Sciweavers

35 search results - page 4 / 7
» Simulative Inference About Nonmonotonic Reasoners
Sort
View
KR
1998
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Combining Narratives
A theory is elaboration tolerant to the extent that new information can be incorporated with only simple changes. The simplest change is conjoining new information, and only conju...
John McCarthy, Tom Costello
ECSQARU
2009
Springer
14 years 10 days ago
A Note on Cumulative Stereotypical Reasoning
Abstract. We address the problem of providing a logical characterization of reasoning based on stereotypes. Following [6] we take a semantic perspective and we base our model on a ...
Giovanni Casini, Hykel Hosni
AAAI
1997
13 years 7 months ago
Model Decomposition and Simulation: A Component Based Qualitative Simulation Algorithm
Traditionally, qualitative simulation uses a global, state-based representation to describe the behavior of the modeled system. For larger, more complex systems this representatio...
Daniel J. Clancy, Benjamin Kuipers
IJCAI
1997
13 years 7 months ago
Change, Change, Change: Three Approaches
We consider the frame problem, that is, char­ acterizing the assumption that properties tend to persist over time. We show that there are at least three distinct assumptions that...
Tom Costello
IJCAI
1997
13 years 7 months ago
Structural Inferences from Massive Datasets
High-level understanding of data must involve the interplay between substantial prior knowledge with geometric and statistical techniques. Our approach emphasizes the recovery of ...
Kenneth Yip