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AISC
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Tactic Language for Hiproofs
Abstract. We introduce and study a tactic language, Hitac, for constructing hierarchical proofs, known as hiproofs. The idea of hiproofs is to superimpose a labelled hierarchical n...
David Aspinall, Ewen Denney, Christoph Lüth
AISC
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Kantian Philosophy of Mathematics and Young Robots
A child, or young human-like robot of the future, needs to develop an information-processing architecture, forms of representation, and mechanisms to support perceiving, manipulati...
Aaron Sloman
AISC
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
AISC Meets Natural Typography
Abstract. McDermott [12,13] introduced the concept "Artificial Intelligence meets Natural Stupidity". In this paper, we explore how Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic C...
James H. Davenport
AISC
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Herbrand Sequent Extraction
Stefan Hetzl, Alexander Leitsch, Daniel Weller, Br...
AISB
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Cognition without content
According to the traditional conception of the mind, semantical content is perhaps the most important feature distinguishing mental from non-mental systems. And this traditional co...
Paul Schweizer
AISB
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Substitution for Fraenkel-Mostowski foundations
Abstract. A fundamental and unanalysed logical concept is substitution. This seemingly innocuous operation -- substituting a variable for a term or valuating a variable to an eleme...
Murdoch Gabbay, Michael Gabbay
AISB
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Social Robotics and the person problem
Like computers before them, social robots can be used as a fundamental research tool. Indeed, they can help us to turn our attention from putative inner modules to thinking about t...
Stephen J. Cowley
AISB
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Foundations of a Philosophy of Collective Intelligence
Philosophy, artificial intelligence and cognitive science have long been dominated by the presupposition that intelligence is fundamentally individual. Recent work in cognitive sci...
Harry Halpin
AISB
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Modelling Framework for Functional Imagination
Imagination is generally regarded as a very powerful and advanced cognitive ability. In this paper we propose a modelling framework for what we call functional imagination: the ab...
Hugo Gravato Marques, Owen Holland, Richard Newcom...
AISB
2008
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Constructivism in AI: Prospects, Progress and Challenges
This position paper argues the case for the application of constructivist theories to Artificial Intelligence, with particular emphasis on Piaget's theory. The idea of buildin...
Frank Guerin