorithm and fuzzy theory, we present a hybrid job scheduling approach, which considers the load balancing of the system and reduces total execution time and execution cost. We try to modify the standard Genetic algorithm and to reduce the iteration of creating population with the...
computer science
36,736
A Formal Analysis of Required Cooperation in Multi-agent Planning
cs.AI
Research on multi-agent planning has been popular in recent years. While previous research has been motivated by the understanding that, through cooperation, multi-agent systems can achieve tasks that are unachievable by single-agent systems, there are no formal characterizations of situations where cooperation is requ...
computer science
36,737
Modeling multi-stage decision optimization problems
math.OC
Multi-stage optimization under uncertainty techniques can be used to solve long-term management problems. Although many optimization modeling language extensions as well as computational environments have been proposed, the acceptance of this technique is generally low, due to the inherent complexity of the modeling an...
computer science
36,738
Gradual Classical Logic for Attributed Objects
cs.AI
There is knowledge. There is belief. And there is tacit agreement.' 'We may talk about objects. We may talk about attributes of the objects. Or we may talk both about objects and their attributes.' This work inspects tacit agreements on assumptions about the relation between objects and their attributes, and studies a ...
computer science
36,739
Belief merging within fragments of propositional logic
cs.AI
Recently, belief change within the framework of fragments of propositional logic has gained increasing attention. Previous works focused on belief contraction and belief revision on the Horn fragment. However, the problem of belief merging within fragments of propositional logic has been neglected so far. This paper pr...
computer science
36,740
Une approche CSP pour l'aide à la localisation d'erreurs
cs.AI
We introduce in this paper a new CP-based approach to support errors location in a program for which a counter-example is available, i.e. an instantiation of the input variables that violates the post-condition. To provide helpful information for error location, we generate a constraint system for the paths of the CFG ...
computer science
36,741
Generalizing Modular Logic Programs
cs.AI
Even though modularity has been studied extensively in conventional logic programming, there are few approaches on how to incorporate modularity into Answer Set Programming, a prominent rule-based declarative programming paradigm. A major approach is Oikarinnen and Janhunen's Gaifman-Shapiro-style architecture of progr...
computer science
36,742
An Approach to Forgetting in Disjunctive Logic Programs that Preserves Strong Equivalence
cs.AI
In this paper we investigate forgetting in disjunctive logic programs, where forgetting an atom from a program amounts to a reduction in the signature of that program. The goal is to provide an approach that is syntax-independent, in that if two programs are strongly equivalent, then the results of forgetting an atom i...
computer science
36,743
Decision-theoretic approaches to non-knowledge in economics
cs.AI
We review two strands of conceptual approaches to the formal representation of a decision maker's non-knowledge at the initial stage of a static one-person, one-shot decision problem in economic theory. One focuses on representations of non-knowledge in terms of probability measures over sets of mutually exclusive and ...
computer science
36,744
Fuzzy Model on Human Emotions Recognition
cs.AI
This paper discusses a fuzzy model for multi-level human emotions recognition by computer systems through keyboard keystrokes, mouse and touchscreen interactions. This model can also be used to detect the other possible emotions at the time of recognition. Accuracy measurements of human emotions by the fuzzy model are ...
computer science
36,745
A Coordinated MDP Approach to Multi-Agent Planning for Resource Allocation, with Applications to Healthcare
cs.AI
This paper considers a novel approach to scalable multiagent resource allocation in dynamic settings. We propose an approximate solution in which each resource consumer is represented by an independent MDP-based agent that models expected utility using an average model of its expected access to resources given only lim...
computer science
36,746
A New Rational Algorithm for View Updating in Relational Databases
cs.AI
The dynamics of belief and knowledge is one of the major components of any autonomous system that should be able to incorporate new pieces of information. In order to apply the rationality result of belief dynamics theory to various practical problems, it should be generalized in two respects: first it should allow a c...
computer science
36,747
Abduction and Dialogical Proof in Argumentation and Logic Programming
cs.AI
We develop a model of abduction in abstract argumentation, where changes to an argumentation framework act as hypotheses to explain the support of an observation. We present dialogical proof theories for the main decision problems (i.e., finding hypothe- ses that explain skeptical/credulous support) and we show that ou...
