Artificial intelligence (AI) began as the quest to create machines that could think for themselves and (perhaps) out-think humans: the holy grail of computing! Over the years, while still exploring the mechanisms that enable thought, AI has evolved into a more pragmatic discipline. AI uses different strategies to solve the complex practical ...
One effect of information technology is the increasing need to present information visually. The trend raises intriguing questions. What is the logical status of reasoning that employs visualization? What are the cognitive advantages and pitfalls of this reasoning? What kinds of tools can be developed to aid in the use of visual representation? ...
Challenging the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the world, this text aims to fill the gap in science and technology studies by showing how gender is inscribed in AI-based computer systems. Drawing from a wide range of social science, philosophical and feminist theory, and using tools of feminist epistemology, the author ...
The idea of knowledge bases lies at the heart of symbolic, or "traditional", artificial intelligence. A knowledge-based system describes how to act by running formal reasoning procedures over a body of explicitly represented knowledge - a knowledge base. The system is not programmed for specific tasks; rather, it is told what it needs to know and ...
How the way we hold knowledge about the past - in books, in file folders, in databases - affects the kind of stories we tell about that past. The way we record knowledge, and the web of technical, formal, and social practices that surrounds it, inevitably affects the knowledge that we record. The ways we hold knowledge about the past - in hand ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI-96, held in Dresden, Germany, in September 1996.The book presents three invited papers together with 23 revised full research papers, nine posters and four systems demonstrations. All contributions were carefully selected from a ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS'99, held in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA in July 1999. The 34 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. Also included is a 65 page proposed draft standard for conceptual graphs. The ...
This book constitutes the thoroughly revised and refereed post-workshop documentation of two international workshops held in conjunction with the Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI'96, in Cairns, Australia, in August 1996.The volume presents 14 revised full papers togehter with two invited contributions and two ...
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS '96, held in Sydney, Australia, in August 1996.The book presents five full papers by the invited speakers together with 15 revised full papers selected for presentation at the conference from a respectable number of submissions. ...
This volume presents the proceedings of the 18th German Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KI-94), held in Saarbrucken in September 1994. Besides the invited paper "AI approaches towards sensor-based support in road vehicles" by H. -H. Nagel, the book contains 33 full research papers and 12 poster presentations selected from a total ...
This book is the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS '94, held at College Park, Maryland, USA in August 1994. This proceedings presents, on an international scale, up-to- the-minute research results on theoretical and applicational aspects of conceptual graphs, particularly on the use of contexts in ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2001, held in Stanford, CA, USA in July/August 2001. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the proceedings. The book offers topical sections on language and knowledge structures, ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS'98, held in Montpellier, France, in August 1998. The 20 revised full papers and 10 research reports presented were carefully selected from a total of 66 submissions; also included are three invited contributions. The volume is divided ...
This book constitutes the documentation of the results achieved within a proirity program on spatial cognition established by the German Science Foundation (DFG) in 1996 involving 13 research groups in Germany and leading scientists from abroad.The 22 revised full papers included were first presented during a colloquium in fall 1997 and then went ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, SBIA '95, held in Campinas, Brazil, in October 1995. The book presents three invited papers and 31 revised full papers selected from a total 57 submissions, more than half of them coming from abroad. The papers are organized in sections on ...
This book presents essays in which a diverse group of philosophers, linguists, psycholinguists, and neuroscientists - including both proponents and critics of the modularity hypothesis - address general questions and specific problems related to modularity.
This book develops, for the first time, a qualitative model for the representation of spatial knowledge based only on locative relations between the objects involved. The core of this book is devoted to the study of qualitative inference methods that take into account the rich structure of space. These methods can be applied to quite a number of ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, SBIA'98, held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in November 1998. The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 61 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on multi-agent systems, ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, FoIKS 2000, held in Burg, Germany, in February 2000. The 14 revised full papers and four short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 45 submissions. Among the topics addressed are logical ...
This book has its source in the question of whether anyknowledge engineering tools can be applied or analyzed incognition research and what insights and methods ofcognitive science might be relevant for knowledge engineers. It presents the proceedings of a workshop organized by theSpecial Interest Groups Cognition and Knowledge Engineeringof ...
In this book, the author develops an object-centered framework with specialized support of the part-of relation based on description logics. These logics are a family of object-centered knowledge representation languages tailored for describing knowledge about concepts and is-a hierarchies of these concepts. In addition to the representation and ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, FoIKS 2002, held at Salzau Castle, Germany in February 2002. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 55 submissions. All current issues on the foundations and ...
This work provides a comprehensive and coherent introduction to the expanding field of Artificial Intelligence (Al), explaining how knowledge-based systems are built, what tools and technologies are relevant and available, and how to employ them in specific situations. It pays special attention to the commercial intelligence systems that emerged ...
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