Accession Number:

ADA210330

Title:

Northeast Artificial Intelligence Consortium Annual Report for 1987. Volume 5. Building an Intelligent Assistant: The Acquisition, Integration, and Maintenance of Complex Distributed Tasks

Descriptive Note:

Interim rept. Dec 1986-1987

Corporate Author:

SYRACUSE UNIV NY

Personal Author(s):

• Lesser, Victor
• Croft, W. B.
• Woolf, Beverly

Report Date:

1989-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

581.0

Abstract:

The Northeast Artificial Intelligence Consortium NAIC was created to conduct pertinent research in artificial intelligence and to perform activities ancillary to this research. The topics covered in general are versatile expert system for equipment maintenance distributed AI for communications system control, automatic photo interpretation, time-oriented problem solving, speech understanding systems, knowledge base maintenance, hardware architectures for very large systems, knowledge-based reasoning and planning, and a knowledge acquisition, assistance, and explanation system. The specific topic for this volume is the development of intelligent interfaces to support cooperating computer users in their interactions with a computer. Keywords Artificial intelligence Intelligent interfaces Planning Plan recognition Intelligence computer aided instruction.

Descriptors:

• *SPEECH RECOGNITION
• *PHOTOINTERPRETATION
• *COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
• *ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
• TIME DEPENDENCE
• INTERFACES
• COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
• PROBLEM SOLVING
• PLANNING
• COMMUNICATION AND RADIO SYSTEMS
• COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION
• CONSORTIUMS
• AUTOMATIC
• ACQUISITION
• MILITARY FACILITIES
• CONTROL
• COMPUTER PROGRAMS
• MAINTENANCE

Subject Categories:

• Cybernetics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE