Artificial intelligence publications

This paper describes some recent research on architectures for situated (embedded) systems that need to deliberate and reason in real time. We present an architecture, based on the Procedural Reasoning…

This article appeared in the Proceedings of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Workshop on Innovative Approaches to Planning, Scheduling, and Control.

The use of AI methods to monitor and control semiconductor fabrication in a state-of-the-art manufacturing environment called the Rapid Thermal Multiprocessor is described.

To contrast their objectives and characteristics with the sound deductive procedures of classical logic, methodologies developed for that purpose are usually described as relying on Approximate Reasoning. Using a unified…

In this paper, we first review briefly a variety of AI inference techniques, focusing primarily on logical inference and uncertain reasoning methods. We conclude with a survey of approaches used…

We describe a system called Tileworld, which consists of a simulated robot agent and a simulated environment which is both dynamic and unpredictable. We describe our initial experiments using Tileworld,…

This paper describes some of the features of a Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) that enables it to operate effectively in such environments.

In this paper, we describe a compilation-based method for automatically generating new programs and new universal attachments to those programs given a base set of existing programs and universal attachments.

The advantages of hierarchical planning for construction projects and the difficulties associated with implementing hierarchical planning systems using artificial intelligence techniques are described.

We describe an approach to abductive reasoning called weighted abduction, which uses inference weights to compare competing explanations for observed behavior. We present an algorithm for computing a weighted-abductive explanation,…