In complex and dynamic scenarios, autonomous vehicles often need to intelligently adapt their behavior to unexpected changes in the their environment. Goal Reasoning provides a methodology for autonomous agents to deliberate and adapt their goals to more intelligently react to changing conditions. This paper implements a Goal Reasoning system based on the Goal Lifecycle, and grounds the impleme...

A problem which has recently attracted research attention is that of estimating the distribution of flow sizes in internet traffic. On high traffic links it is sometimes impossible to record every packet. Researchers have approached the problem of estimating flow lengths from sampled packet data in two separate ways. Firstly, different sampling methodologies can be tried to more accurately meas...

In the seminal paper on voting games with private information, AustenSmith and Banks (1996) derived the provocative result that informative voting is not an equilibrium of the Condorcet voting model when the size of the electorate is large. We show that this result may depend on too strong an assumption about what voters know about the informativeness of other voters’ ballots. We add the possib...

The main practical problem encountered with frequent subgraph search methods is the tens of thousands of returned graph patterns that make their visual analysis impossible. In order to face this problem, are introduced a very restricted family of relevant graph patterns called the most informative patterns along with an algorithm to mine them and associated experimental results. In graph-based ...

In this paper we introduce a method for distinguishing between informative and uninformative viewpoints as they pertain to an active observer seeking to identify an object in a known environment. The method is based on a generalized inverse theory using a probabilistic framework where assertions are represented by conditional probability density functions. Consequently, the method also permits ...

In order to get a grasp of the market for advertising, one needs to understand why firms demand advertising, and how suppliers of advertising set their prices. In the present analysis, firms buy advertising in order to inform consumers about their products. TV channels offer advertising on a per-viewer basis. We find that the performance of this market for advertising depends on features of bot...

Background: DNA markers are inevitable tools of human identification in forensic science. Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are one category of these markers which is concerned to use especially in the case of degraded DNA because of their short amplicons. Objectives: Detection of highly informative SNPs by the criteria is the essential step to devel...

Data analysis is an inherently iterative process. That is, what we know about the data greatly determines our expectations, and hence, what result we would find the most interesting. With this in mind, we introduce a well-founded approach for succinctly summarizing data with a collection of informative itemsets; using a probabilistic maximum entropy model, we iteratively find the most interesti...

Why do political candidates who are largely office-motivated sometimes espouse views that are non-congruent with those of their electorate? Can non-congruent statements convey any information to voters about what a politician will do if elected, and if so, why would voters elect a politician who makes such statements? We develop a model of credible costless and non-binding communication in elec...