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Diagram Understanding: The Intersection of Computer Vision and Graphics
(1985-11-01)
A problem common to Computer Vision and Computer Graphics is identified. It is the problem of representing, acquiring and validating symbolic descriptions of visual properties. The intersection of Computer Vision and ...
Planning for Conjunctive Goals
(1985-11-01)
The problem of achieving conjunctive goals has been central to domain independent planning research; the nonlinear constraint-posting approach has been most successful. Previous planners of this type have been comlicated, ...
KBEmacs: A Step Toward the Programmer's Apprentice
(1985-05-01)
The Knowledge-Based Editor in Emacs (KBEmacs) is the current demonstration system implemented as part of the Programmer's Apprentice project. KBEmacs is capable of acting as a semi-expert assistant to a person who is ...
The Structures of Everyday Life
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1985-02)
This note descends from a talk I gave at the AI Lab's Revolving Seminar series in November 1984. I offer it as an informal introduction to some work I've been doing over the last year on common sense reasoning. Four themes ...
Exceptional Situations in Lisp
(MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 1985-02)
Frequently, it is convenient to describe a program in terms of the normal situations in which it will be used, even if such a description does not describe the its complete behavior in all circumstances. This paper surveys ...
Routines
(1985-05-01)
Regularities in the word give rise to regularities in the way which we deal with the world. That is to say, we fall into routines. I have been studying the phenomena of routinization, the process by which institutionalized ...
Toward a Surface Primal Sketch
(1985-04-01)
This paper reports progress toward the development of a representation of significant surface changes in dense depth maps. We call the representation the Surface Primal Sketch by analogy with representation of intensity ...
Circumscribing Circumscription: A Guide to Relevance and Incompleteness
(1985-10-01)
Intelligent agents in the physical world must work from incomplete information due to partial knowledge and limited resources. An agent copes with these limitations by applying rules of conjecture to make reasonable ...
The Optical Flow of Planar Surfaces
(1985-12-01)
The human visual system can recover the 3D shape of moving objects on the basis of motion information alone. Computational studies of this capacity have considered primarily non-planar rigid objects. With respect to ...
Concurrent Programming Using Actors: Exploiting Large-Scale Parallelism
(1985-10-01)
We argue that the ability to model shared objects with changing local states, dynamic reconfigurability, and inherent parallelism are desirable properties of any model of concurrency. The actor model addresses these ...