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AAAI
1990
14 years 21 days ago
Very Fast Decision Table Execution of Propositional Expert Systems
A formal equivalence between propositional expert systems and decision tables is proved, and a practicable procedure given to perform the transformation between propositional expe...
Robert M. Colomb, Charles Y. C. Chung
AAAI
1990
14 years 21 days ago
A Hierarchical Planner that Generates Its Own Hierarchies
PABLO' is a nonlinear planner that reasons hially by generating abstract predicates. PABLO's abstract search spaces are generated automatically using predicate relaxatio...
Jens Christensen
AAAI
1990
14 years 21 days ago
Probabilistic Semantics for Cost Based Abduction
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...
Eugene Charniak, Solomon Eyal Shimony
AAAI
1990
14 years 21 days ago
Generalized Shape Autocorrelation
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...
Andrea Califano, Rakesh Mohan
AAAI
1990
14 years 21 days ago
The Complexity of Closed World Reasoning and Circumscription
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...
Marco Cadoli, Maurizio Lenzerini
AAAI
1990
14 years 21 days ago
Conditional Logics of Normality as Modal Systems
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...
Craig Boutilier
AAAI
1990
14 years 21 days ago
AI and Software Engineering: Will the Twain Ever Meet?
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...
Robert Balzer
AAAI
1990
14 years 21 days ago
Terminological Cycles in KL-ONE-based Knowledge Representation Languages
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...
Franz Baader