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Interactions between learning and evolution

Classics

In Langton, C., Taylor, C., Farmer, J. D., and Ramussen, S. (Eds.), Artificial Life II, pp. 487–509. Addison-Wesley


Systematic nonlinear planning

Classics

The paper Systematic Nonlinear Planning (published in the Proceedings of the Ninth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-91) won the AAAI-10 classic paper award. The commentary by Daniel S. Weld describes the two major impacts the paper had on the field of automated planning.See also:Commentary by Dan WeldAn Introduction to Least Commitment Planning, Daniel S. Weld, AI Magazine, Vol 15, No 4 Proc. AAAI-91, Vol. 2, pp. 634–639


A Robot Exploration and Mapping Strategy

Classics

At the control level, distinctive places and distinctive travel edges are identified based on the interaction between the robot's control strategies, its sensorimotor system, and the world. A distinctive place is defined as the local maximum of a distinctiveness measure appropriate to its immediate neighborhood, and is found by a hill-climbing control strategy. A distinctive travel edge, similarly, is defined by a suitable measure and a path-following control strategy. The topological network description is created by linking the distinctive places and travel edges. Metrical information is then incrementally assimilated into local geometric descriptions of places and edges, and finally merged into a global geometric map.





Experiments with Proof Plans for Induction

Classics

Abstraction, in contrast to meta-level inference, works with a degenerate version of the object-level space in which some essential detail is thrown away. Because abstract plans are strongly tied to the object-level space, they are limited in their expressive power.