Engineers Doing so would reduce demands on the OR and equipment specialists responsible for the analysts and provide additional time for them troublesome part, or end item, review the to address more complex analysis problems. MDR to identify the possible cause(s) of failure. Further, with the turnover of personnel in the In the past, engineers and equipment military and the aging of the aircraft fleet, specialists have turned to operations research another objective was to capture expertise (OR) analysts to assist in item performance from personnel who are most knowledgeable analysis. This analysis is usually time consuming about specific aircraft systems and federal and personnel intensive and requires stock classes (FSCs) and make this expertise information from many Air Force data systems. Center (ALC), located at Tinker Air Force Base, data collection and analysis require two person-days. This document describes an item's to the automation of SOURCE DATA: The data used to prepare this report came from the following sources: 1) Product Performance Subsystem (G099), 2) Supportability analysis Forecasting Evaluation (SAFE), 3) Flying Hours (G099), 4) MICAP Hours (D165B), and 5) VAMOSC (D160B). MAINTENANCE DATA (D056): A total of 175 inherent failures occurred between JUL 1991 and JUN 1992, which translates into a Mean Time Between Maintenance Type-1 (MTBM-1) of 162 hours.

This article summarizes the findings of a 1992 study of knowledge-based systems research and applications in Japan. Representatives of universities and businesses were chosen by the Japan Technology Evaluation Center to investigate the state of the technology in Japan relative to the United States. The panel's report focused on applications, tools, and research and development in universities and industry and on major national projects.

Real-time problem solving is not only reasoning about time, it is also reasoning in time. This ability is becoming increasingly critical in systems that monitor and control complex processes in semiautonomous, ill-structured, real-world environments. Many techniques, mostly ad hoc, have been developed in both the real-time community and the AI community for solving problems within time constraints. However, a coherent, holistic picture does not exist. This article is an attempt to step back from the details and examine the entire issue of real-time problem solving from first principles. We examine the degrees of freedom available in structuring the problem space and the search process to reduce problem-solving variations and produce satisficing solutions within the time available. This structured approach aids in understanding and sorting out the relevance and utility of different real-time problem-solving techniques.

The Hong Kong-based Mass Transit Railway Corp. (MTRC) has developed the Station Management Expert e Norwegian Police Data Center help predict aircraft fires and other System (SMES). SMES is an intelligent utilized an expert system to catastrophes. The police put and risk factors from the records functions and advising the controller the intelligent application online to of the National Transportation Safety of actions to take in case of emergency. The system is installed in Ya Ma at the games while complying with Carnegie Group and Westinghouse Tei Station as a test site, and the complex national employment regulations. Electric (both in Pittsburgh, Penn.) are MTRC plans to expand its use Plans are to deploy and network working with Pittsburgh area medical throughout the subway system as it the expert system into every law centers to develop an intelligent proves to be successful. The network Martin Marietta (Bethesda, Md.) is developed a neural network application will gather and organize data on using a real-time expert system to that has improved the efficiency clinical diagnoses, treatment, clinical build the Traffic Operations Center of its direct mail marketing efforts by and research findings, and patient (TOC) component of its Intelligent 35%.

Immediately preceding the 1993 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (NCAI) in Washington D.C., a new conference series on the application of AI to molecular biology was inaugurated in neighboring Bethesda, Maryland. The First International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB-93), held 6-9 July 1993 at the Lister Hill Center of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), attracted over 200 computer scientists and biologists from 13 countries.

The Second Annual Robotics Competition and Exhibition was held in July 1993 in conjunction with the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. This article reports some of my experiences in helping to design and run the contest and some reflections, drawn from post mortem abstracts written by the competitors, on the relation of the contest to current research efforts in mobile robotics.

Science deals with knowledge of the material world based on objective reality. It is under constant attack by those who need magic, that is, concepts based on imagination and desire, with no basis in objective reality. A convenient target for such people is speculation on the machinery and method of operation of the human mind, questions that are still obscure in 1994. In The Emperor's New Mind, Roger Penrose attempts to look beyond objective reality for possible answers, using, in his argument, the theory that computers will never be able to duplicate the human experience. This article attempts to show where Penrose is in error by reviewing the evolution of men and computers and, based on this review, speculates about where computers might and might not imitate human perception. It then warns against the dangers of passive acceptance when respected scientists venture into the occult.

The First covered genetic algorithms, neural elements called alpha helices and International Conference on Intelligent networks, and linguistic methods for beta sheets can be predicted with Systems for Molecular Biology sequence analysis. Invited speakers, some success, using algorithms that (ISMB-93), held 6-9 July 1993 at the who opened each day of the conference, examine a window of surrounding Lister Hill Center of the National were Temple Smith (Boston primary sequence.

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence sponsored a number of workshops in conjunction with the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence held 11-15 July 1993 in Washington, D.C. This article contains reports of four of the workshops that were conducted: AI Models for System Engineering, Case-Based Reasoning, Reasoning about Function, and Validation and Verification of Knowledge Based Systems.

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence held its 1993 Fall Symposium Series on October 22-24 in Raleigh, North Carolina. This article contains summaries of the six symposia that were conducted: Automated Deduction in Nonstandard Logics; Games: Planning and Learning; Human-Computer Collaboration: Reconciling Theory, Synthesizing Practice; Instantiating Intelligent Agents; and Machine Learning and Computer Vision: What, Why, and How?