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Home / Proceedings / Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2012) /

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General Conference

  • Invited Talks

    Michael Youngblood

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  • Conference Committees

    Michael Youngblood

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  • Florida AI Research Society

    Michael Youngblood

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  • Preface

    Michael Youngblood, Philip M. McCarthy

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  • Evolving Kernel Functions with Particle Swarms and Genetic Programming

    Michael A. Schuh, Rafal Angryk, John Sheppard

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  • Real-Time Filtering for Pulsing Public Opinion in Social Media

    Samantha Finn, Eni Mustafaraj

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  • Social Influence Modeling for Utility Functions in Model Predictive Control

    Timothy Michael Dockins, Manfred Huber

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  • Iterative-Expansion A*

    Colin M. Potts, Kurt D. Krebsbach

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  • Modeling the Interaction Between Mixed Teams of Humans and Robots and Local Population for a Market Patrol Task

    Saad Ahmad Khan, Taranjeet Singh Bhatia, Shane Parker, Ladislau Boloni

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  • Forecasting Conflicts Using N-Grams Models

    Camille Besse, Alireza Bakhtiari, Luc Lamontagne

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  • AIRS: Anytime Iterative Refinement of a Solution

    Sam John Estrem, Kurt D. Krebsbach

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  • A Heuristic for Hybrid Planning with Preferences

    Pascal Bercher, Susanne Biundo

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  • Instructing a Reinforcement Learner

    Pradyot Korupolu V. N., Manimaran S. Sivamurugan, Balaraman Ravindran

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  • Searching for Better Performance on the King-Rook-King Chess Endgame Problem

    Wayne Iba

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  • Symbol Generation and Grounding for Reinforcement Learning Agents Using Affordances and Dictionary Compression

    Marcus Carlos Oladell, Manfred Huber

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  • A Pruning Based Approach for Scalable Entity Coreference

    Dezhao Song, Jeff Heflin

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  • Robustness and Accuracy Tradeoffs for Recommender Systems Under Attack

    Carlos E. Seminario, David C. Wilson

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  • Semantic Analysis of English Specification of OCL

    Imran Sarwar Bajwa, Mark Lee, Behzad Bordbar

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  • Question Answering in Natural Language Narratives Using Symbolic Probabilistic Reasoning

    Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Erik T. Mueller

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  • Integer Sparse Distributed Memory

    Javier Snaider, Stan Franklin

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  • Reformulating Planning Problems: A Theoretical Point of View

    Lukáš Chrpa, Thomas Leo McCluskey, Hugh Osborne

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  • Ant Hunt: Towards a Validated Model of Live Ant Hunting Behavior

    Yu-Ting Yang, Andrew Quitmeyer, Brian Hrolenok, Harry Shang, Dinh Bao Nguyen, Tucker Balch, Terrance Medina, Cole Sherer, Maria Hybinette

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  • Iterative Ontology Selection Guided by User for Building Domain Ontologies

    Asma Minyaoui, Faiez Gargouri

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  • Empirical Study of Dimensional and Categorical Emotion Descriptors in Emotional Speech Perception

    Rui Sun, Elliot II Moore

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  • Arc Consistency for CP-Nets under Constraints

    Eisa Alanazi, Malek Mouhoub

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  • Maritime Threat Detection Using Probabilistic Graphical Models

    Bryan Auslander, Kalyan Moy Gupta, David William Aha

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  • A Knowledge-Migration-Based Multi-Population Cultural Algorithm to Solve Job Shop Scheduling

    Mohammad R. Raeesi N., Ziad Kobti

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  • Efficiency Improvements for Parallel Subgraph Miners

    Abhik Ray, Lawrence B. Holder

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Affective Computing

  • Building an On-Demand Avatar-Based Health Intervention for Behavior Change

    Christine Lisetti, Ugan Yasavur, Claudia de Leon, Reza Amini, Ubbo Visser, Naphtali Rishe

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  • Special Track on Affective Computing

    Rafael Calvo

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  • From Joyous to Clinically Depressed: Mood Detection Using Spontaneous Speech