computer science
36,748
Strategy Synthesis for General Deductive Games Based on SAT Solving
cs.AI
We propose a general framework for modelling and solving deductive games, where one player selects a secret code and the other player strives to discover this code using a minimal number of allowed experiments that reveal some partial information about the code. The framework is implemented in a software tool Cobra, an...
computer science
36,749
Data Assimilation by Artificial Neural Networks for an Atmospheric General Circulation Model: Conventional Observation
cs.AI
This paper presents an approach for employing artificial neural networks (NN) to emulate an ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) as a method of data assimilation. The assimilation methods are tested in the Simplified Parameterizations PrimitivE-Equation Dynamics (SPEEDY) model, an atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM),...
computer science
36,750
Virus Detection in Multiplexed Nanowire Arrays using Hidden Semi-Markov models
cs.AI
In this paper, we address the problem of real-time detection of viruses docking to nanowires, especially when multiple viruses dock to the same nano-wire. The task becomes more complicated when there is an array of nanowires coated with different antibodies, where different viruses can dock to each coated nanowire at d...
computer science
36,751
Consistent transformations of belief functions
cs.AI
Consistent belief functions represent collections of coherent or non-contradictory pieces of evidence, but most of all they are the counterparts of consistent knowledge bases in belief calculus. The use of consistent transformations cs[.] in a reasoning process to guarantee coherence can therefore be desirable, and gen...
computer science
36,752
Market Making with Decreasing Utility for Information
cs.GT
We study information elicitation in cost-function-based combinatorial prediction markets when the market maker's utility for information decreases over time. In the sudden revelation setting, it is known that some piece of information will be revealed to traders, and the market maker wishes to prevent guaranteed profit...
computer science
36,753
MONEYBaRL: Exploiting pitcher decision-making using Reinforcement Learning
cs.AI
This manuscript uses machine learning techniques to exploit baseball pitchers' decision making, so-called "Baseball IQ," by modeling the at-bat information, pitch selection and counts, as a Markov Decision Process (MDP). Each state of the MDP models the pitcher's current pitch selection in a Markovian fashion, conditio...
computer science
36,754
Team Behavior in Interactive Dynamic Influence Diagrams with Applications to Ad Hoc Teams
cs.MA
Planning for ad hoc teamwork is challenging because it involves agents collaborating without any prior coordination or communication. The focus is on principled methods for a single agent to cooperate with others. This motivates investigating the ad hoc teamwork problem in the context of individual decision making fram...
computer science
36,755
Friendly Artificial Intelligence: the Physics Challenge
cs.CY
Relentless progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly raising concerns that machines will replace humans on the job market, and perhaps altogether. Eliezer Yudkowski and others have explored the possibility that a promising future for humankind could be guaranteed by a superintelligent "Friendly AI", desi...
computer science
36,756
Deontic modality based on preference
cs.LO
Deontic modalities are here defined in terms of the preference relation explored in our previous work (Osherson and Weinstein, 2012). Some consequences of the system are discussed.
computer science
36,757
Unsynthesizable Cores - Minimal Explanations for Unsynthesizable High-Level Robot Behaviors
cs.RO
With the increasing ubiquity of multi-capable, general-purpose robots arises the need for enabling non-expert users to command these robots to perform complex high-level tasks. To this end, high-level robot control has seen the application of formal methods to automatically synthesize correct-by-construction controller...
computer science
36,758
Co-adaptation in a Handwriting Recognition System
cs.HC
Handwriting is a natural and versatile method for human-computer interaction, especially on small mobile devices such as smart phones. However, as handwriting varies significantly from person to person, it is difficult to design handwriting recognizers that perform well for all users. A natural solution is to use machi...
computer science
36,759
Probabilistic Selection in AgentSpeak(L)
cs.MA
Agent programming is mostly a symbolic discipline and, as such, draws little benefits from probabilistic areas as machine learning and graphical models. However, the greatest objective of agent research is the achievement of autonomy in dynamical and complex environments --- a goal that implies embracing uncertainty an...
