Research In Progress at the Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International

The representation language used in one domain is seldom biology, management-indeed in most of the world's workthe borrowed and adapted to another, because the facilities that daily tasks are those requiring symbolic reasoning with were assets for one task become limitations elsewhere. The computers that will act this reason, most such languages are built from scratch. The as "intelligent assistants" for these professionals must be goal of the RLL effort is to reduce the amount of time RLL contains a large library of "representational pieces," for example, the mode of inheritance used by the Examples link of the Units package, or the A-Kind-Of type of Artificial Intelligence Center slot used in the MIT Frames Representation Language, FRL. Menlo Park, CA 94025 amalgamation of pieces; RLL is responsible for meshing them together into a coherent and working whole. A more advanced Peter Hart, Director user can exploit RLL's mechanisms for designing new parts, Earl Sacerdoti, Associate Director for example, a new mode of inheritance, or a new type of Charles Untulis, Assistant Director format for a slot.