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Surface Reconstruction Preserving Discontinuities
Marroquin, J.L.

Formato:
Enlaces:	Well-known methods for solving the shape-from-shading problem require knowledge of the reflectance map. Here we show how the shape-from-shading problem can be solved when the reflectance map is not available, but is known to have a given form with some…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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Consensus Knowledge Acquisition
Trice, Andrew - Davis, Randall

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Enlaces:	We have developed a method and prototype program for assisting two experts in their attempts to construct a single, consensus knowledge base. We show that consensus building can be effectively facilitated by a debugging approach that identifies, explains, and resolves…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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Knowledge Base Integration: What Can We Learn from Database Integration Research?
Lee, Jintae

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Enlaces:	This paper examines the issues and the solutions that have been studied in database (DB) integration research and tries to draw lessons from them for knowledge base (KB) integration.
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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Introduction to the Calculus of Knowledge
Raphael, Bertram

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Enlaces:	This paper deals with the "Calculus of Knowledge", an extension of the propositional calculus in which one may reason about what other people know. Semantic and Syntactic systems are developed, certain theorems are proven, and a formal solution in the…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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Artificial Intelligence, Language and the Study of Knowledge
Goldstein, Ira - Papert, Seymour

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Enlaces:	This paper studies the relationship of Artificial Intelligence to the study of language and the representation of the underlying knowledge which supports the comprehension process. It develops the view that intelligence is based on the ability to use large amounts…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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Capturing Intuitive Knowledge in Procedural Description
Bamberger, Jeanne

Formato:
Enlaces:	Trying to capture intuitive knowledge is a little like trying to capture the moment between what just happened and what is about to happen. Or to quote a famous philosopher, "You can't put your foot in the same river once."…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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A Comparative Analysis of Reinforcement Learning Methods
Mataric, Maja

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Enlaces:	This paper analyzes the suitability of reinforcement learning (RL) for both programming and adapting situated agents. We discuss two RL algorithms: Q-learning and the Bucket Brigade. We introduce a special case of the Bucket Brigade, and analyze and compare its…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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Phase Space Navigator: Towards Automating Control Synthesis in Phase Spaces for Nonlinear Control Systems
Zhao, Feng

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Enlaces:	We develop a novel autonomous control synthesis strategy called Phase Space Navigator for the automatic synthesis of nonlinear control systems. The Phase Space Navigator generates global control laws by synthesizing flow shapes of dynamical systems and planning and navigating system…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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Extracting and Representing Qualitative Behaviors of Complex Systems in Phase Spaces
Zhao, Feng

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Enlaces:	We develop a qualitative method for understanding and representing phase space structures of complex systems and demonstrate the method with a program, MAPS --- Modeler and Analyzer for Phase Spaces, using deep domain knowledge of dynamical system theory. Given a…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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10.

The Programmer's Apprentice Project: A Research Overview
Rich, Charles - Waters, Richard C.

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Enlaces:	The goal of the Programmer's Apprentice project is to develop a theory of how expert programmers analyze, synthesize, modify, explain, specify, verify, and document programs. This research goal overlaps both artificial intelligence and software engineering. From the viewpoint of artificial…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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11.

Levels of Complexity in Discourse for Reference Disambiguation and Speech Act Interpretation
Bullwinkle, Candace

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Enlaces:	This paper presents a discussion of means of describing the discourse and its components which makes speech act interpretation and reference disambiguation possible with minimal search of the knowledge in the database. A portion of this paper will consider how…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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12.

The Conniver Reference Manual
McDermott, Drew V. - Sussman, Gerald Jay

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Enlaces:	This manual is intended to be a guide to the philosophy and use of the programming language CONNIVER, which is "complete," and running at the AI Lab now. It assumes good knowledge of LISP, but no knowledge of Micro-Planner, in…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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13.

Thesis Progress Report: A System for Representing and Using Real-World Knowledg
Fahlman, Scott E.

