Eric J. Glover1;2 Steve Lawrence1 Michael D. Gordon3 William P. Birmingham2 C. Lee Giles1 fcompuman,lawrence,[email protected] fcompuman,[email protected] [email protected] NEC Research Institute1 Artificial Intelligence Laboratory2 Business Administration3 4 Independence Way University of Michigan University of Michigan Princeton, NJ 0854

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Using notions from logic and economics, we formulate and formalize the notion of rational self-government, in which the agent reflects on its circumstances, abilities, and limitations to rationally guide its own reasoning and internal organization, in addition to its external actions. This research was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DOD), ARPA Order No. 4976, Amendm...

The overall objective of the REFEREE project is to use recent Artificial Intelligence techniques to build a system that helps the informed but statistically non-expert reader to evaluate critically the medical literature on randomized controlled trials (RCT’sj. This system will contain and be able to apply dynamically the detailed specialized knowledge of Dr. Byron W. Brown, a biostatistician e...

The aim of the I-X research programme is to provide a general framework for performing mixed-initiative synthesis tasks, along with a set of tools that supports its use. This framework arises from and builds upon seminal work at the University of Edinburgh in the field of Artificial Intelligence planning. In this paper we describe the framework and tools, before describing the application of I-...

Abstract-This research study attempts to review the pedagogical and cognitive aspects in e-learning. Conditioning e-learning system according to the characteristics of knowledge for students involves attitude survey of simultaneously artistic and pedagogical features. The main feature of e-learning systems is the ability to incorporate and deal with various types of contents and react efficient...

Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University Putra Malaysia (UPM), Serdang, Selangor D.E., 43400, Malaysia. Department of Manufacturing Engineering, University Malaysia Pahang (UMP) 26300, Malaysia. Senior Staff Researcher in Artificial Intelligence Center, MIMOS Berhad Technology Park Malaysia, 57000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Department of Industrial Management, Islamic Aza...

98 Heart failure is one of the most prevalent diseases in industrialized countries. Although the prognosis of patients with heart failure is still poor, in recent decades new therapies have been investigated in order to improve quality of life and survival. However, up to 30% of the patients with advanced heart failure present disturbances in intraventricular conduction, and this produces async...