computer science
36,760
Crowdsourcing Pareto-Optimal Object Finding by Pairwise Comparisons
cs.AI
This is the first study on crowdsourcing Pareto-optimal object finding, which has applications in public opinion collection, group decision making, and information exploration. Departing from prior studies on crowdsourcing skyline and ranking queries, it considers the case where objects do not have explicit attributes ...
computer science
36,761
ICE: Enabling Non-Experts to Build Models Interactively for Large-Scale Lopsided Problems
cs.AI
Quick interaction between a human teacher and a learning machine presents numerous benefits and challenges when working with web-scale data. The human teacher guides the machine towards accomplishing the task of interest. The learning machine leverages big data to find examples that maximize the training value of its i...
computer science
36,762
A Tabu Search Algorithm for the Multi-period Inspector Scheduling Problem
cs.AI
This paper introduces a multi-period inspector scheduling problem (MPISP), which is a new variant of the multi-trip vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW). In the MPISP, each inspector is scheduled to perform a route in a given multi-period planning horizon. At the end of each period, each inspector is not r...
computer science
36,763
Solving Graph Coloring Problems with Abstraction and Symmetry
cs.AI
This paper introduces a general methodology, based on abstraction and symmetry, that applies to solve hard graph edge-coloring problems and demonstrates its use to provide further evidence that the Ramsey number $R(4,3,3)=30$. The number $R(4,3,3)$ is often presented as the unknown Ramsey number with the best chances o...
computer science
36,764
Oblivious Bounds on the Probability of Boolean Functions
cs.AI
This paper develops upper and lower bounds for the probability of Boolean functions by treating multiple occurrences of variables as independent and assigning them new individual probabilities. We call this approach dissociation and give an exact characterization of optimal oblivious bounds, i.e. when the new probabili...
computer science
36,765
Neighborhood Selection and Rules Identification for Cellular Automata: A Rough Sets Approach
cs.AI
In this paper a method is proposed which uses data mining techniques based on rough sets theory to select neighborhood and determine update rule for cellular automata (CA). According to the proposed approach, neighborhood is detected by reducts calculations and a rule-learning algorithm is applied to induce a set of de...
computer science
36,766
The Application of Differential Privacy for Rank Aggregation: Privacy and Accuracy
cs.AI
The potential risk of privacy leakage prevents users from sharing their honest opinions on social platforms. This paper addresses the problem of privacy preservation if the query returns the histogram of rankings. The framework of differential privacy is applied to rank aggregation. The error probability of the aggrega...
computer science
36,767
Causal Graph Justifications of Logic Programs
cs.AI
In this work we propose a multi-valued extension of logic programs under the stable models semantics where each true atom in a model is associated with a set of justifications. These justifications are expressed in terms of causal graphs formed by rule labels and edges that represent their application ordering. For pos...
computer science
36,768
PinView: Implicit Feedback in Content-Based Image Retrieval
cs.IR
This paper describes PinView, a content-based image retrieval system that exploits implicit relevance feedback collected during a search session. PinView contains several novel methods to infer the intent of the user. From relevance feedback, such as eye movements or pointer clicks, and visual features of images, PinVi...
computer science
36,769
Presence-absence reasoning for evolutionary phenotypes
cs.AI
Nearly invariably, phenotypes are reported in the scientific literature in meticulous detail, utilizing the full expressivity of natural language. Often it is particularly these detailed observations (facts) that are of interest, and thus specific to the research questions that motivated observing and reporting them. H...
computer science
36,770
Certified Connection Tableaux Proofs for HOL Light and TPTP
cs.LO
In the recent years, the Metis prover based on ordered paramodulation and model elimination has replaced the earlier built-in methods for general-purpose proof automation in HOL4 and Isabelle/HOL. In the annual CASC competition, the leanCoP system based on connection tableaux has however performed better than Metis. In...
computer science
36,771
The Tomaco Hybrid Matching Framework for SAWSDL Semantic Web Services
cs.SE
This work aims to resolve issues related to Web Service retrieval, also known as Service Selection, Discovery or essentially Matching, in two directions. Firstly, a novel matching algorithm for SAWSDL is introduced. The algorithm is hybrid in nature, combining novel and known concepts, such as a logic-based strategy an...
