Contents
Volume 38, 2010
Using Local Alignments for Relation Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
S. Katrenko, P. W. Adriaans, M. van Someren
Change in Abstract Argumentation Frameworks: Adding an Argument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
C. Cayrol, F. Dupin de Saint-Cyr, M.-C. Lagasquie-Schiex
BnB-ADOPT: An Asynchronous Branch-and-Bound DCOP Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
W. Yeoh, A. Felner, S. Koenig
A Survey of Paraphrasing and Textual Entailment Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
I. Androutsopoulos, P. Malakasiotis
Constructing Reference Sets from Unstructured, Ungrammatical Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
M. Michelson, C. A. Knoblock
Grounding FO and FO(ID) with Bound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
J. Wittocx, M. Mariën, M. Denecker
Developing Approaches for Solving a Telecommunications Feature Subscription Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
D. Lesaint, D. Mehta, B. O'Sullivan, L. Quesada, N. Wilson
Fast Set Bounds Propagation Using a BDD-SAT Hybrid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
G. Gange, P. J. Stuckey, V. Lagoon
Mixed Strategies in Combinatorial Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
M. Babaioff, M. Feldman, N. Nisan
Approximate Model-Based Diagnosis Using Greedy Stochastic Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
A. Feldman, G. Provan, A. van Gemund
Resource-Driven Mission-Phasing Techniques for Constrained Agents in Stochastic Environments . . . . . . . . 415
J. Wu, E. H. Durfee
A Minimum Relative Entropy Principle for Learning and Acting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
P. A. Ortega, D. A. Braun
Algorithms for Closed Under Rational Behavior (CURB) Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
M. Benisch, G. B. Davis, T. Sandholm
Logical Foundations of RDF(S) with Datatypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
J. de Bruijn, S. Heymans
Cause Identification from Aviation Safety Incident Reports
via Weakly Supervised Semantic Lexicon Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
M. A. U. Abedin, V. Ng, L. Khan
Non-Transferable Utility Coalitional Games via Mixed-Integer Linear Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 633
G. Greco, E. Malizia, L. Palopoli, F. Scarcello
Automatic Induction of Bellman-Error Features for Probabilistic Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687
J.-H. Wu, R. Givan
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757
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