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Stochastic Global Optimization Algorithms: A Systematic Formal Approach
cs.AI
As we know, some global optimization problems cannot be solved using analytic methods, so numeric/algorithmic approaches are used to find near to the optimal solutions for them. A stochastic global optimization algorithm (SGoal) is an iterative algorithm that generates a new population (a set of candidate solutions) fr...
computer science
37,408
Can Computers overcome Humans? Consciousness interaction and its implications
cs.AI
Can computers overcome human capabilities? This is a paradoxical and controversial question, particularly because there are many hidden assumptions. This article focuses on that issue putting on evidence some misconception related with future generations of machines and the understanding of the brain. It will be discus...
computer science
37,409
Dynamic Discovery of Type Classes and Relations in Semantic Web Data
cs.DB
The continuing development of Semantic Web technologies and the increasing user adoption in the recent years have accelerated the progress incorporating explicit semantics with data on the Web. With the rapidly growing RDF (Resource Description Framework) data on the Semantic Web, processing large semantic graph data h...
computer science
37,411
Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment on MOBA Games
cs.AI
This paper addresses the dynamic difficulty adjustment on MOBA games as a way to improve the player's entertainment. Although MOBA is currently one of the most played genres around the world, it is known as a game that offer less autonomy, more challenges and consequently more frustration. Due to these characteristics,...
computer science
37,412
A Tutor Agent for MOBA Games
cs.AI
Digital games have become a key player in the entertainment industry, attracting millions of new players each year. In spite of that, novice players may have a hard time when playing certain types of games, such as MOBAs and MMORPGs, due to their steep learning curves and not so friendly online communities. In this pap...
computer science
37,413
Ethical Artificial Intelligence - An Open Question
cs.AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an effective science which employs strong enough approaches, methods, and techniques to solve unsolvable real world based problems. Because of its unstoppable rise towards the future, there are also some discussions about its ethics and safety. Shaping an AI friendly environment for peop...
computer science
37,414
Towards balanced clustering - part 1 (preliminaries)
cs.DS
The article contains a preliminary glance at balanced clustering problems. Basic balanced structures and combinatorial balanced problems are briefly described. A special attention is targeted to various balance/unbalance indices (including some new versions of the indices): by cluster cardinality, by cluster weights, b...
computer science
37,415
Towards Statistical Reasoning in Description Logics over Finite Domains (Full Version)
cs.AI
We present a probabilistic extension of the description logic $\mathcal{ALC}$ for reasoning about statistical knowledge. We consider conditional statements over proportions of the domain and are interested in the probabilistic-logical consequences of these proportions. After introducing some general reasoning problems ...
computer science
37,416
On Hash-Based Work Distribution Methods for Parallel Best-First Search
cs.AI
Parallel best-first search algorithms such as Hash Distributed A* (HDA*) distribute work among the processes using a global hash function. We analyze the search and communication overheads of state-of-the-art hash-based parallel best-first search algorithms, and show that although Zobrist hashing, the standard hash fun...
computer science
37,417
Learning Large-Scale Topological Maps Using Sum-Product Networks
cs.RO
In order to perform complex actions in human environments, an autonomous robot needs the ability to understand the environment, that is, to gather and maintain spatial knowledge. Topological map is commonly used for representing large scale, global maps such as floor plans. Although much work has been done in topologic...
computer science
37,418
DAC-h3: A Proactive Robot Cognitive Architecture to Acquire and Express Knowledge About the World and the Self
cs.AI
This paper introduces a cognitive architecture for a humanoid robot to engage in a proactive, mixed-initiative exploration and manipulation of its environment, where the initiative can originate from both the human and the robot. The framework, based on a biologically-grounded theory of the brain and mind, integrates a...
computer science
37,419
Recommendations for Marketing Campaigns in Telecommunication Business based on the footprint analysis
cs.AI
A major investment made by a telecom operator goes into the infrastructure and its maintenance, while business revenues are proportional to how big and good the customer base is. We present a data-driven analytic strategy based on combinatorial optimization and analysis of historical data. The data cover historical mob...
computer science
37,420
Technical Report: Implementation and Validation of a Smart Health Application
cs.AI
In this article, we explain in detail the internal structures and databases of a smart health application. Moreover, we describe how to generate a statistically sound synthetic dataset using real-world medical data.
