Abstract In this paper, we describe our Question Answering (QA) system called QUANTUM. The goal of QUANTUM is to find the answer to a natural language question in a large document ...
A large number of problems that occur in knowledge-representation, learning, VLSI-design, and other areas of artificial intelligence, are essentially satisfiability problems. The ...
Most frameworks for utility elicitation assume a predefined set of features over which user preferences are expressed. We consider utility elicitation in the presence of subjecti...
Abstract. Fixed-width MDDs were introduced recently as a more refined alternative for the domain store to represent partial solutions to CSPs. In this work, we present a systemati...
The choice of a good annealing schedule is necessary for good performance of simulated annealing for combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, we pose the simulated anne...