Accession Number:
ADA037843
Title:
Production Systems as a Programming Language for Artificial Intelligence Applications. Volume I.
Descriptive Note:
Interim rept.,
Corporate Author:
CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA DEPT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
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Report Date:
1976-12-01
Pagination or Media Count:
153.0
Abstract:
This thesis develops a system architecture for artificial intelligence AI, called production systems PSs. Each production is a simple condition-action rule, with conditions stated on a global Working Memory and actions consisting primarily of simple modifications to that memory. Actions can also consist of forming new productions. PSs have been applied to a limited extent in computer science and to a somewhat larger extent to specialized studies in AI. Evaluations of PSs as a programming language are made according to the traits practical feasibility, style, degree of theory-boundness, power and overhead of expression, productivity, efficiency, architectural flexibility, and level. PSs are found to be effective and advantageous for the programming constructs typical of AI systems.
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Subject Categories:
- Computer Programming and Software
- Computer Hardware
- Bionics