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Artificial Intelligence - Research and Applications
Nils J. Nilsson, A.E. Brain, Thomas D. Garvey, J.M. Tenenbaum, J.M. Agin, Barbara G. Deutsch, D.C. Lynch, H.G. Barrow, Richard E. Fikes, & Earl D. Sacerdoti

Our research program concentrates especially on the development of systems that can automatically generate and execute complex plans and that can obtain information about their environment through the sense of vision.

Apr, 1974 Journal Download PDF Details
Communication and Interaction In Multi-Agent Planning
Michael P. Georgeff

A method for synthesizing multi-agent plans from simpler single-agent plans is described. The idea is to insert communication acts into the single-agent plans so that agents can synchronize activities and avoid harmful interactions.

Dec, 1984 Journal Download PDF Details
Decision-Making In An Embedded Reasoning System
Francois Felix Ingrand, & Michael P. Georgeff

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.

Feb, 1990 Journal Download PDF Details
Dialogic: A Core Natural-Language Processing System
Barbara J. Grosz, Norman Haas, Gary G. Hendrix, Jerry R. Hobbs, Paul Martin, Robert C. Moore, Jane J. Robinson, & Stanley J. Rosenschein

The DIALOGIC system translates English sentences into representations of their literal meaning in the context of an utterance.

Nov, 1982 Journal Download PDF Details
Domain-specific Assessment: What Foundational Concepts and Reasoning Skills are Community College Students Learning?
Louise Yarnall, Larry Gallagher, Geneva Haertel, Patrick Lundh, & Yukie Toyama

The Domain-Specific Assessment project developed a set of tools and assessment items that measure students’ capacity to apply knowledge rather than simply memorize vast amounts of it. An overview of the approach to the methodology is presented in this paper.

Apr, 2011 Miscellaneous Download PDF Details
Topics: Assessment Design + Evaluation Community College: Transitions Community College: Reform to Support Real-World Learning School Improvement: Student Success
Early Implementation of Ready Schools Miami: Findings of the First-Year Evaluation
Shari Golan, Marjorie Wechsler, Ashley Campbell, C.J. Park, Dana Petersen, & Mario Snow

In only a year, Ready Schools partners have made significant progress toward improving the systems in Miami-Dade County that contribute to school readiness and success—early care, education, health and family support. This report presents findings of the first year of evaluation.

Dec, 2008 Technical Report Download PDF Details
Topics: Case Studies in Education Early Childhood Educational Impact Evaluation Implementation Evaluation School + Community Partnerships School Improvement: Student Success
Evaluation of the Texas High School Project: Third Comprehensive Annual Report
Viki Young, Nancy Adelman, Nancy Bier, Lauren Cassidy, Kyle Goss, Ann House, Kaeli Keating, C.J. Park, David Sherer, Corinne Singleton, Victoria Tse, Haiwen Wang, Kaily Yee, Kristin Klopfenstein, & Priyanka Singh

Third and culminating report of the four-year longitudinal evaluation of the Texas High School Project (THSP).

Dec, 2011 Technical Report Details
Topics: School Improvement Science, Technology, Engineering + Mathematics Education
Evidential Reasoning For Geographic Evaluation For Helicopter, Route Planning
Thomas D. Garvey

In order to plan operations where knowledge of significant elements is imprecise and uncertain, a means of characterizing the situation in terms of the various factors that may influence those operations must be provided.

Dec, 1986 Journal Download PDF Details
Evidential Reasoning: An Implementation For Multisensor Integration
John D. Lowrance , & Thomas D. Garvey

Reasoning from uncertain, incomplete, and sometimes inaccurate information is necessary whenever any system is to interact in an intelligent way with its environment.

Dec, 1983 Journal Download PDF Details
Focusing and Description In Natural Language Dialogues
Barbara J. Grosz

When two people talk, they focus their attention on only a small portion of what each of them knows or believes. Both what is said and how it is interpreted depend on a shared understanding of this narrowing of attention to a small highlighted portion of what is known.

Apr, 1979 Journal Download PDF Details