computer science
37,421
Autonomous Reactive Mission Scheduling and Task-Path Planning Architecture for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
cs.RO
An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) should carry out complex tasks in a limited time interval. Since existing AUVs have limited battery capacity and restricted endurance, they should autonomously manage mission time and the resources to perform effective persistent deployment in longer missions. Task assignment requ...
computer science
37,422
Simultaneous merging multiple grid maps using the robust motion averaging
cs.AI
Mapping in the GPS-denied environment is an important and challenging task in the field of robotics. In the large environment, mapping can be significantly accelerated by multiple robots exploring different parts of the environment. Accordingly, a key problem is how to integrate these local maps built by different robo...
computer science
37,423
Learning and Evaluating Musical Features with Deep Autoencoders
cs.SD
In this work we describe and evaluate methods to learn musical embeddings. Each embedding is a vector that represents four contiguous beats of music and is derived from a symbolic representation. We consider autoencoding-based methods including denoising autoencoders, and context reconstruction, and evaluate the result...
computer science
37,424
Learning a visuomotor controller for real world robotic grasping using simulated depth images
cs.RO
We want to build robots that are useful in unstructured real world applications, such as doing work in the household. Grasping in particular is an important skill in this domain, yet it remains a challenge. One of the key hurdles is handling unexpected changes or motion in the objects being grasped and kinematic noise ...
computer science
37,425
Conjunctions of Among Constraints
cs.AI
Many existing global constraints can be encoded as a conjunction of among constraints. An among constraint holds if the number of the variables in its scope whose value belongs to a prespecified set, which we call its range, is within some given bounds. It is known that domain filtering algorithms can benefit from reas...
computer science
37,426
From Propositional Logic to Plausible Reasoning: A Uniqueness Theorem
cs.AI
We consider the question of extending propositional logic to a logic of plausible reasoning, and posit four requirements that any such extension should satisfy. Each is a requirement that some property of classical propositional logic be preserved in the extended logic; as such, the requirements are simpler and less pr...
computer science
37,427
The impact of Entropy and Solution Density on selected SAT heuristics
cs.AI
In a recent article [Oh'15], Oh examined the impact of various key heuristics (e.g., deletion strategy, restart policy, decay factor, database reduction) in competitive SAT solvers. His key findings are that their expected success depends on whether the input formula is satisfiable or not. To further investigate these ...
computer science
37,428
The Complexity of Campaigning
cs.AI
In "The Logic of Campaigning", Dean and Parikh consider a candidate making campaign statements to appeal to the voters. They model these statements as Boolean formulas over variables that represent stances on the issues, and study optimal candidate strategies under three proposed models of voter preferences based on th...
computer science
37,429
Word-Entity Duet Representations for Document Ranking
cs.IR
This paper presents a word-entity duet framework for utilizing knowledge bases in ad-hoc retrieval. In this work, the query and documents are modeled by word-based representations and entity-based representations. Ranking features are generated by the interactions between the two representations, incorporating informat...
computer science
37,430
Toward Real-Time Decentralized Reinforcement Learning using Finite Support Basis Functions
cs.RO
This paper addresses the design and implementation of complex Reinforcement Learning (RL) behaviors where multi-dimensional action spaces are involved, as well as the need to execute the behaviors in real-time using robotic platforms with limited computational resources and training times. For this purpose, we propose ...
computer science
37,431
Combined Task and Motion Planning as Classical AI Planning
cs.RO
Planning in robotics is often split into task and motion planning. The high-level, symbolic task planner decides what needs to be done, while the motion planner checks feasibility and fills up geometric detail. It is known however that such a decomposition is not effective in general as the symbolic and geometrical com...
computer science
37,432
Web-STAR: Towards a Visual Web-Based IDE for a Story Comprehension System
cs.HC
In this work, we present Web-STAR, an online platform for story understanding built on top of the STAR (STory comprehension through ARgumentation) reasoning engine. This platform includes a web-based IDE, integration with the STAR system and a web service infrastructure to support integration with other systems that re...
computer science
37,433
A Framework for Accurate Drought Forecasting System Using Semantics-Based Data Integration Middleware
cs.DB
Technological advancement in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has made it become an invaluable component of a reliable environmental monitoring system; they form the digital skin' through which to 'sense' and collect the context of the surroundings and provides information on the process leading to complex events such as...
