We present a theory of qualitative rigid body mechanics and describe a program that uses this theory to compute qualitative dynamic simulations.1 The program works directly from a...
Thomas F. Stahovich, Randall Davis, Howard E. Shro...
This paper argues that complex, embedded software agent systems are best constructed with parallel, layered architectures. These systems resemble Minskian Societies of Mind and Br...
We describe a parsing system based upon a language model for English that is, in turn, based upon assigning probabilities to possible parses for a sentence. This model is used in ...
We consider the problem of query plan optimization in information brokers. Information brokers are programs that facilitate access to collections of information sources by hiding ...