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May 1999
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Proceedings of the Twelfth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 1999)
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Proceedings of the Twelfth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 1999)
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Numerous artificial intelligence schemes and applications require, at their core, a solution to intractable computational problems, such as probabilistic reasoning. Conditions for theorems guaranteeing polynomial time algorithms for special cases, do not hold for many real-world problem instances. While there are a number of highly specialized algorithms / heuristics that can solve specific problem subclasses, a great variance exists between algorithm performance over the spectrum of different problem instances. However, matching the best algorithm to a problem instance is a difficult proposition at best. Unfortunately, this is also assuming that such an individual algorithm exists which can actually solve the given problem in a reasonable amount of time and space. Harnessing several different problem-solving algorithms / methods together into a cooperative system (or portfolio) has been observed to have the potential for solving these NP-hard problems. The need exists for an intelligent controller that is able to effectively combine radically different problem-solving techniques into a distributed, cooperative environment. In this paper, we describe the OVERMIND system which provides a framework and approach for developing such controllers. By modeling the performance / behavior of the component algorithms, especially how they cooperate and interact, this provides the means for developing a controller to select the most appropriate algorithm mix (portfolio). We applied this approach to belief revision in Bayesian networks.
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FLAIRS
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 1999)
ISBN 978-1-57735-080-4
Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California.