computer science
37,434
Inter-Session Modeling for Session-Based Recommendation
cs.IR
In recent years, research has been done on applying Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) as recommender systems. Results have been promising, especially in the session-based setting where RNNs have been shown to outperform state-of-the-art models. In many of these experiments, the RNN could potentially improve the recommen...
computer science
37,435
Finding optimal finite biological sequences over finite alphabets: the OptiFin toolbox
cs.AI
In this paper, we present a toolbox for a specific optimization problem that frequently arises in bioinformatics or genomics. In this specific optimisation problem, the state space is a set of words of specified length over a finite alphabet. To each word is associated a score. The overall objective is to find the word...
computer science
37,436
The Boolean Solution Problem from the Perspective of Predicate Logic - Extended Version
cs.LO
Finding solution values for unknowns in Boolean equations was a principal reasoning mode in the Algebra of Logic of the 19th century. Schr\"oder investigated it as "Aufl\"osungsproblem" ("solution problem"). It is closely related to the modern notion of Boolean unification. Today it is commonly presented in an algebrai...
computer science
37,437
A Simulator for Hedonic Games
cs.MA
Hedonic games are meant to model how coalitions of people form and break apart in the real world. However, it is difficult to run simulations when everything must be done by hand on paper. We present an online software that allows fast and visual simulation of several types of hedonic games. http://lukemiles.org/hedoni...
computer science
37,438
Developing Bug-Free Machine Learning Systems With Formal Mathematics
cs.SE
Noisy data, non-convex objectives, model misspecification, and numerical instability can all cause undesired behaviors in machine learning systems. As a result, detecting actual implementation errors can be extremely difficult. We demonstrate a methodology in which developers use an interactive proof assistant to both ...
computer science
37,439
Strategyproof Mechanisms for Additively Separable Hedonic Games and Fractional Hedonic Games
cs.AI
Additively separable hedonic games and fractional hedonic games have received considerable attention. They are coalition forming games of selfish agents based on their mutual preferences. Most of the work in the literature characterizes the existence and structure of stable outcomes (i.e., partitions in coalitions), as...
computer science
37,440
A Pig, an Angel and a Cactus Walk Into a Blender: A Descriptive Approach to Visual Blending
cs.AI
A descriptive approach for automatic generation of visual blends is presented. The implemented system, the Blender, is composed of two components: the Mapper and the Visual Blender. The approach uses structured visual representations along with sets of visual relations which describe how the elements (in which the visu...
computer science
37,441
Logic Programming for an Introductory Computer Science Course for High School Students
cs.CY
This paper investigates how high school students approach computing through an introductory computer science course situated in the Logic Programming (LP) paradigm. This study shows how novice students operate within the LP paradigm while engaging in foundational computing concepts and skills, and presents a case for L...
computer science
37,442
Path planning for Robotic Mobile Fulfillment Systems
cs.AI
This paper presents a collection of path planning algorithms for real-time movement of multiple robots across a Robotic Mobile Fulfillment System (RMFS). Robots are assigned to move storage units to pickers at working stations instead of requiring pickers to go to the storage area. Path planning algorithms aim to find ...
computer science
37,443
Path Integral Networks: End-to-End Differentiable Optimal Control
cs.AI
In this paper, we introduce Path Integral Networks (PI-Net), a recurrent network representation of the Path Integral optimal control algorithm. The network includes both system dynamics and cost models, used for optimal control based planning. PI-Net is fully differentiable, learning both dynamics and cost models end-t...
computer science
37,444
Speaker Identification in each of the Neutral and Shouted Talking Environments based on Gender-Dependent Approach Using SPHMMs
cs.AI
It is well known that speaker identification performs extremely well in the neutral talking environments; however, the identification performance is declined sharply in the shouted talking environments. This work aims at proposing, implementing and testing a new approach to enhance the declined performance in the shout...
computer science
37,445
New Fairness Metrics for Recommendation that Embrace Differences
cs.CY
We study fairness in collaborative-filtering recommender systems, which are sensitive to discrimination that exists in historical data. Biased data can lead collaborative filtering methods to make unfair predictions against minority groups of users. We identify the insufficiency of existing fairness metrics and propose...
