We present a novel approach to knowledge-based automated one-shot multi-issue bilateral negotiation handling, in a homogeneous setting, both numerical features and non-numerical ones. The framework makes possible to formally represent typical situations in real e-marketplaces such as “if I spend more than 20000 e for a sedan then I want a navigator pack included” where both numerical (price) an...

We present a novel approach to knowledge-based automated one-shot multi-issue bilateral negotiation handling, in a homogeneous setting, both numerical features and non-numerical ones. The framework makes possible to formally represent typical situations in real e-marketplaces such as “if I spend more than 20000 e for a sedan then I want a navigator pack included” where both numerical (price) an...

This thesis examines how to model the choice of individual travelers among various possible travel alternatives in the airline industry. A review of the models used to represent that choice situation in the Passenger OriginDestination Simulator (PODS) was undertaken for two reasons. First, the development of computational capabilities has lead to advancements in consumer choice theory that enab...

This paper presents a unified grammatical framework capable of reconstructing a variety of scene types (e.g., urban, campus, country etc.) from a single input image. The key idea of our approach is to study a novel commonsense reasoning framework that mainly exploits two types of prior knowledge: (i) prior distributions over a single dimension of objects, e.g., that the length of a sedan is abo...

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A station closure is an abnormal operational situation in which the entrances or exits of a rail transit station have to be closed for some time due to an unexpected incident. A novel approach is developed to estimate the impacts of the alternative station closure scenarios on both passenger behavioral choices at the individual level and passenger demand at the disaggregate level in a rail tran...

The CPC (chromosomal passenger complex) performs essential roles in the regulation and co-ordination of chromosomal and cytoskeletal events during mitosis and meiosis. The first functional analyses showed evidence of a role of the CPC in the regulation of cytokinesis. In this review, I summarize what we have learned since then about the role of the CPC in the late stages of mitosis and cytokine...

Query-oriented update summarization is an emerging summarization task very recently. It brings new challenges to the sentence ranking algorithms that require not only to locate the important and query-relevant information, but also to capture the new information when document collections evolve. In this paper, we propose a novel graph based sentence ranking algorithm, namely PNR, for update sum...

A multi-agent approach to community detection is studied. There are three objectives in this thesis. The first is to investigate how the parameters of the model affect the community structure. To investigate this, the parameters are swept one at the time and the results are then compared to each other. The second objective is to study how the initial values of the agents affect the community st...

The raison d'etre of the Airline Passenger Transportation System (APTS) is the rapid, affordable, and safe transportation of passengers (and cargo). Traditional APTS performance metrics, such as flight delays and cancellation rates, fail to account for the delays to passenger trips caused by cancelled flights, missed connections and diversions. Previous research estimated Passenger Trip Delays ...