ECAI 92

ECAI 92
Author: Bernd Neumann
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 930
Release: 1992-11-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780471936084

ECAI 92 August 3-7, 1992, Vienna, Austria Proceedings Edited by Bernd Neumann University of Hamburg, Germany The 10th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in Austria, August 1992, attracted an unusually large number of contributed papers, reflecting the scope and strength of current Al research. Almost 200 selected papers, covering essential areas of Al, are presented in this volume. Such core subjects as Automated Reasoning and Knowledge Representation are given extensive treatment. Attention is also focused on important application issues and real-world problems.

Intelligent Agents

Intelligent Agents
Author: Michael J. Wooldridge
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1144
Release: 1995-01-26
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540588559

This volume coherently present 24 thoroughly revised full papers accepted for the ECAI-94 Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages. There is currently considerable interest, from both the AI and the mainstream CS communities, in conceptualizing and building complex computer systems as collections of intelligent agents. This book is devoted to theoretical and practical aspects of architectural and language-related design and implementation issues of software agents. Particularly interesting is the comprehensive survey by the volume editors, which outlines the key issues and indicates, via a comprehensive bibliography, topics for further reading. In addition, a glossary of key terms in this emerging field and a comprehensive subject index is included.

Dynamics and Management of Reasoning Processes

Dynamics and Management of Reasoning Processes
Author: John-Jules Ch. Meyer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2013-04-17
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9401717435

This volume, the 6th volume in the DRUMS Handbook series, is part of the after math of the successful ESPRIT project DRUMS (Defeasible Reasoning and Un certainty Management Systems) which took place in two stages from 1989-1996. In the second stage (1993-1996) a work package was introduced devoted to the topics Reasoning and Dynamics, covering both the topics of 'Dynamics of Rea soning', where reasoning is viewed as a process, and 'Reasoning about Dynamics', which must be understood as pertaining to how both designers of and agents within dynamic systems may reason about these systems. The present volume presents work done in this context. This work has an emphasis on modelling and formal techniques in the investigation of the topic "Reasoning and Dynamics", but it is not mere theory that occupied us. Rather research was aimed at bridging the gap between theory and practice. Therefore also real-life applications of the modelling techniques were considered, and we hope this also shows in this volume, which is focused on the dynamics of reasoning processes. In order to give the book a broader perspective, we have invited a number of well-known researchers outside the project but working on similar topics to contribute as well. We have very pleasant recollections of the project, with its lively workshops and other meetings, with the many sites and researchers involved, both within and outside our own work package.

Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation - Meta-Programming in Logic

Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation - Meta-Programming in Logic
Author: Laurent Fribourg
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1994-11-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540587927

This volume constitutes the combined proceedings of the 4th International Workshops on Logic Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR '94) and on Meta-Programming (META '94), held jointly in Pisa, Italy in June 1994. This book includes thoroughly revised versions of the best papers presented at both workshops. The main topics addressed by the META papers are language extensions in support of meta-logic, semantics of meta-logic, implementation of meta-logic features, performance of meta-logic, and several applicational aspects. The LOPSTR papers are devoted to unfolding/folding, partial deduction, proofs as programs, inductive logic programming, automated program verification, specification and programming methodologies.

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Total Pages: 7289
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Foundations of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Foundations of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Author: Gerhard Lakemeyer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1994-06-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540581079

The papers collected in this book cover a wide range of topics in asymptotic statistics. In particular up-to-date-information is presented in detection of systematic changes, in series of observation, in robust regression analysis, in numerical empirical processes and in related areas of actuarial sciences and mathematical programming. The emphasis is on theoretical contributions with impact on statistical methods employed in the analysis of experiments and observations by biometricians, econometricians and engineers.

Logic Programming

Logic Programming
Author: Leon Sterling
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 860
Release: 1995
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780262691772

Topics covered: Theoretical Foundations. Higher-Order Logics. Non-Monotonic Reasoning. Programming Methodology. Programming Environments. Extensions to Logic Programming. Constraint Satisfaction. Meta-Programming. Language Design and Constructs. Implementation of Logic Programming Languages. Compilation Techniques. Architectures. Parallelism. Reasoning about Programs. Deductive Databases. Applications. 13-16 June 1995, Tokyo, Japan ICLP, which is sponsored by the Association for Logic Programming, is one of two major annual international conferences reporting recent research results in logic programming. Logic programming originates from the discovery that a subset of predicate logic could be given a procedural interpretation which was first embodied in the programming language, Prolog. The unique features of logic programming make it appealing for numerous applications in artificial intelligence, computer-aided design and verification, databases, and operations research, and for exploring parallel and concurrent computing. The last two decades have witnessed substantial developments in this field from its foundation to implementation, applications, and the exploration of new language designs. Topics covered: Theoretical Foundations. Higher-Order Logics. Non-Monotonic Reasoning. Programming Methodology. Programming Environments. Extensions to Logic Programming. Constraint Satisfaction. Meta-Programming. Language Design and Constructs. Implementation of Logic Programming Languages. Compilation Techniques. Architectures. Parallelism. Reasoning about Programs. Deductive Databases. Applications. Logic Programming series, Research Reports and Notes

Qualitative and Quantitative Practical Reasoning

Qualitative and Quantitative Practical Reasoning
Author: Dov Gabbay
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 644
Release: 1997-05-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540630951

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Joint Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Practical Reasoning, ECSQARU-FAPR'97, held in Bad Honnef, Germany, in June 1997. The volume presents 33 revised full papers carefully selected for inclusion in the book by the program committee as well as 12 invited contributions. Among the various aspects of human practical reasoning addressed in the papers are nonmonotonic logics, default reasoning, modal logics, belief function theory, Bayesian networks, fuzzy logic, possibility theory, inference algorithms, dynamic reasoning with partial models, and user modeling approaches.

Qualitative Reasoning

Qualitative Reasoning
Author: Hannes Werthner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3709166241

The book provides a survey about the field of Qualitative Reasoning, it contrasts and classifies its approaches and puts them into a common framework. Qualitative Reasoning represents an approach of Artificial Intelligence to model dynamic systems, about which little information is available, and to derive statements about the potential behavior of these systems, putting emphasis on a causal explanation of the behavior. Both variables and relationships between variables are described by means of qualitative terms such as small and large or positive and negative. Since this approach also takes into consideration the way how humans reason about physical systems, it can be stated that Qualitative Reasoning participates in the creation of a cognitive theory of non-numerical process descriptions which can be mapped onto a digital computer. This approach can be used for simulation, diagnosis, design, structure identification and interpretation. Areas of application are physics, medicine, the field of ecology, process control, etc. In addition to the classification of existing methods, the book presents a new approach based on fuzzy sets. And the work relates Qualitative Reasoning with such fields of Expert Systems, System Theory and Cognitive Science.

A Future for Knowledge Acquisition

A Future for Knowledge Acquisition
Author: Luc Steels
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 438
Release: 1994-09-14
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783540584872

In the last few years rapid advances have been made in reproductive medicine, making it necessary for those involved to regularly update their knowledge. The purpose of this book is to describe the state of the art in this field, making it possible for the reader to gain an orientation among all the diagnostic and therapeutic potentials of modern reproductive medicine in order to advise patients fully. Chapters from the fields of gynecology, and reproductive medicine in a specific sense provide knowledge about these subjects. Authors of international standing have contributed chapters on their specialties. These chapters together form a book describing the state of the art in the diagnosis and therapy of sterility in gynecology and andrology.