computer science
37,446
Tableaux for Policy Synthesis for MDPs with PCTL* Constraints
cs.LO
Markov decision processes (MDPs) are the standard formalism for modelling sequential decision making in stochastic environments. Policy synthesis addresses the problem of how to control or limit the decisions an agent makes so that a given specification is met. In this paper we consider PCTL*, the probabilistic counter...
computer science
37,447
A reliability-based approach for influence maximization using the evidence theory
cs.SI
The influence maximization is the problem of finding a set of social network users, called influencers, that can trigger a large cascade of propagation. Influencers are very beneficial to make a marketing campaign goes viral through social networks for example. In this paper, we propose an influence measure that combin...
computer science
37,448
Ising Processing Units: Potential and Challenges for Discrete Optimization
math.OC
The recent emergence of novel computational devices, such as adiabatic quantum computers, CMOS annealers, and optical parametric oscillators, presents new opportunities for hybrid-optimization algorithms that leverage these kinds of specialized hardware. In this work, we propose the idea of an Ising processing unit as ...
computer science
37,449
Submodular Function Maximization for Group Elevator Scheduling
cs.AI
We propose a novel approach for group elevator scheduling by formulating it as the maximization of submodular function under a matroid constraint. In particular, we propose to model the total waiting time of passengers using a quadratic Boolean function. The unary and pairwise terms in the function denote the waiting t...
computer science
37,450
A Reverse Hex Solver
cs.AI
We present Solrex,an automated solver for the game of Reverse Hex.Reverse Hex, also known as Rex, or Misere Hex, is the variant of the game of Hex in which the player who joins her two sides loses the game. Solrex performs a mini-max search of the state space using Scalable Parallel Depth First Proof Number Search, enh...
computer science
37,451
Creative Robot Dance with Variational Encoder
cs.AI
What we appreciate in dance is the ability of people to sponta- neously improvise new movements and choreographies, sur- rendering to the music rhythm, being inspired by the cur- rent perceptions and sensations and by previous experiences, deeply stored in their memory. Like other human abilities, this, of course, is c...
computer science
37,452
Methods for finding leader--follower equilibria with multiple followers
cs.GT
The concept of leader--follower (or Stackelberg) equilibrium plays a central role in a number of real--world applications of game theory. While the case with a single follower has been thoroughly investigated, results with multiple followers are only sporadic and the problem of designing and evaluating computationally ...
computer science
37,453
Evaluating Social Networks Using Task-Focused Network Inference
cs.SI
Networks are representations of complex underlying social processes. However, the same given network may be more suitable to model one behavior of individuals than another. In many cases, aggregate population models may be more effective than modeling on the network. We present a general framework for evaluating the su...
computer science
37,454
Armstrong's Axioms and Navigation Strategies
cs.AI
The paper investigates navigability with imperfect information. It shows that the properties of navigability with perfect recall are exactly those captured by Armstrong's axioms from the database theory. If the assumption of perfect recall is omitted, then Armstrong's transitivity axiom is not valid, but it can be repl...
computer science
37,455
Strategic Coalitions with Perfect Recall
cs.AI
The paper proposes a bimodal logic that describes an interplay between distributed knowledge modality and coalition know-how modality. Unlike other similar systems, the one proposed here assumes perfect recall by all agents. Perfect recall is captured in the system by a single axiom. The main technical results are the ...
computer science
37,456
Comparison of Multiple Features and Modeling Methods for Text-dependent Speaker Verification
cs.SD
Text-dependent speaker verification is becoming popular in the speaker recognition society. However, the conventional i-vector framework which has been successful for speaker identification and other similar tasks works relatively poorly in this task. Researchers have proposed several new methods to improve performance...
computer science
37,457
Freeway Merging in Congested Traffic based on Multipolicy Decision Making with Passive Actor Critic
cs.AI
Freeway merging in congested traffic is a significant challenge toward fully automated driving. Merging vehicles need to decide not only how to merge into a spot, but also where to merge. We present a method for the freeway merging based on multi-policy decision making with a reinforcement learning method called {\em p...
computer science
37,458
Online Multi-Armed Bandit
cs.AI
We introduce a novel variant of the multi-armed bandit problem, in which bandits are streamed one at a time to the player, and at each point, the player can either choose to pull the current bandit or move on to the next bandit. Once a player has moved on from a bandit, they may never visit it again, which is a crucial...