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Enlaces:	This paper describes progress to date in the development of a system for representing various forms of real-world knowledge. The knowledge is stored in the form of a net of simple parallel processing elements, which allow certain types of deduction…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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14.

Wusor II: A Computer Aided Instruction Program with Student Modelling Capabilities
Carr, Brian

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Enlaces:	Wusor II is the second program that has been developed to tutor students in the game of Wumpus. From the earlier efforts with Wusor I it was possible to produce a rule-based expert which processed a relatively complete mastery of…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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15.

A Lexical Conceptual Approach to Generation for Machine Translation
Dorr, Bonnie J.

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Enlaces:	Current approaches to generation for machine translation make use of direct-replacement templates, large grammars, and knowledge-based inferencing techniques. Not only are rules language-specific, but they are too simplistic to handle sentences that exhibit more complex phenomena. Furthermore, these systems are…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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16.

Topics in Model Theory
Levin, Michael

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Enlaces:	The concept of free as in "free group" is generalized to any first order theory. An interesting class of homomorphisms between models is discussed. Relations between model theory and abelian categories are discussed speculatively. This paper represents an incomplete study…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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17.

Planner Implementation Proposal to ARPA 1972-1973
Hewitt, Carl

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Enlaces:	The task objective is the generalization and implementation of the full power of the problem solving formalism PLANNER in the next two years. We will show how problem solving knowledge can be effectively incorporated into the formalism. Several domains will…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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18.

Summary of MYCROFT: A System for Understanding Simple Picture Programs
Goldstein, Ira P.

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Enlaces:	A collection of powerful ideas??cription, plans, linearity, insertions, global knowledge and imperative semantics?? explored which are fundamental to debugging skill. To make these concepts precise, a computer monitor called MYCROFT is described that can debug elementary programs for drawing pictures.…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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19.

Teaching the Computer to Add: An Example of Problem-Solving in an Anthropomorphic Computer Culture
Solomon, Cynthia J.

Formato:
Enlaces:	Computers open up new ways to think about knowledge and learning. Learning computer science should draw upon and feed these new approaches. In a previous paper called "Leading a Child to a Computer Culture" I discuss some ways to do…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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20.

Learning New Principles from Precedents and Exercises: The Details
Winston, Patrick H.

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Enlaces:	Much Learning is done by way of studying precedents and exercises. A teacher supplies a story, gives a problem, and expects a student both to solve a problem and to discover a principle. The student must find the correspondence between…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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21.

Causal Reconstruction
Borchardt, Gary C.

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Enlaces:	Causal reconstruction is the task of reading a written causal description of a physical behavior, forming an internal model of the described activity, and demonstrating comprehension through question answering. T his task is difficult because written d escriptions often do…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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22.

Projective Structure from Two Uncalibrated Images: Structure from Motion and RecRecognition
Shashua, Amnon

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Enlaces:	This paper addresses the problem of recovering relative structure, in the form of an invariant, referred to as projective structure, from two views of a 3D scene. The invariant structure is computed without any prior knowledge of camera geometry, or…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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23.

Local Versus Global Control Laws for Cooperative Agent Teams
Parker, Lynne E.

Formato:
Enlaces:	The design of the control laws governing the behavior of individual agents is crucial for the successful development of cooperative agent teams. These control laws may utilize a combination of local and/or global knowledge to achieve the resulting group behavior.…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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24.

Recognition and Structure from One 2D Model View: Observations on Prototypes, Object Classes and Symmetries
Poggio, Tomaso - Vetter, Thomas

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Enlaces:	In this note we discuss how recognition can be achieved from a single 2D model view exploiting prior knowledge of an object's structure (e.g. symmetry). We prove that for any bilaterally symmetric 3D object one non- accidental 2D model view…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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25.

Observations on Cognitive Judgments
McAllester, David

Formato:
Enlaces:	It is obvious to anyone familiar with the rules of the game of chess that a king on an empty board can reach every square. It is true, but not obvious, that a knight can reach every square. Why is…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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26.

