Toward a Unified Approach for Conceptual Knowledge Acquisition

Among other issues, Michalski stressed the importance of unification of terminology and extraction of general principles. Amarel suggested we need both theory and application, even within a single project (one supports the other).Another indicator: Chapter XIV Handbook of Artificial Intelligence (Dietterich, London, Clarkson & Dromey, 1982) compares and contrasts generalization methods; Michalski The author would like to thank Dave Coles for his comments on a draft of this article. AI is being related to cognitive science (Pylyshyn, 1982) and with control theory and pattern recognition (Buchanan, Mitchell & Smith, 1978).) This article suggests new ideas and attempts to relate them to some existing ones in AI. While the focus is heuristic learning in search, it is examined with broader intent.