computer science
37,459
Latent Relational Metric Learning via Memory-based Attention for Collaborative Ranking
cs.AI
This paper proposes a new neural architecture for collaborative ranking with implicit feedback. Our model, LRML (\textit{Latent Relational Metric Learning}) is a novel metric learning approach for recommendation. More specifically, instead of simple push-pull mechanisms between user and item pairs, we propose to learn ...
computer science
37,460
Computing LPMLN Using ASP and MLN Solvers
cs.AI
LPMLN is a recent addition to probabilistic logic programming languages. Its main idea is to overcome the rigid nature of the stable model semantics by assigning a weight to each rule in a way similar to Markov Logic is defined. We present two implementations of LPMLN, $\text{LPMLN2ASP}$ and $\text{LPMLN2MLN}$. System ...
computer science
37,461
Applying MAPP Algorithm for Cooperative Path Finding in Urban Environments
cs.AI
The paper considers the problem of planning a set of non-conflict trajectories for the coalition of intelligent agents (mobile robots). Two divergent approaches, e.g. centralized and decentralized, are surveyed and analyzed. Decentralized planner - MAPP is described and applied to the task of finding trajectories for d...
computer science
37,462
On the Computation of Paracoherent Answer Sets
cs.LO
Answer Set Programming (ASP) is a well-established formalism for nonmonotonic reasoning. An ASP program can have no answer set due to cyclic default negation. In this case, it is not possible to draw any conclusion, even if this is not intended. Recently, several paracoherent semantics have been proposed that address t...
computer science
37,463
Towards Real-Time Search Planning in Subsea Environments
cs.RO
We address the challenge of computing search paths in real-time for subsea applications where the goal is to locate an unknown number of targets on the seafloor. Our approach maximizes a formal definition of search effectiveness given finite search effort. We account for false positive measurements and variation in the...
computer science
37,464
Evaluation of Semantic Web Technologies for Storing Computable Definitions of Electronic Health Records Phenotyping Algorithms
cs.AI
Electronic Health Records are electronic data generated during or as a byproduct of routine patient care. Structured, semi-structured and unstructured EHR offer researchers unprecedented phenotypic breadth and depth and have the potential to accelerate the development of precision medicine approaches at scale. A main E...
computer science
37,465
Relational Learning and Feature Extraction by Querying over Heterogeneous Information Networks
cs.AI
Many real world systems need to operate on heterogeneous information networks that consist of numerous interacting components of different types. Examples include systems that perform data analysis on biological information networks; social networks; and information extraction systems processing unstructured data to co...
computer science
37,466
Price and Profit Awareness in Recommender Systems
cs.IR
Academic research in the field of recommender systems mainly focuses on the problem of maximizing the users' utility by trying to identify the most relevant items for each user. However, such items are not necessarily the ones that maximize the utility of the service provider (e.g., an online retailer) in terms of the ...
computer science
37,467
Navigability with Imperfect Information
cs.AI
The article studies navigability of an autonomous agent in a maze where some rooms may be indistinguishable. In a previous work the authors have shown that the properties of navigability in such a setting depend on whether an agent has perfect recall. Navigability by an agent with perfect recall is a transitive relatio...
computer science
37,468
The Advantage of Evidential Attributes in Social Networks
cs.AI
Nowadays, there are many approaches designed for the task of detecting communities in social networks. Among them, some methods only consider the topological graph structure, while others take use of both the graph structure and the node attributes. In real-world networks, there are many uncertain and noisy attributes ...
computer science
37,469
Making the best of data derived from a daily practice in clinical legal medicine for research and practice - the example of Spe3dLab
cs.CY
Forensic science suffers from a lack of studies with high-quality design, such as randomized controlled trials (RCT). Evidence in forensic science may be of insufficient quality, which is a major concern. Results from RCT are criticized for providing artificial results that are not useful in real life and unfit for ind...
computer science
37,470
Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence Containment
cs.AI
With almost daily improvements in capabilities of artificial intelligence it is more important than ever to develop safety software for use by the AI research community. Building on our previous work on AI Containment Problem we propose a number of guidelines which should help AI safety researchers to develop reliable ...
computer science
37,471
Common Knowledge in a Logic of Gossips
cs.LO
Gossip protocols aim at arriving, by means of point-to-point or group communications, at a situation in which all the agents know each other secrets. Recently a number of authors studied distributed epistemic gossip protocols. These protocols use as guards formulas from a simple epistemic logic, which makes their analy...
