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The Use of Censors for Nonmonotonic Reasoning and Analogy in Medical Desicion-Making
(1985-11-01)
A patient rarely has a single, isolated disease. The situation is usually much more complex since the different parts of the human organism and metabolism interact with each other and follow several feedback patterns. ...
Justified Generalization: Acquiring Procedures from Examples
(1985-01-01)
This thesis describes an implemented system called NODDY for acquiring procedures from examples presented by a teacher. Acquiring procedures form examples involves several different generalization tasks. Generalization ...
TEMPEST: A Template Editor for Structured Text
(1985-06-01)
TEMPEST is a full-screen text editor that incorporates a structural paradigm in addition to the more traditional textual paradigm provided by most editors. While the textual paradigm treats the text as a sequence of ...
ACTORS: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems
(1985-06-01)
A foundational model of concurrency is developed in this thesis. We examine issues in the design of parallel systems and show why the actor model is suitable for exploiting large-scale parallelism. Concurrency in actors ...
The Revised Revised Report on Scheme or An Uncommon Lisp
(1985-08-01)
Data and procedures and the values they amass, Higher-order functions to combine and mix and match, Objects with their local state, the message they pass, A property, a package, the control of point for a catch- In the ...
Computing Visible-Surface Representations
(1985-03-01)
The low-level interpretation of images provides constraints on 3D surface shape at multiple resolutions, but typically only at scattered locations over the visual field. Subsequent visual processing can be facilitated ...
Mobile Robot Localization Using Sonar
(1985-01-01)
This paper describes a method by which range data from a sonar or other type of rangefinder can be used to determine the 2-dimensional position and orientation of a mobile robot inside a room. The plan of the room is ...
The Anatomy and Physiology of Gating Retinal Signals in the Mammalian Lateral Geniculate Nucleus
(1985-06-01)
In the mammalian visual system, the lateral geniculate nucleus is commonly thought to act merely as a relay for the transmission of visual information from the retina to the visual cortex, a relay without significant ...
Describing Surfaces
(1985-01-01)
This paper continues our work on visual representation s of three-dimensional surfaces [Brady and Yuille 1984b]. The theoretical component of our work is a study of classes of surface curves as a source of constraint ...
Generating and Generalizing Models of Visual Objects
(1985-07-01)
We report on initial experiments with an implemented learning system whose inputs are images of two-dimensional shapes. The system first builds semantic network descriptions of shapes based on Brady's smoothed local ...