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AAAI
1990
13 years 5 months ago
A Circumscriptive Theory for Causal and Evidential Support
Reasoning about causality is an interesting application area of formal nonmonotonic theories. Here we focus our attention on a certain aspect of causal reasoning, namely causaZ as...
Eunok Paek
AAAI
1990
13 years 5 months ago
Understanding Natural Language with Diagrams
We describe a program, BEATRIX, that can understand textbook physics problems specified by a combination of English text and a diagram. The result of the understanding process is ...
Gordon S. Novak, William C. Bulko
AAAI
1990
13 years 5 months ago
Pointing: A Way Toward Explanation Dialogue
Explanation requires a dialogue. Users must be allowed to ask questions about previously given explanations. However, building an interface that allows users to ask follow-up ques...
Johanna D. Moore, William R. Swartout
AAAI
1990
13 years 5 months ago
Tree Decomposition with Applications to Constraint Processing
This paper concerns the task of removing redundant information from a given knowledge base, and restructuring it in the form of a tree, so as to admit efficient problem solving ro...
Itay Meiri, Judea Pearl, Rina Dechter
AAAI
1990
13 years 5 months ago
The Intelligent Database Interface: Integrating AI and Database Systems
The Intelligent Database Interface (IDI) is a cache-based interface that is designed to provide Artificial Intelligence systems with efficient access to one or more databases on o...
Donald P. McKay, Timothy W. Finin, Anthony B. O'Ha...
AAAI
1990
13 years 5 months ago
Becoming Increasingly Reactive
We describe a robot control architecture which combines a stimulus-response subsystem for rapid reaction, with a search-based planner for handling unanticipated situations. The ro...
Tom M. Mitchell
AAAI
1990
13 years 5 months ago
On the Performance of Lazy Matching in Production Systems
Daniel P. Miranker, David A. Brant, Bernie J. Lofa...
AAAI
1990
13 years 5 months ago
LOGnets: A Hybrid Graph Spatial Representation for Robot Navigation
In this article we present a novel, hybrid graph spatial representation for robot navigation. This representation enables our mobile robot to build a model of its surroundings whi...
Peter K. Malkin, Sanjaya Addanki
AAAI
1990
13 years 5 months ago
Skolem Functions and Equality in Automated Deduction
We present a strategy for restricting the application of the inference rule paramodulation. The strategy applies to problems in first-order logic with equality and is designed to ...
William McCune
AAAI
1990
13 years 5 months ago
On the Role of Coherence in Abductive Explanation
Abduction is an important inference process underlying much of human intelligent activities, including text understanding, plan recognition, disease diagnosis, and physical device...
Hwee Tou Ng, Raymond J. Mooney