Automating proofs by induction is important in many computer science and artificial intelligence applications, in particular in program verification and specification systems. We ...
Abduction is an important inference process underlying much of human intelligent activities, including text understanding, plan recognition, disease diagnosis, and physical device...
A central problem in text-understanding research is the indeterminacy of natural language. Two related issues that arise in confronting this problem are the need to make complex i...
Rebecca J. Passonneau, Carl Weir, Timothy W. Finin...
Qualitative reasoning can, and should, be decomposed into a model-building task, which creates a qualitative differential equation (QDE) as a model of a physical situation, and a ...
James M. Crawford, Adam Farquhar, Benjamin Kuipers
The paper evaluates the eectiveness of learning for speeding up the solution of constraint satisfaction problems. It extends previous work (Dechter 1990) by introducing a new and ...