AI '88

The latest proceedings of a conference that brings business, industry and researchers together to consider the current activities and future potential of artificial intelligence, encompassing both practical and theoretical issues.

Inhalt
A perspective on the nature of artificial intelligence.- What can massively parallel architectures bring to AI?.- Herbicide advisory systems: Weeds in wheat and other crops.- A real-time knowledge-based system for frequency management in communications.- Experiences in developing an intelligent operator guidance system.- Combining heuristics and simulation models.- The use of expert knowledge in the selection of CIG welding consumables.- A knowledge based simulation of critical incidents in anaesthesia.- DISSOLVE : A system for the generation of human oriented solutions to algebraic equations.- Student modelling in a keyboard scale tutoring system.- Contradictions and revisions as explanatory aids in the delivery of technical information.- A case study in deterministic prolog.- Exploring the epistemic labyrinth: New directions in the formal theory of knowledge representation.- A temporal relational calculus.- Counterfactuals, cotenability and consistency.- A knowledge acquisition tool for decision support systems.- Adaptive data stores.- Techniques for efficient empirical induction.- Representing exceptions in rule-based systems.- Conceptual graphs from a knowledge systems viewpoint.- Implementing second generation rule-based financial applications today.- Knowledge in context: A strategy for expert system maintenance.- Integrating knowledge acquisition and performance systems.- A machine vision system with learning capabilities.- Range from out of focus blur.- Environment mapping with a mobile robot using sonar.- Incorporating knowledge via regularization theory: applications in vision and image processing.- Common-sense resolution of syntactic ambiguity in database queries.- Capability based natural language understanding.- Character pattern recognition on a computational neural network.- Distributed planning and control for manufacturing operations.- Parallelism in nonmonotonic multiple inheritance systems.