computer science
37,472
A Logic for Global and Local Announcements
cs.LO
In this paper we introduce {\em global and local announcement logic} (GLAL), a dynamic epistemic logic with two distinct announcement operators -- $[\phi]^+_A$ and $[\phi]^-_A$ indexed to a subset $A$ of the set $Ag$ of all agents -- for global and local announcements respectively. The boundary case $[\phi]^+_{Ag}$ cor...
computer science
37,473
Relaxing Exclusive Control in Boolean Games
cs.AI
In the typical framework for boolean games (BG) each player can change the truth value of some propositional atoms, while attempting to make her goal true. In standard BG goals are propositional formulas, whereas in iterated BG goals are formulas of Linear Temporal Logic. Both notions of BG are characterised by the fac...
computer science
37,474
Together We Know How to Achieve: An Epistemic Logic of Know-How (Extended Abstract)
cs.AI
The existence of a coalition strategy to achieve a goal does not necessarily mean that the coalition has enough information to know how to follow the strategy. Neither does it mean that the coalition knows that such a strategy exists. The paper studies an interplay between the distributed knowledge, coalition strategie...
computer science
37,475
Argument-based Belief in Topological Structures
cs.AI
This paper combines two studies: a topological semantics for epistemic notions and abstract argumentation theory. In our combined setting, we use a topological semantics to represent the structure of an agent's collection of evidence, and we use argumentation theory to single out the relevant sets of evidence through w...
computer science
37,476
Reconciling Bayesian Epistemology and Narration-based Approaches to Judiciary Fact-finding
cs.AI
Legal probabilism (LP) claims the degrees of conviction in juridical fact-finding are to be modeled exactly the way degrees of beliefs are modeled in standard bayesian epistemology. Classical legal probabilism (CLP) adds that the conviction is justified if the credence in guilt given the evidence is above an appropriat...
computer science
37,477
A New Modal Framework for Epistemic Logic
cs.AI
Recent years witnessed a growing interest in non-standard epistemic logics of knowing whether, knowing how, knowing what, knowing why and so on. The new epistemic modalities introduced in those logics all share, in their semantics, the general schema of $\exists x \Box \phi$, e.g., knowing how to achieve $\phi$ roughly...
computer science
37,478
Toward the Starting Line: A Systems Engineering Approach to Strong AI
cs.AI
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) or Strong AI aims to create machines with human-like or human-level intelligence, which is still a very ambitious goal when compared to the existing computing and AI systems. After many hype cycles and lessons from AI history, it is clear that a big conceptual leap is needed for cr...
computer science
37,479
Hyperprofile-based Computation Offloading for Mobile Edge Networks
cs.NI
In recent studies, researchers have developed various computation offloading frameworks for bringing cloud services closer to the user via edge networks. Specifically, an edge device needs to offload computationally intensive tasks because of energy and processing constraints. These constraints present the challenge of...
computer science
37,480
Method and apparatus for automatic text input insertion in digital devices with a restricted number of keys
cs.HC
A device which contains number of symbol input keys, where the number of available keys is less than the number of symbols of an alphabet of any given language, screen, and dynamic reordering table of the symbols which are mapped onto those keys, according to a disambiguation method based on the previously entered symb...
computer science
37,481
Developing Knowledge-enhanced Chronic Disease Risk Prediction Models from Regional EHR Repositories
cs.AI
Precision medicine requires the precision disease risk prediction models. In literature, there have been a lot well-established (inter-)national risk models, but when applying them into the local population, the prediction performance becomes unsatisfactory. To address the localization issue, this paper exploits the wa...
computer science
37,482
Helping AI to Play Hearthstone: AAIA'17 Data Mining Challenge
cs.AI
This paper summarizes the AAIA'17 Data Mining Challenge: Helping AI to Play Hearthstone which was held between March 23, and May 15, 2017 at the Knowledge Pit platform. We briefly describe the scope and background of this competition in the context of a more general project related to the development of an AI engine fo...
computer science
37,483
Declarative Statistics
cs.AI
In this work we introduce declarative statistics, a suite of declarative modelling tools for statistical analysis. Statistical constraints represent the key building block of declarative statistics. First, we introduce a range of relevant counting and matrix constraints and associated decompositions, some of which nove...
