A formal equivalence between propositional expert systems and decision tables is proved, and a practicable procedure given to perform the transformation between propositional expe...
PABLO' is a nonlinear planner that reasons hially by generating abstract predicates. PABLO's abstract search spaces are generated automatically using predicate relaxatio...
Cost-based abduction attempts to find the best explanation for a set of facts by finding a minimal cost proof for the facts. The costs are computed by summing the costs of the ass...
This paper presents an efficient and homogeneous paradigm for automatic acquisition and recognition of nonparametric shapes. Acquisition time varies from linear to cubic in the nu...
Closed world reasoning is a common nonmonotonic technique that allows for dealing with negative information in knowledge and data bases. We present a detailed analysis of the comp...
Recently, conditional logics have been developed for application to problems in default reasoning. We present a uniform framework for the development and investigation of conditio...
This session will explore the reasons for the lack of impact in four important areas in which AI has been expected to significantly affect real world Software Engineering. The pan...
Cyclic definitions are often prohibited in terminological knowledge representation languages because, from a theoretical point of view, their semantics is not clear and, from a pr...