{"title":"A Distributed Activity Processing System for AI","authors":"W. Harwood, Keith Hanna","doi":"10.5555/3015508.3015521","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/3015508.3015521","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is concerned with the development of a, primarily hardware, knowledge system with common sense like capabilities which eventually may prove more useful than 'logical deduction' systems. To this end the following section makes some observations about human intelligent behaviour and reformulates these in 'machine terms'. After this, two themes are developed (i) a simple set of control primitives for a distributed system, and (ii) the development of \"priority\" and \"relevance\" schemes to the above stated goal. What has been omitted from this paper is a detailed discussion of processor-processor deadly embraces and general network message saturation (although these are touched upon). This is a deliberate omission on the grounds that space precludes detailed discussion of this. The authors will be commenting else where on these aspects.","PeriodicalId":133823,"journal":{"name":"Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133705696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Formalism for Case Systems","authors":"L. Steels","doi":"10.5555/3015508.3015535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/3015508.3015535","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":133823,"journal":{"name":"Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117158821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ully: A Program for Handling Conversations","authors":"P. Hayes, M. Rosner","doi":"10.5555/3015508.3015522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/3015508.3015522","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":133823,"journal":{"name":"Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125938224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recognizing Plans and Summarizing Actions","authors":"C. Schmidt, N. S. Sridharan, J. L. Goodson","doi":"10.5555/3015508.3015536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/3015508.3015536","url":null,"abstract":"The structural aspects of an information processing theory of how persons understand the actions of others is presented. The process described is a constructive process which uses a plan schema to recognize the plans which account for the observed actions. The logical and psychological rules of plan consistency are presented and their use in plan recognition is described. One measure of the understanding of observed actions is the ability to summarize the observations. Properties of summaries are discussed and it is shown that these properties result from the plan recognition process.","PeriodicalId":133823,"journal":{"name":"Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133857302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Problems in Local Semantic Processing","authors":"G. Ritchie","doi":"10.5555/3015508.3015531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/3015508.3015531","url":null,"abstract":"Winograd's SHRDLU program carried out full semantic processing, including computing of referents, as it parsed. If we try to generalise this mechanism, certain difficulties arise concerning inadequate information about contexts of reference. This suggests that we may need to perform much of the semantic processing on senses rather than referents.","PeriodicalId":133823,"journal":{"name":"Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour","volume":"420 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122484924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seeing Puppets quickly","authors":"J. L. Paul","doi":"10.5555/3015508.3015530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/3015508.3015530","url":null,"abstract":"We are trying to interpret scenes containing a puppet with moveable limbs in order to try to understand how we can get an interpretation of the scene without noticing all the details. This involves the use of several intermediate descriptions (e.g. humanoid postures, occlusion, support).","PeriodicalId":133823,"journal":{"name":"Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114868425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Processing Newspaper Stories: Some Thoughts on fighting and Stylistics","authors":"M. Eisenstadt","doi":"10.5555/3015508.3015519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/3015508.3015519","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores two aspects of story understanding: (a) the representation of human motivations and intentions; (b) different stylistic mechanisms for inter-relating pairs of sentences. The former aspect is examined by attempting to represent some of the concepts necessary to understand a \"fighting\" episode in a short newspaper story about a civil war. The latter aspect is used to emphasize that some of the inferences necessary to understand a particular story may be guided by \"structural\" properties of the story which rule out certain expectations. Finally, a possible synthesis of these two aspects is suggested.","PeriodicalId":133823,"journal":{"name":"Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114768304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Extensible Deductive Systems in Mathematical Reasoning","authors":"F. Brown","doi":"10.5555/3015508.3015516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/3015508.3015516","url":null,"abstract":"We argue that significant improvement in deductive ability of automatic theorem provers presupposes the construction of deductive systems which make use of domain dependent mathematical knowledge and which can justify the results of using such knowledge in terms of the axioms of the given domain. We then briefly describe an implementation of a prototype deductive system of this nature for the domain of elementary set theory.","PeriodicalId":133823,"journal":{"name":"Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129363832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design Choices for a World-Modelling System","authors":"R. Young","doi":"10.5555/3015508.3015543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/3015508.3015543","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of adequately simulating an environment containing simultaneous actions and continuous processes is discussed. Two different approaches are outlined and compared on six design issues. It is argued that the six choices are not independent, and that when their mutual constraints are taken into account there are only four main families of world-modelling systems, differing primarily on the issues of Units of Simulation and Activation of Processes, The strengths and weaknesses of the different designs are explored.","PeriodicalId":133823,"journal":{"name":"Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125752858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Frame and Focus Problems in AI: Discussion in Relation to the Believer System","authors":"N. S. Sridharan","doi":"10.5555/3015508.3015538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5555/3015508.3015538","url":null,"abstract":"There are two types of reasoning about actions - Planning and Interpretation. We are involved in the Interpretation of observed sequences of actions using a psychological theory of act interpretation. The Interpreter uses a model space to maintain a current description of the observational world. There are two kinds of problems in maintaining a model - Consistency with respect to what we know about the domain and Correctness with respect to an external observable world. Past discussions of the problem have dealt mainly with the Issue of consistency. The issue of ensuring correctness is a difficult one and this paper proposes the Heuristic of using the detected inconsistencies of the model state as a guide to selectively removing disparities between the model state and the observable world. A Knowledge Representation Framework is described which allows all aspects of the Frame Problem to be tackled coherently. An example is given to illustrate our approach and an indication of the rule learning capability of the system Is given. The Focus problem for the Observer is introduced and Is shown to be complementary to the Frame Problem for the modelling system.","PeriodicalId":133823,"journal":{"name":"Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123196377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}