computer science
36,772
Log-Optimal Portfolio Selection Using the Blackwell Approachability Theorem
cs.AI
We present a method for constructing the log-optimal portfolio using the well-calibrated forecasts of market values. Dawid's notion of calibration and the Blackwell approachability theorem are used for computing well-calibrated forecasts. We select a portfolio using this "artificial" probability distribution of market ...
computer science
36,773
The Quantum Nature of Identity in Human Thought: Bose-Einstein Statistics for Conceptual Indistinguishability
cs.AI
Increasing experimental evidence shows that humans combine concepts in a way that violates the rules of classical logic and probability theory. On the other hand, mathematical models inspired by the formalism of quantum theory are in accordance with data on concepts and their combinations. In this paper, we investigate...
computer science
36,774
Efficient optimisation of structures using tabu search
cs.CE
This paper presents a novel approach to the optimisation of structures using a Tabu search (TS) method. TS is a metaheuristic which is used to guide local search methods towards a globally optimal solution by using flexible memory cycles of differing time spans. Results are presented for the well established ten bar tr...
computer science
36,775
A Statistical Decision-Theoretic Framework for Social Choice
cs.AI
In this paper, we take a statistical decision-theoretic viewpoint on social choice, putting a focus on the decision to be made on behalf of a system of agents. In our framework, we are given a statistical ranking model, a decision space, and a loss function defined on (parameter, decision) pairs, and formulate social c...
computer science
36,776
Tasks that Require, or can Benefit from, Matching Blank Nodes
cs.AI
In various domains and cases, we observe the creation and usage of information elements which are unnamed. Such elements do not have a name, or may have a name that is not externally referable (usually meaningless and not persistent over time). This paper discusses why we will never `escape' from the problem of having ...
computer science
36,777
How Many Workers to Ask? Adaptive Exploration for Collecting High Quality Labels
cs.AI
Crowdsourcing has been part of the IR toolbox as a cheap and fast mechanism to obtain labels for system development and evaluation. Successful deployment of crowdsourcing at scale involves adjusting many variables, a very important one being the number of workers needed per human intelligence task (HIT). We consider th...
computer science
36,778
On the read-once property of branching programs and CNFs of bounded treewidth
cs.CC
In this paper we prove a space lower bound of $n^{\Omega(k)}$ for non-deterministic (syntactic) read-once branching programs ({\sc nrobp}s) on functions expressible as {\sc cnf}s with treewidth at most $k$ of their primal graphs. This lower bound rules out the possibility of fixed-parameter space complexity of {\sc nro...
computer science
36,779
Approximate Counting in SMT and Value Estimation for Probabilistic Programs
cs.LO
#SMT, or model counting for logical theories, is a well-known hard problem that generalizes such tasks as counting the number of satisfying assignments to a Boolean formula and computing the volume of a polytope. In the realm of satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) there is a growing need for model counting solvers, co...
computer science
36,780
A Multi-Heuristic Approach for Solving the Pre-Marshalling Problem
cs.AI
Minimizing the number of reshuffling operations at maritime container terminals incorporates the Pre-Marshalling Problem (PMP) as an important problem. Based on an analysis of existing solution approaches we develop new heuristics utilizing specific properties of problem instances of the PMP. We show that the heuristic...
computer science
36,781
Learning of Agent Capability Models with Applications in Multi-agent Planning
cs.AI
One important challenge for a set of agents to achieve more efficient collaboration is for these agents to maintain proper models of each other. An important aspect of these models of other agents is that they are often partial and incomplete. Thus far, there are two common representations of agent models: MDP based an...
computer science
36,782
Scalable Parallel Numerical CSP Solver
cs.AI
We present a parallel solver for numerical constraint satisfaction problems (NCSPs) that can scale on a number of cores. Our proposed method runs worker solvers on the available cores and simultaneously the workers cooperate for the search space distribution and balancing. In the experiments, we attained up to 119-fold...
