Publications
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Design for conversation: lessons from Cognoter
When studying the use of Cognoter, a multi-user idea organizing tool, we noticed that users encountered unexpected communicative breakdowns.
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Fodor and Psychological Explanations
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Center, AIC
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La couleur en vision par ordinateur: une revue
Ce papier fait le point dans ce domaine, en essayant de repondre aux questions : Qu'est-ce que la couleur ? Quelles en sont les representations adequates ? Comment la determiner…
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On The Semantics Of Fuzzy Logic
The problem of generating similarity functions from a given set of possibility distributions, with the latter interpreted as defining a number of (graded) discernibility relations and the former as the…
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Simpson’s Paradox: A Maximum Likelihood Solution
Simpson's paradox exemplifies a class of problems that can arise when the logic used to reason about the semantics of propositional sentences does not adequately capture certain dependencies between sentences…
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Artificial intelligence methods for theory representation and hypothesis formation
This article describes artificial intelligence methods for representing theories in molecular biology, and for improving the predictive power of these theories using experimental data.
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Information and Architecture
This paper is a continuation of [1] and builds on both the theory and the terminology of that earlier work.
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Managing Deliberation and Reasoning In Real-Time Ai Systems
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…
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Understanding Evidential Reasoning
We show that evidential reasoning can be interpreted in terms of classical probability theory and that the Dempster-Shafer calculus of evidence may be considered to be a form of generalized…
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Proving Properties Of Rule-Based Systems
Deductive methods are being applied to their validation, to detect flaws in these systems and enable us to use them with more confidence. Each system of rules is encoded as…
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Plan Evaluation under Uncertainity
This article appeared in the Proceedings of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) Workshop on Innovative Approaches to Planning, Scheduling, and Control.
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Spoken Language In Interpreted Telephone Dialogues
This research outlines the predominant dialogue and performance characteristics of three-person interpreted telephone speech during service-oriented dialogues, in comparison with those of two-person non-interpreted dialogues.