Speaker: Attendees of AAMAS 2009
Speaker: George Chalkiadakis, University of Southampton
In multiagent domains, agents form coalitions to perform tasks. The usual models of cooperative game theory assume that the desired outcome is either the grand coalition or a coalition structure that consists of disjoint coalitions (i.e., a partition of the set of agents).
Speaker: Omar Zia Khan
Explaining policies of Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) is complicated due to their probabilistic and sequential nature. We present a technique to explain policies for factored MDP by populating a set of domain-independent templates.
Speaker: Zinovi Rabinovich, University of Southampton, U.K.
Egocentric Perceptual Control (EPC) is characterised by the optimality criteria and the control task being formulated in terms of the agent's perceptions.
Speaker: Holger Hoos, the University of British Columbia
We live in interesting times - as individuals, as members of various communities and organisations, and as inhabitants of planet Earth, we face many challenges, ranging from climate change to resource limitations, from market risks and uncertainties to complex diseases.
Speaker: Chris Marriott
Humans possess many social learning mechanisms that may be unique to our species (e.g. human speech). Imitation is a social learning mechanism that ethologists believe is at least unigue to Hominidae (the great apes) if not Homo sapiens.
Speaker: Claus Strommer
Rhetorical figures in text contain a wealth of information that has largely been left untapped in natural language processing (NLP).
Speaker: Gerald Penn, University of Toronto
Speech is arguably the most basic, most natural form of communication that we engage in, so it should come as no surprise that there has been a consistent pressure to deliver spoken audio content on web pages that, in principle, can be searched through.
Speaker: Claus Strommer
Speaker: Chris Marriott, University of Waterloo