There is much talk about this being the Age of Information and about a Post-Industrial Revolution centered on information processing. But what exactly is information?
The development of reasoning systems that can reason and plan in a continuously changing environment is emerging as an important area of research in Artificial Intelligence.
Michael E Bratman, David J Israel, & Martha E. Pollack
An architecture for a rational agent must allow for means-end reasoning, for the weighing of competing alternatives, and for interactions between these two forms of reasoning.
This paper describes research concerned with automating the monitoring and control of spacecraft systems. In particular, the paper examines the application of SRI’s Procedural Reasoning System (PRS) to the handling of malfunctions in the Reaction Control System (RCS) of NASA’s space shuttle
