Geneva1 Because of electrical interference Object classification is possible using three Things in the environment will consist of between robots, none of the competition kinds of sensors Parts of the scoring use an "naturally ocurring" items in the exhibition olympic-style judging The over-arching

All inquiries should include your travel support for students who are registration area. Now Exempt from applicants must have fulfilled your lab's research efforts to be the volunteer and reporting requirements California Sales Tax shown to a large portion of the AI for previous awards. This year, Recent California legislation required community. California that can be run in parallel on several who submit a letter of recommendation Senate Bill 89 (Chapter 461, screens. Please do not send tapes of a from a faculty supervisor in lieu Statutes of 1991)-signed by the governor particular project or lecture but, of a paper, student authors from foreign at press time-provides AAAI rather, tapes that present broad institutions, and foreign scholars.

The AAAI-90 Workshop on Qualitative Vision was held on Sunday, 29 July 1990. Over 50 researchers from North America, Europe, and Japan attended the workshop. This article contains a report of the workshop presentations and discussions.

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence held its 1991 Spring Symposium Series on March 26-28 at Stanford University, Stanford, California. This article contains short summaries of the eight symposia that were conducted: Argumentation and Belief, Composite System Design, Connectionist Natural Language Processing, Constraint-Based Reasoning, Implemented Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Systems, Integrated Intelligent Architectures, Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning, and Machine Learning of Natural Language and Ontology.

A fundamental question in AI is what mechanisms suffice for computer programs to make scientific discoveries. My Ph.D. thesis addresses this question by automating the following scientific task to a significant extent: Given observed data about a particular chemical reaction, discover the underlying set of reaction steps from starting materials to products, that is, elucidate the reaction pathway.

Bratman's definition of intention is papers range from philosophical This review is organized around the jumping-off point for Cohen and analyses of the concept of intention three of the themes that are sounded Levesque's two papers: "Persistence, to algorithms for recognizing plans, in Intentions in Communication: (1) Intention, and Commitment" and from logical formalizations of speech foundational work on intention and "Rational Interaction as the Basis of acts to analyses of intonational contours its relation to speech act theory, (2) Communication."

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Building new knowledge-based systems today usually entails constructing new knowledge bases from scratch. It could instead be done by assembling reusable components. System developers would then only need to worry about creating the specialized knowledge and reasoners new to the specific task of their system. This new system would interoperate with existing systems, using them to perform some of its reasoning. In this way, declarative knowledge, problem- solving techniques, and reasoning services could all be shared among systems. This approach would facilitate building bigger and better systems cheaply. The infrastructure to support such sharing and reuse would lead to greater ubiquity of these systems, potentially transforming the knowledge industry. This article presents a vision of the future in which knowledge-based system development and operation is facilitated by infrastructure and technology for knowledge sharing. It describes an initiative currently under way to develop these ideas and suggests steps that must be taken in the future to try to realize this vision.

There has been a good deal of discussion recently about the possibility of standardizing knowledge representation efforts, including the development of an interlingua, or knowledge interchange format (KIF), that would allow developers of declarative knowledge to share their results with other AI researchers. In this article, I examine the practicality of this idea. I present some philosophical arguments against it, describe a straw-man KIF, and suggest specific experiments that would help explore these issues.

This article argues that autonomy, not problem-solving prowess, is the key property that defines the intuitive notion of "intelligent creature." To build an intelligent artificial entity that will act autonomously, we must first understand the attributes of a system that lead us to call it autonomous. The presence of these attributes gives autonomous systems the appearance of nondeterminism, but they can all be present in deterministic artifacts and living systems. We argue that autonomy means having the right kinds of goals and the ability to select goals from an existing set, not necessarily creating new goals. We analyze the concept of goals in problem-solving systems in general and establish criteria for the types of goals that characterize autonomy.