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AAAI's World Wide Web Site serves as a Effective for 1996 the Association has central resource for individuals involved in

SOAR is one of the oldest and largest AI development efforts, starting formally in 1983. It has also been proposed as a unified theory of cognition (Newell 1990). Most of its current development is as an AI programming language, which was evident at the Twenty-Second SOAR Workshop held at Soar Technology near the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on 1-2 June 2002.

Digital Warriors -- Artificial Intelligence the group sought white papers included: a Time. May Help Spot Future Terrorism Attacks. The have the time to follow developments in patterns and spot trouble. But he is catching up. says a well-designed computer program "Scientists at Kingston University The first corporate board Walesa, 58, has can do what humans do, and maybe even in London have developed software agreed to join is that of NuTech Solutions, do a better job at it. '[It's] the same as a able to anticipate if someone is about to a closely held company founded three '[It] investigates years ago in Charlotte, N.C., by a pair of It works by examining images coming leads, forms hypotheses, and narrows Polish immigrants. The software, called Cromatica, FBI's Most Wanted: New IT Priorities joined NuTech primarily because he is passionate And if it is 2002 (zdnet.com.com). "On NBC's'Meet which he is studying avidly.

The problem of organizing information for multidocument summarization so that the generated summary is coherent has received relatively little attention. While sentence ordering for single document summarization can be determined from the ordering of sentences in the input article, this is not the case for multidocument summarization where summary sentences may be drawn from different input articles. In this paper, we propose a methodology for studying the properties of ordering information in the news genre and describe experiments done on a corpus of multiple acceptable orderings we developed for the task. Based on these experiments, we implemented a strategy for ordering information that combines constraints from chronological order of events and topical relatedness. Evaluation of our augmented algorithm shows a significant improvement of the ordering over two baseline strategies.

Because of military drawdowns and the need for additional transportation lift requirements, the United States Marine Corps developed a concept that enabled it to modify a commercial container ship to support deployed aviation units. However, a problem soon emerged in that there were too few people who were expert enough to do the unique type of planning required for this ship. Additionally, once someone did develop some expertise, it was time for him/her to move on, retire, or leave active duty. TALPS is now a fielded, certified application for Marine Corps aviation.

The innovative reapplication of a multiagent system for human-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation was a consequence of appropriate agent-oriented design. The use of intelligent agents for simulating human decision making offers the potential for analysis and design methodologies that do not distinguish between agent and human until implementation. With this as a driver in the design process, the construction of systems in which humans and agents can be interchanged is simplified. The experiences gained from this process indicate that it is simpler, both in design and implementation, to add humans to a system designed for intelligent agents than it is to add intelligent agents to a system designed for humans.

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The innovative reapplication of a multiagent system for human-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation was a consequence of appropriate agent-oriented design. The use of intelligent agents for simulating human decision making offers the potential for analysis and design methodologies that do not distinguish between agent and human until implementation. With this as a driver in the design process, the construction of systems in which humans and agents can be interchanged is simplified. Two systems have been constructed and deployed to provide defense analysts with the tools required to advise and assist the Australian Defense Force in the conduct of maritime surveillance and patrol. The experiences gained from this process indicate that it is simpler, both in design and implementation, to add humans to a system designed for intelligent agents than it is to add intelligent agents to a system designed for humans.

This book looks at some of the results of this synergy among AI, cognitive science, and education. Examples include virtual students whose misconceptions force students to reflect on their own knowledge, intelligent tutoring systems, and speech recognition technology that helps students learn to read. Some of the systems described are already used in classrooms and have been evaluated; a few are still laboratory efforts. The book also addresses cultural and political issues involved in the deployment of new educational technologies. ISBN 0-0-262-56141-7 To order call 800-405-1619.