computer science
36,783
Hardware and Software manual for Evolution of Oil Droplets in a Chemo-Robotic Platform
cs.RO
This manual outlines a fully automated liquid handling robot to enable physically-embodied evolution within a chemical oil-droplet system. The robot is based upon the REPRAP3D printer system and makes the droplets by mixing chemicals and then placing them in a petri dish after which they are recorded using a camera and...
computer science
36,784
Estimating Fire Weather Indices via Semantic Reasoning over Wireless Sensor Network Data Streams
cs.CY
Wildfires are frequent, devastating events in Australia that regularly cause significant loss of life and widespread property damage. Fire weather indices are a widely-adopted method for measuring fire danger and they play a significant role in issuing bushfire warnings and in anticipating demand for bushfire managemen...
computer science
36,785
Exploiting Parallelism for Hard Problems in Abstract Argumentation: Technical Report
cs.AI
Abstract argumentation framework (\AFname) is a unifying framework able to encompass a variety of nonmonotonic reasoning approaches, logic programming and computational argumentation. Yet, efficient approaches for most of the decision and enumeration problems associated to \AFname s are missing, thus potentially limiti...
computer science
36,786
Logical Limitations to Machine Ethics with Consequences to Lethal Autonomous Weapons
cs.CY
Lethal Autonomous Weapons promise to revolutionize warfare -- and raise a multitude of ethical and legal questions. It has thus been suggested to program values and principles of conduct (such as the Geneva Conventions) into the machines' control, thereby rendering them both physically and morally superior to human com...
computer science
36,787
On Sparse Discretization for Graphical Games
cs.AI
This short paper concerns discretization schemes for representing and computing approximate Nash equilibria, with emphasis on graphical games, but briefly touching on normal-form and poly-matrix games. The main technical contribution is a representation theorem that informally states that to account for every exact Nas...
computer science
36,788
A Unified View of Large-scale Zero-sum Equilibrium Computation
cs.AI
The task of computing approximate Nash equilibria in large zero-sum extensive-form games has received a tremendous amount of attention due mainly to the Annual Computer Poker Competition. Immediately after its inception, two competing and seemingly different approaches emerged---one an application of no-regret online l...
computer science
36,789
Can we build a conscious machine?
cs.ET
The underlying physiological mechanisms of generating conscious states are still unknown. To make progress on the problem of consciousness, we will need to experimentally design a system that evolves in a similar way our brains do. Recent experimental data show that the multiscale nature of the evolving human brain can...
computer science
36,790
Ontology Module Extraction via Datalog Reasoning
cs.AI
Module extraction - the task of computing a (preferably small) fragment M of an ontology T that preserves entailments over a signature S - has found many applications in recent years. Extracting modules of minimal size is, however, computationally hard, and often algorithmically infeasible. Thus, practical techniques a...
computer science
36,791
HCRS: A hybrid clothes recommender system based on user ratings and product features
cs.AI
Nowadays, online clothes-selling business has become popular and extremely attractive because of its convenience and cheap-and-fine price. Good examples of these successful Web sites include Yintai.com, Vancl.com and Shop.vipshop.com which provide thousands of clothes for online shoppers. The challenge for online shopp...
computer science
36,792
Some Reflections on the Set-based and the Conditional-based Interpretations of Statements in Syllogistic Reasoning
cs.AI
Two interpretations about syllogistic statements are described in this paper. One is the so-called set-based interpretation, which assumes that quantified statements and syllogisms talk about quantity-relationships between sets. The other one, the so-called conditional interpretation, assumes that quantified propositio...
computer science
36,793
Canonical Logic Programs are Succinctly Incomparable with Propositional Formulas
cs.LO
\emph{Canonical (logic) programs} (CP) refer to normal logic programs augmented with connective $not\ not$. In this paper we address the question of whether CP are \emph{succinctly incomparable} with \emph{propositional formulas} (PF). Our main result shows that the PARITY problem, which can be polynomially represented...
computer science
36,794
RoboBrain: Large-Scale Knowledge Engine for Robots
cs.AI
In this paper we introduce a knowledge engine, which learns and shares knowledge representations, for robots to carry out a variety of tasks. Building such an engine brings with it the challenge of dealing with multiple data modalities including symbols, natural language, haptic senses, robot trajectories, visual featu...