    Sharifa M, Alghowinem, Roland Goecke, Michael Wagner, Julien Epps, Michael Breakspear, Gordon Parker

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  • Virtual Facework Trainer: Use of Offendable Bots for Learning Cross-Cultural (Im)Politeness

    Ronald M. Lee, Elizabeth Dominguez Campillo, Gregory Diaz

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  • Emotion Expression 3-D Synthesis From Predicted Emotion Magnitudes

    Ricardo A. Calix

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  • Investigating the Robustness of Teager Energy Cepstrum Coefficients for Emotion Recognition in Noisy Conditions

    Rui Sun, Elliot II Moore

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  • Emotion Oriented Programming: Computational Abstractions for AI Problem Solving

    Kévin Darty, Nicolas Sabouret

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  • Decision Making Based on Somatic Markers

    Jens Hoefinghoff, Josef Pauli

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  • Constructing a Personality-Annotated Corpus for Educational Game based on Leary’s Rose Framework

    Candice Burkett, Fazel Keshtkar, Arthur Graesser, Haiying Li

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Applied Natural Language Processing

  • Special Track on Applied Natural Language Processing

    Chutima Boonthum-Denecke

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  • The Devil Is in the Details: New Directions in Deception Analysis

    Philip Michael McCarthy, Nicholas D. Duran, Lucille M. Booker

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  • Finding Associations between People

    Eduardo Blanco, Dan Moldovan

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  • Proper Noun Semantic Clustering Using Bag-of-Vectors

    Ali Reza Ebadat, Vincent Claveau, Pascale Sébillot

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  • SenticNet 2: A Semantic and Affective Resource for Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis

    Erik Cambria, Catherine Havasi, Amir Hussain

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  • Automatic Coherence Profile in Public Speeches of Three Latin American Heads-of-State

    René Venegas

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  • Addressing Semantic Ambiguities in Natural Language Constraints

    Imran Sarwar Bajwa, Mark Lee, Behzad Bordbar, Ahsan Ali

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  • A Linguistic Analysis of Expert-Generated Paraphrases

    Russell D. Brandon, Scott A. Crossley, Danielle S. McNamara

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  • Identifying Personality Types Using Document Classification Methods

    Michael C. Komisin, Curry I. Guinn

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  • Measuring Semantic Similarity in Short Texts through Greedy Pairing and Word Semantics

    Mihai Lintean, Vasile Rus

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  • Arabic Cross-Document NLP for the Hadith and Biography Literature

    Fadi Zaraket, Jad Makhlouta

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  • An Eigenvalue-Based Measure for Word-Sense Disambiguation

    Ioana Hulpus, Conor Hayes, Marcel Karnstedt, Derek Greene

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  • A Comparative Study on English and Chinese Word Uses with LIWC

    Haiying Li, Zhiqiang Cai, Arthur C. Graesser, Ying Duan

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  • Story-Level Inference and Gap Filling to Improve Machine Reading

    Hans Chalupsky

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  • Syntagmatic, Paradigmatic, and Automatic N-Gram Approaches to Assessing Essay Quality

    Scott Crossley, Zhiqiang Cai, Danielle S. McNamara

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  • Applying Kernel Methods to Argumentation Mining

    Niall Rooney, Hui Wang, Fiona Browne

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AI, Cognitive Semantics

  • Lexical Meanings Analysed by Means of Typed Applicative Representations

    Jean-Pierre Descles

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  • Special Track on Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Semantics, Computational Linguistics, and Logic

    Ismaïl Biskri

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  • Propositional Attitudes in Non-Compositional Logic

    Matthias Gerner

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  • Speech Acts, Dialogues and the Common Ground

    Michel A. Paquette

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  • The Analysis and Synthesis of Logic Translation

    Tzu-Keng Fu, Oliver Kutz

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  • Enhancing Publication Description with Resources Metadata

    Christian Cote, Richard Dapoigny, Caroline Wintergerst

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  • Studying Formal Properties of a Free Word Order Language

    Vladislav Kubon, Marketa Lopatkova

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AI Education

  • Special Track on Artificial Intelligence Education

    Jim Marshall

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  • Research Modules for Undergraduates in Machine Learning for Automatic Gesture Classification

