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Heuristics for Job-Shop Scheduling
(1988-01-01)
Two methods of obtaining approximate solutions to the classic General Job-shop Scheduling Program are investigated. The first method is iterative. A sampling of the solution space is used to decide which of a collection ...
Computation and Pre-Parametric Design
(1988-09-01)
My work is broadly concerned with the question "How can designs bessynthesized computationally?" The project deals primarily with mechanical devices and focuses on pre-parametric design: design at the level of detail ...
Reflectance Map Techniques for Analyzing Surface Defects in Metal Castings
(1978-06-01)
This report explores the relation between image intensity and object shape. It is shown that image intensity is related to surface orientation and that a variation in image intensity is related to surface curvature. ...
Shape from Shading: A Method for Obtaining the Shape of a Smooth Opaque Object from One View
(1970-11-01)
A method will be described for finding the shape of a smooth apaque object form a monocular image, given a knowledge of the surface photometry, the position of the lightsource and certain auxiliary information to ...
Dependency Directed Reasoning for Complex Program Understanding
(1979-04-01)
Artificial Intelligence research involves the creation of extremely complex programs which must possess the capability to introspect, learn, and improve their expertise. Any truly intelligent program must be able to ...
Some Aspects of Pattern Recognition by Computer
(1967-02-01)
A computer may gather a lot of information from its environment in an optical or graphical manner. A scene, as seen for instance from a TV camera or a picture, can be transformed into a symbolic description of points ...
Information Processing and Transmission in Cellular Automata
(1971-01-01)
A cellular automaton is an iterative array of very simple identical information processing machines called cells. Each cell can communicate with neighboring cells. At discrete moments of time the cells can change from ...
Understanding Simple Picture Programs
(1974-04-01)
What are the characteristics of the process by which an intent is transformed into a plan and then a program? How is a program debugged? This paper analyzes these questions in the context of understanding simple turtle ...
Assimilation of New Information by a Natural Language Understanding System
(1974-02-01)
This work describes a program, called TOPLE, which uses a procedural model of the world to understand simple declarative sentences. It accepts sentences in a modified predicate calculus symbolism, and uses plausible ...
A System for Representing and Using Real-World Knowledge
(1977-12-01)
This report describes a knowledge-base system in which the information is stored in a network of small parallel processing elements ??de and link units ??ich are controlled by an external serial computer. This network ...