Publications
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Achieving Several Goals Simultaneously
This paper develops the following strategy: to achieve two goals simultaneously, develop a plan to achieve one of them and then modify that plan to achieve the second as well.…
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Expanding the Utility of Semantic Networks Through Partitioning
These net spaces delimit the scopes of quantified variables, distinguish hypothetical and imaginary situations from reality, encode alternative worlds considered in planning, and focus attention at particular levels of detail.
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Progress on a Computer Based Consultant
Computer based consultants are systems that incorporate specialized bodies of knowledge and make this knowledge conveniently available to users who are not computer experts.
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Nonlinear Nature of Plans
This paper describes a new information structure, called the procedural net, that represents a plan as a partial ordering of action with respect to time.
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Knowledge and Reasoning In Program Synthesis
We describe some of the reasoning and programming capabilities of a projected synthesis system with special attention paid to the introduction of conditional tests, loops, and instructions with wide effects…
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Digital Processing of Breast Thermograms
The Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI has digitized and processed a series of breast thermograms of positive patients. To improve the medical value of such imagery for the radiologist, several…
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The Structure of Task-Oriented Dialogs
The discourse and task information in task oriented dialogs and their use in a speech understand system are discussed in this paper.
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Structure of Task Oriented Dialogs
The discourse and task information in task oriented dialogs and their use in a speech understanding system are discussed in this paper.
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ISIS: An Interactive Facility for Scene Analysis Research
This paper summarizes initial progress in developing a computer system that can be rapidly programmed to analyze any class of pictorial scenes. We have constructed an interactive system specifically designed…
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Plan for a Computer-Based Consultant System
This report describes the goals and plans for a five-year project to develop a computer-based system that will serve as an expert consultant to a human apprentice. Together, the system…
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A Best-First Parser
The parser uses a best-first strategy in which alternative paths are assigned priorities and paths are suspended as long as there is a higher priority alternative to explore.
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Artificial Intelligence – Research and Applications
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…