computer science
37,484
Fake News Detection on Social Media: A Data Mining Perspective
cs.SI
Social media for news consumption is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, its low cost, easy access, and rapid dissemination of information lead people to seek out and consume news from social media. On the other hand, it enables the wide spread of "fake news", i.e., low quality news with intentionally false informat...
computer science
37,485
A Framework for Inferring Causality from Multi-Relational Observational Data using Conditional Independence
cs.DB
The study of causality or causal inference - how much a given treatment causally affects a given outcome in a population - goes way beyond correlation or association analysis of variables, and is critical in making sound data driven decisions and policies in a multitude of applications. The gold standard in causal infe...
computer science
37,486
Robust Computer Algebra, Theorem Proving, and Oracle AI
cs.AI
In the context of superintelligent AI systems, the term "oracle" has two meanings. One refers to modular systems queried for domain-specific tasks. Another usage, referring to a class of systems which may be useful for addressing the value alignment and AI control problems, is a superintelligent AI system that only ans...
computer science
37,487
Role of Secondary Attributes to Boost the Prediction Accuracy of Students Employability Via Data Mining
cs.CY
Data Mining is best-known for its analytical and prediction capabilities. It is used in several areas such as fraud detection, predicting client behavior, money market behavior, bankruptcy prediction. It can also help in establishing an educational ecosystem, which discovers useful knowledge, and assist educators to ta...
computer science
37,488
The Static and Stochastic VRPTW with both random Customers and Reveal Times: algorithms and recourse strategies
cs.AI
Unlike its deterministic counterpart, static and stochastic vehicle routing problems (SS-VRP) aim at modeling and solving real-life operational problems by considering uncertainty on data. We consider the SS-VRPTW-CR introduced in Saint-Guillain et al. (2017). Like the SS-VRP introduced by Bertsimas (1992), we search f...
computer science
37,489
Preference fusion and Condorcet's Paradox under uncertainty
cs.AI
Facing an unknown situation, a person may not be able to firmly elicit his/her preferences over different alternatives, so he/she tends to express uncertain preferences. Given a community of different persons expressing their preferences over certain alternatives under uncertainty, to get a collective representative op...
computer science
37,490
Optimizing Gross Merchandise Volume via DNN-MAB Dynamic Ranking Paradigm
cs.AI
With the transition from people's traditional `brick-and-mortar' shopping to online mobile shopping patterns in web 2.0 $\mathit{era}$, the recommender system plays a critical role in E-Commerce and E-Retails. This is especially true when designing this system for more than $\mathbf{236~million}$ daily active users. Ra...
computer science
37,491
Counterexample Guided Inductive Optimization Applied to Mobile Robots Path Planning (Extended Version)
cs.RO
We describe and evaluate a novel optimization-based off-line path planning algorithm for mobile robots based on the Counterexample-Guided Inductive Optimization (CEGIO) technique. CEGIO iteratively employs counterexamples generated from Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) and Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers, in o...
computer science
37,492
Deep Reinforcement Learning for High Precision Assembly Tasks
cs.RO
High precision assembly of mechanical parts requires accuracy exceeding the robot precision. Conventional part mating methods used in the current manufacturing requires tedious tuning of numerous parameters before deployment. We show how the robot can successfully perform a tight clearance peg-in-hole task through trai...
computer science
37,493
A scalable multi-core architecture with heterogeneous memory structures for Dynamic Neuromorphic Asynchronous Processors (DYNAPs)
cs.AR
Neuromorphic computing systems comprise networks of neurons that use asynchronous events for both computation and communication. This type of representation offers several advantages in terms of bandwidth and power consumption in neuromorphic electronic systems. However, managing the traffic of asynchronous events in l...
computer science
37,494
Motion Planning under Partial Observability using Game-Based Abstraction
cs.RO
We study motion planning problems where agents move inside environments that are not fully observable and subject to uncertainties. The goal is to compute a strategy for an agent that is guaranteed to satisfy certain safety and performance specifications. Such problems are naturally modelled by partially observable Mar...
computer science
37,495
Learning body-affordances to simplify action spaces
cs.AI
Controlling embodied agents with many actuated degrees of freedom is a challenging task. We propose a method that can discover and interpolate between context dependent high-level actions or body-affordances. These provide an abstract, low-dimensional interface indexing high-dimensional and time- extended action polici...
