AI Growing Up: The Changes and Opportunities
Many people make many confusing claims about the aims and potential for success of work in AI. Much of this arises from a misunderstanding of the nature of work in the field. In this article, I examine the field and make some observations that I think ...
The DARPA High‐Performance Knowledge Bases Project
Now completing its first year, the High‐Performance Knowledge Bases Project promotes technology for developing very large, flexible, and reusable knowledge bases. The project is supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and includes more ...
The Naive Physics Perplex
The “Naive Physics Manifesto” of Pat Hayes (1978) proposes a large‐scale project to develop a formal theory encompassing the entire knowledge of physics of naive reasoners, expressed in a declarative symbolic form. The theory is organized in clusters of ...
Building of a Corporate Memory for Traffic‐Accident Analysis
- Rose Dieng,
- Alain Giboin,
- Christelle Amergé,
- Olivier Corby,
- Sylvie Després,
- Laurence Alpay,
- Sofiane Labidi,
- Stéphane Lapalut
This article presents an experiment of expertise capitalization in road traffic‐accident analysis. We study the integration of models of expertise from different members of an organization into a coherent corporate expertise model. We present our ...
A Generic Framework for Constraint‐Directed Search and Scheduling
This article introduces a generic framework for constraint‐directed search. The research literature in constraint‐directed scheduling is placed within the framework both to provide insight into, and examples of, the framework and to allow a new ...
Intelligent Data Analysis: Reasoning about Data
The Second International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis (IDA97) was held at Birkbeck College, University of London, on 4 to 6 August 1997. The main theme of IDA97 was to reason about how to analyze data, perhaps as human analysts do, by exploiting ...
Report on The Eighth Ireland Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS‐97): Theme: AI in “Crisis”?
This article is a report of the Eighth Ireland Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS‐97), which was run in conjunction with the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP‐97), held at the University of Ulster, ...
Report on the Seventh International Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning
The Seventh International Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning was held in Trento, Italy, on 30 May to 1 June 1998 in conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR'98). The workshop was ...
