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AISB91

Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, 16–19 April 1991, University of Leeds

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Luc Steels

    1. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

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  2. Barbara Smith

    1. School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

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Table of contents (23 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Distributed Intelligent Agents

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Deriving Transformers from Knowledge Organized as a Society of Agents

      • Anil S. Chakravarthy
      Pages 3-12

    3. Multiple Network Systems (Minos) Modules: Task Division and Module Discrimination

      • F. J. Śmieja
      Pages 13-25

    4. Commitments and Projects

      • Alan H. Bond
      Pages 26-35

    5. RR — An Intelligent Resource-Bounded Reasoner

      • Nuno J. Mamede, João P. Martins
      Pages 36-47

  3. Situatedness and Emergence in Autonomous Agents

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. A Cognitive Model of Goal-Oriented Automatisms and Breakdowns

      • Hugues Bersini
      Pages 51-61

    3. The ‘Logical Omniscience’ of Reactive Systems

      • Nigel Seel
      Pages 62-71

    4. A Connectionist Semantics for Spatial Descriptions

      • Stuart A. Jackson, Noel E. Sharkey
      Pages 72-83

    5. Neural Networks and Visual Behaviour: Flies; Panned Eyes; and Statistics

      • Dave Cliff
      Pages 84-93

    6. Specifying Complex Behavior for Computer Agents

      • Leslie Pack Kaelbling
      Pages 94-105

  4. New Modes of Reasoning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. Integrating Neural Network and Expert Reasoning: An Example

      • James Hendler, Leonard Dickens
      Pages 109-116

    3. An architecture for selective forgetting

      • Jérôme Euzenat, Libero Maesano
      Pages 117-128

    4. Constraintpropagation in Qualitative Modelling: Domain Variables Improve Diagnostic Efficiency

      • Bernhard Pfahringer
      Pages 129-135

    5. Recursive Plans

      • G. R. Ghassem-Sani, S. W. D. Steel
      Pages 136-146

  5. The Knowledge Level Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. Task Centered Representation for Expert Systems at the Knowledge Level

      • Christine Pierret-Golbreich, Isabelle Delouis
      Pages 149-159

    3. Knowledgeable knowledge acquisition

      • Han Reichgelt, Nigel Shadbolt
      Pages 160-171
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About this book

AISB91 is the eighth conference organized by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour. It is not only the oldest regular conference in Europe on AI - which spawned the ECAI conferences in 1982 - but it is also the conference that has a tradition for focusing on research as opposed to applications. The 1991 edition of the conference was no different in this respect. On the contrary, research, and particularly newly emerging research dir­ ections such as knowledge level expert systems research, neural networks and emergent functionality in autonomous agents, was strongly emphasised. The conference was organized around the following sessions: dis­ tributed intelligent agents, situatedness and emergence in autonomous agents, new modes of reasoning, the knowledge level perspective, and theorem proving and machine learning. Each of these sessions is discussed below in more detail. DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENT AGENTS Research in distributed AI is concerned with the problem of how multiple agents and societies of agents can be organized to co-operate and collectively solve a problem. The first paper by Chakravarty (MIT) focuses on the problem of evolving agents in the context of Minsky's society of mind theory. It addesses the question of how new agents can be formed by transforming existing ones and illustrates the theory with an example from game playing. Smieja (GMD, Germany) focuses on the problem of organizing networks of agents which consist internally of neural networks.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

    Luc Steels

  • School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Barbara Smith

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: AISB91

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Eighth Conference of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, 16–19 April 1991, University of Leeds

  • Editors: Luc Steels, Barbara Smith

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1852-7

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-19671-6Published: 29 April 1991

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-1852-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 265

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Modeling

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