computer science
37,496
Multi-task Neural Network for Non-discrete Attribute Prediction in Knowledge Graphs
cs.AI
Many popular knowledge graphs such as Freebase, YAGO or DBPedia maintain a list of non-discrete attributes for each entity. Intuitively, these attributes such as height, price or population count are able to richly characterize entities in knowledge graphs. This additional source of information may help to alleviate th...
computer science
37,497
Warp: a method for neural network interpretability applied to gene expression profiles
cs.AI
We show a proof of principle for warping, a method to interpret the inner working of neural networks in the context of gene expression analysis. Warping is an efficient way to gain insight to the inner workings of neural nets and make them more interpretable. We demonstrate the ability of warping to recover meaningful ...
computer science
37,498
Human Uncertainty and Ranking Error -- The Secret of Successful Evaluation in Predictive Data Mining
cs.HC
One of the most crucial issues in data mining is to model human behaviour in order to provide personalisation, adaptation and recommendation. This usually involves implicit or explicit knowledge, either by observing user interactions, or by asking users directly. But these sources of information are always subject to t...
computer science
37,499
Software-Defined Robotics -- Idea & Approach
cs.RO
The methodology of Software-Defined Robotics hierarchical-based and stand-alone framework can be designed and implemented to program and control different sets of robots, regardless of their manufacturers' parameters and specifications, with unified commands and communications. This framework approach will increase the...
computer science
37,500
Network Model Selection for Task-Focused Attributed Network Inference
cs.SI
Networks are models representing relationships between entities. Often these relationships are explicitly given, or we must learn a representation which generalizes and predicts observed behavior in underlying individual data (e.g. attributes or labels). Whether given or inferred, choosing the best representation affec...
computer science
37,501
The Continuous Hint Factory - Providing Hints in Vast and Sparsely Populated Edit Distance Spaces
cs.AI
Intelligent tutoring systems can support students in solving multi-step tasks by providing a hint regarding what to do next. However, engineering such next-step hints manually or using an expert model becomes infeasible if the space of possible states is too large. Therefore, several approaches have emerged to infer ne...
computer science
37,502
Software engineering and the SP theory of intelligence
cs.SE
This paper describes a novel approach to software engineering derived from the "SP theory of intelligence" and its realisation in the "SP computer model". These are the bases of a projected industrial-strength "SP machine" which, when mature, is anticipated to be the vehicle for software engineering as described in thi...
computer science
37,503
Capturing Long-term Temporal Dependencies with Convolutional Networks for Continuous Emotion Recognition
cs.SD
The goal of continuous emotion recognition is to assign an emotion value to every frame in a sequence of acoustic features. We show that incorporating long-term temporal dependencies is critical for continuous emotion recognition tasks. To this end, we first investigate architectures that use dilated convolutions. We s...
computer science
37,504
Finding Streams in Knowledge Graphs to Support Fact Checking
cs.AI
The volume and velocity of information that gets generated online limits current journalistic practices to fact-check claims at the same rate. Computational approaches for fact checking may be the key to help mitigate the risks of massive misinformation spread. Such approaches can be designed to not only be scalable an...
computer science
37,505
Area Protection in Adversarial Path-Finding Scenarios with Multiple Mobile Agents on Graphs: a theoretical and experimental study of target-allocation strategies for defense coordination
cs.AI
We address a problem of area protection in graph-based scenarios with multiple agents. The problem consists of two adversarial teams of agents that move in an undirected graph shared by both teams. Agents are placed in vertices of the graph; at most one agent can occupy a vertex; and they can move into adjacent vertice...
computer science
37,506
Achieving Proportional Representation via Voting
cs.GT
Proportional representation (PR) is often discussed in voting settings as a major desideratum. For the past century or so, it is common both in practice and in the academic literature to jump to STV (Single Transferable Vote) as the solution for achieving PR. Some of the most prominent electoral reform movements around...
computer science
37,507
Reinforcement Mechanism Design for e-commerce
cs.MA
We study the problem of allocating impressions to sellers in e-commerce websites, such as Amazon, eBay or Taobao, aiming to maximize the total revenue generated by the platform. We employ a general framework of reinforcement mechanism design, which uses deep reinforcement learning to design efficient algorithms, taking...
computer science