    Sambit Bhattacharya, Denny Bogdan Czejdo, Nicolas Perez

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  • Genetic Algorithms with Lego Mindstorms and Matlab

    Frank Klassner, James Peyton-Jones, Kurt Lehmer

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Case-Based Reasoning

  • Special Track on Case-Based Reasoning

    Michael W. Floyd

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  • Customizing Question Selection in Conversational Case-Based Reasoning

    Vahid Jalali, David Leake

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  • Case-Based Learning by Observation in Robotics Using a Dynamic Case Representation

    Michael William Floyd, Mehmet Vefa Bicakci, Babak Esfandiari

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  • Toward a Knowledge Transfer Model of Case-Based Inference

    Santiago Ontanon, Enric Plaza

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  • Interactivity and Multimedia in Case-Based Recommendation

    Eoin Hurrell, Alan Smeaton, Barry Smyth

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  • Case Acquisition Strategies for Case-Based Reasoning in Real-Time Strategy Games

    Santiago Ontanon

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Cognition and AI

  • Special Track on Cognition and Artificial Intelligence: Comparing Human Capability and Experience with Today’s Computer Models

    Nik Nailah Binti Abdullah

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  • A Formal Bi-Logic Framework for the Mental Processes

    Tzu-Keng Fu

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  • An Approach to Evaluate AI Commonsense Reasoning Systems

    Stellan Ohlsson, Robert H. Sloan, Gyorgy Turan, Daniel Uber, Aaron Urasky

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  • Rule Based Event Management Systems

    Ridhika Malik, Nandan Parameswaran, Udayan Ghose

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  • Gestural Control of Household Appliances for the Physically Impaired

    Hans Werner Guesgen, Darren Kessell

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  • Learning Artifact Capabilities Via a Hybrid Ontology

    Felicitas Mokom, Ziad Kobti

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Data Mining

  • Special Track on Data Mining

    David Bisant

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  • Classifying Scientific Performance on a Metric-by-Metric Basis

    Eric Belanga Bell, Eric Marshall, Ryan Hull, Keith Fligg, Antonio Sanfilippo, Don Daly, Dave Engel

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  • Quantitative Comparison of Linear and Non-linear Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Solar Image Archives

    Juan M. Banda, Rafal A. Angryk, Petrus C. Martens

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  • Automated Weather Sensor Quality Control

    Douglas E. Galarus, Rafal Angryk, John Sheppard

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  • Using Frequent Pattern Mining To Identify Behaviors In A Naked Mole Rat Colony

    Susan P. Imberman, Michael E. Kress, Dan P. McCloskey

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  • Graph-Based Anomaly Detection Applied to Homeland Security Cargo Screening

    William Eberle, Lawrence Holder, Beverly Massengill

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Games and Entertainment

  • Special Track on Games and Entertainment

    David Hunter Hale

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  • When Planning Should Be Easy: On Solving Cumulative Planning Problems

    Roman Bartak, Filip Dvorak, Jakub Gemrot, Cyril Brom, Daniel Toropila

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  • Generating Texture Aware Spatial Decompositions

    D. Hunter Hale, G. Michael Youngblood

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  • Effect of Latency on Pursuit Problems

    William Peter Birmingham, Shane Rose, Gregory Miller, Matthew Mahan

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems

  • Tutor Modeling Versus Student Modeling

    Zachary A. Pardos, Neil T. Heffernan

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  • Special Track on Intelligent Tutoring Systems

    Robert G. M. Hausmann

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  • Recognizing Effective and Student-Adaptive Tutor Moves in Task-Oriented Tutorial Dialogue

    Christopher Michael Mitchell, Eun Young Ha, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, James C. Lester

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  • Mining Data from Project LISTEN’s Reading Tutor to Analyze Development of Children’s Oral Reading Prosody

    Sunayana Sitaram, Jack Mostow

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  • Evaluating and Improving Real-Time Tracking of Children’s Oral Reading

