Author: SRI International

  • Teamwork

    In this paper, we argue that a joint activity is one that is performed by individuals sharing certain specific mental properties. We then show how these properties affect and are affected by properties of the participants.

  • 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.

  • 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 result of combining them into a joint measure of distinguishability between possible worlds, is briefly discussed.

  • Fodor and Psychological Explanations

    Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Center, AIC

  • 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 of interest. The phenomena that typically give rise to Simpson’s paradox can occur in cases such as destructive testing, and identifying the composition of complex…

  • Information and Architecture

    This paper is a continuation of [1] and builds on both the theory and the terminology of that earlier work.

  • 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 ? Que peut-on en faire ?

  • 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 System, that provides mechanisms for the management and control of deliberation and reasoning in real-time domains.

  • 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.

  • Intelligent monitoring and diagnosis of semiconductor manufacturing

    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.

  • Syntactic Constraints On Anaphoric Binding

    One of the primary advantages of the treatment of syntactic constraints on anaphoric binding that has been presented here is that it provides a framework for stating binding constraints in a precise manner. The framework makes explicit predictions as to which noun phrases will be considered when anaphoric binding constraints are applied.

  • Approximate Reasoning: Past, Present, Future

    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 descriptive framework, we will argue that, far from being mere approximations of logically correct procedures, approximate reasoning methods are also sound techniques that describe the…