computer science
36,795
Expressiveness of Logic Programs under General Stable Model Semantics
cs.AI
The stable model semantics had been recently generalized to non-Herbrand structures by several works, which provides a unified framework and solid logical foundations for answer set programming. This paper focuses on the expressiveness of normal and disjunctive programs under the general stable model semantics. A trans...
computer science
36,796
A CSP implementation of the bigraph embedding problem
cs.LO
A crucial problem for many results and tools about bigraphs and bigraphical reactive systems is bigraph embedding. An embedding is more informative than a bigraph matching, since it keeps track of the correspondence between the various components of the redex (guest) within the agent (host). In this paper, we present a...
computer science
36,797
Approximate Lifted Inference with Probabilistic Databases
cs.DB
This paper proposes a new approach for approximate evaluation of #P-hard queries with probabilistic databases. In our approach, every query is evaluated entirely in the database engine by evaluating a fixed number of query plans, each providing an upper bound on the true probability, then taking their minimum. We provi...
computer science
36,798
Knowledge, Justification, and Reason-Based Belief
cs.LO
Is knowledge definable as justified true belief ("JTB")? We argue that one can legitimately answer positively or negatively, depending on how the notion of justification is understood. To facilitate our argument, we introduce a simple propositional logic of reason-based belief. We show that this logic is sufficiently f...
computer science
36,799
Possible and Necessary Allocations via Sequential Mechanisms
cs.AI
A simple mechanism for allocating indivisible resources is sequential allocation in which agents take turns to pick items. We focus on possible and necessary allocation problems, checking whether allocations of a given form occur in some or all mechanisms for several commonly used classes of sequential allocation mecha...
computer science
36,800
On the Behavioural Formalization of the Cognitive Middleware AWDRAT
cs.AI
We present our ongoing work and initial results towards the (behavioral) correctness analysis of the cognitive middleware AWDRAT. Since, the (provable) behavioral correctness of a software system is a fundamental pre-requisite of the system's security. Therefore, the goal of the work is to first formalize the behaviora...
computer science
36,801
Plan or not: Remote Human-robot Teaming with Incomplete Task Information
cs.AI
Human-robot interaction can be divided into two categories based on the physical distance between the human and robot: remote and proximal. In proximal interaction, the human and robot often engage in close coordination; in remote interaction, the human and robot are less coupled due to communication constraints. As a ...
computer science
36,802
Computoser - rule-based, probability-driven algorithmic music composition
cs.AI
This paper presents the Computoser hybrid probability/rule based algorithm for music composition (http://computoser.com) and provides a reference implementation. It addresses the issues of unpleasantness and lack of variation exhibited by many existing approaches by combining the two methods (basing the parameters of t...
computer science
36,803
A tool for implementation of a domain model based on fuzzy relationships
cs.CY
The domain model is one of the important components used by adaptive learning systems to automatically generate customized courses for the learners. In this paper our contribution is to propose a new tool for implementation of a domain model based on fuzzy relationships among concepts. This tool allows the experts and ...
computer science
36,804
Worst-case Optimal Query Answering for Greedy Sets of Existential Rules and Their Subclasses
cs.AI
The need for an ontological layer on top of data, associated with advanced reasoning mechanisms able to exploit the semantics encoded in ontologies, has been acknowledged both in the database and knowledge representation communities. We focus in this paper on the ontological query answering problem, which consists of q...
computer science
36,805
Belief as Willingness to Bet
cs.LO
We investigate modal logics of high probability having two unary modal operators: an operator $K$ expressing probabilistic certainty and an operator $B$ expressing probability exceeding a fixed rational threshold $c\geq\frac 12$. Identifying knowledge with the former and belief with the latter, we may think of $c$ as t...
computer science
36,806
Combinatorial Structure of the Deterministic Seriation Method with Multiple Subset Solutions
cs.AI
Seriation methods order a set of descriptions given some criterion (e.g., unimodality or minimum distance between similarity scores). Seriation is thus inherently a problem of finding the optimal solution among a set of permutations of objects. In this short technical note, we review the combinatorial structure of the ...
computer science