Contents
Volume 37, 2010
Text Relatedness Based on a Word Thesaurus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
G. Tsatsaronis, I. Varlamis, and M. Vazirgiannis
Predicting the Performance of IDA* Using Conditional Distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
U. Zahavi, A. Felner, N. Burch, and R. C. Holte
Mechanisms for Multi-Unit Auctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
S. Dobzinski and N. Nisan
Interactive Cost Configuration over Decision Diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
H. R. Andersen, T. Hadzic, and D. Pisinger
From Frequency to Meaning: Vector Space Models of Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
P. D. Turney and P. Pantel
On Action Theory Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
I. J. Varzinczak
Context-based Word Acquisition for Situated Dialogue in a Virtual World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
S. Qu and J. Y. Chai
Join-Graph Propagation Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
R. Mateescu, K. Kask, V. Gogate, and R. Dechter
An Investigation into Mathematical Programming for Finite Horizon Decentralized POMDPs . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
R. Aras and A. Dutech
Training a Multilingual Sportscaster: Using Perceptual Context to Learn Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
D. L. Chen, J. Kim, and R. J. Mooney
Reasoning about the Transfer of Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
W. van der Hoek, D. Walther, and M. Wooldridge
Multiattribute Auctions Based on Generalized Additive Independence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
Y. Engel and M. P. Wellman
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
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