    Yuanpeng Li, Jack Mostow

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  • Interactive Concept Maps and Learning Outcomes in Guru

    Natalie K. Person, Andrew M. Olney, Sidney K. D'Mello, Blair A. Lehman

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  • Evaluating ConceptGrid: An Authoring System for Natural Language Responses

    Stephen Bruce Blessing, Shrenik Devasani, Stephen Gilbert

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  • Analyzing Posture and Affect in Task-Oriented Tutoring

    Joseph F. Grafsgaard, Kristy Elizabeth Boyer, Eric N. Wiebe, James C. Lester

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  • Towards Data Driven Model Improvement

    Yumeng Qiu, Zachary A. Pardos, Neil T Heffernan

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  • A Comparison of Gains between Educational Games and a Traditional ITS

    G. Tanner Tanner Jackson, Chutima Boonthum-Denecke, Danielle S. McNamara

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  • Malleability of Students’ Perceptions of an Affect-Sensitive Tutor and Its Influence on Learning

    Sidney D'Mello, Art Graesser

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  • Teaching UML Skills to Novice Programmers Using a Sample Solution Based Intelligent Tutoring System

    Joachim Schramm, Sven Strickroth, Nguyen-Thinh Le, Niels Pinkwart

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  • SAMHT — Suicidal Avatars for Mental Health Training

    Cameron Carpenter, Leticia Osterberg, Geoff Sutcliffe

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  • Developing Pedagogically-Guided Threshold Algorithms for Intelligent Automated Essay Feedback

    Rod D. Roscoe, Danica Kugler, Scott A. Crossley, Jennifer L. Weston, Danielle S. McNamara

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Robotics and Human Robot Interaction

  • Special Track on Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction

    Chutima Boonthum-Denecke

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  • Robot Localization Using Overhead Camera and LEDs

    Emmanuel Johnson, Edwin Olson, Chutima Boonthum-Denecke

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  • Wii Nunchuk Controlled Dance Pleo! Dance! to Assist Children with Cerebral Palsy by Play Therapy

    Jennifer Gregory, Ayanna Howard, Chutima Boonthum-Denecke

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  • R-One Swarm Robot: Developing the Accelerometer and Gyroscope

    Ebrima Jobe, James McLurkin, Chutima Boonthum-Denecke

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  • Small Scale Manipulation with the Calliope Robot

    Owen Watson, David Touretzky

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  • Using Robotics to Achieve Meaningful Research Skills in Robotics

    Elvra Rebecca Caldwell, Elva J. Jones

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  • Graphical Display of Search Trees for Transparent Robot Programming

    Joaquin Arturo Pockels, Ashwin Iyengar, David Touretzky

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  • Leg Design for a Praying Mantis Robot

    Ramon A. Cardona, David S. Touretzky

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  • Adaptive Obstacle Representations for Dynamical Navigation

    Eric Aaron, Juan Pablo Mendoza, Foster Nichols

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  • Snackbot: The Process to Engage in Human-Robot Conversation

    Dekita Moon, Paul Rybski, Cheryl Swanier, Chutima Boonthum-Denecke

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Uncertain Reasoning

  • Special Track on Uncertain Reasoning

    Cory James Butz

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  • Asymptotic Maximum Entropy Principle for Utility Elicitation under High Uncertainty and Partial Information

    Rafik Hadfi, Takayuki Ito

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  • A Postulate-Based Analysis of Comparative Preference Statements

    Souhila Kaci

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  • Focused Grounding for Markov Logic Networks

    Michael Robert Glass, Ken Barker

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  • A Model-Theoretic Semantics for Two-Sided Argumentation

    Geng Wang, Zuoquan Lin

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  • Conditional Objects Revisited: Variants and Model Translations

    Christoph Beierle, Gabriele Kern-Isberner

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  • Towards a General Framework for Maximum Entropy Reasoning

    Nico Potyka

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  • On the Complexity of Bribery and Manipulation in Tournaments with Uncertain Information

    Nicholas Mattei, Judy Goldsmith, Andrew Klapper

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Poster Abstracts

  • Poster Abstracts

    Philip Michael McCarthy

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