Browsing MIT by Subject "problem solving"
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CAULDRONS: An Abstraction for Concurrent Problem Solving
(1986-09-01)This research extends a tradition of distributed theories of mind into the implementation of a distributed problem solver. In this problem solver a number of ideas from Minsky's Society of Mind are implemented and are ...
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Qualitative Process Theory
(1984-07-01)Objects move, collide, flow, bend, heat up, cool down, stretch, compress and boil. These and other things that cause changes in objects over time are intuitively characterized as processes. To understand common sense ...
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The Scientific Community Metaphor
(1981-01-01)Scientific communnities have proven to be extremely successful at solving problems. They are inherently parallel systems and their macroscopic nature makes them amenable to careful study. In this paper the character of ...
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Supporting Organizational Problem Solving with a Workstation
(1982-07-01)This paper describes an approach to supporting work in the office. Using and extending ideas from the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) we describe office work as a problem solving activity. A knowledge embedding ...