Data and Model-Driven Selection Using Color Regions
Syeda-Mahmood, Tanveer Fathima

Formato:
Enlaces:	A key problem in model-based object recognition is selection, namely, the problem of determining which regions in the image are likely to come from a single object. In this paper we present an approach that extracts and uses color region…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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27.

Causal/Temporal Connectives: Syntax and Lexicon
Brent, Michael R.

Formato:
Enlaces:	This report elucidates the linguistic representation of temporal relations among events. This involves examining sentences that contain two clauses connected by words like once, by the time, when, and before. Specifically, the effect of the tenses of the connected clauses…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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28.

Expressing Mathematical Subroutines Constructively
Roylance, Gerald

Formato:
Enlaces:	The typical subroutines that compute $\\sin(x)$ and $\\exp(x)$ bear little resemblance to our mathematical knowledge of these functions: they are composed of concrete arithmetic expressions that include many mysterious numerical constants. Instead of programming these subroutines conventionally, we can express…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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29.

Analyzing Natural Images: A Computational Theory of Texture Vision
Marr, D.

Formato:
Enlaces:	A theory of early and intermediate visual information processing is given, which extends to about the level of figure-ground separation. Its core is a computational theory of texture vision. Evidence obtained from perceptual and from computational experiments is adduced in…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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30.

Wumpus Advisor 1: A First Implementation Program that Tutors Logical and Probabilistic Reasoning Skills
Stansfield, James L. - Carr, Brian P. - Goldstein, Ira P.

Formato:
Enlaces:	The Wumpus Advisor program offers advice to a player involved in choosing the best move in a game for which competence in dealing with incomplete and uncertain knowledge is required. The design and implementation of the advisor explores a new…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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31.

PAZATN: A Linguistic Approach to Automatic Analysis of Elementary Programming Protocols
Miller, Mark L. - Goldstein, Ira P.

Formato:
Enlaces:	PATN is a design for a machine problem solver which uses an augmented transition network (ATN) to represent planning knowledge. In order to explore PATN's potential as a theory of human problem solving, a linguistic approach to protocol analysis is…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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32.

Assessment and Documentation of a Children's Computer Laboratory
Papert, Seymour - Watt, Daniel H.

Formato:
Enlaces:	This research will thoroughly document the experiences of a small number of 5th grade children in an elementary school computer laboratory, using LOGO, an advanced computer language designed for children. Four groups of four children will be taught a 10-week…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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33.

A Proposal for a Computational Model of Anatomical and Physiological Reasoning
Smith, Brian Cantwell

Formato:
Enlaces:	The studies of anatomy and physiology are fundamental ingredients of medical education. This paper identifies six ways in which such functional knowledge serves as the underpinnings for general medical reasoning, and outlines the design of a computational model of common…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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34.

ARIADNE: Pattern-Directed Inference and Hierarchical Abstraction in Protein Structure Recognition
Lathrop, Richard H. - Webster, Teresa A. - Smith, Temple F.

Formato:
Enlaces:	There are many situations in which a very detailed low-level description encodes, through a hierarchical organization, a recognizable higher-order pattern. The macro-molecular structural conformations of proteins exhibit higher order regularities whose recognition is complicated by many factors. ARIADNE searches for…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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35.

Simplifying Decision Trees
Quinlan, J.R.

Formato:
Enlaces:	Many systems have been developed for constructing decision trees from collections of examples. Although the decision trees generated by these methods are accurate and efficient, they often suffer the disadvantage of excessive complexity that can render them incomprehensible to experts.…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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36.

Extracting Qualitative Dynamics from Numerical Experiments
Yip, Kenneth Man-Kam

Formato:
Enlaces:	The Phase Space is a powerful tool for representing and reasoning about the qualitative behavior of nonlinear dynamical systems. Significant physical phenomena of the dynamical system---periodicity, recurrence, stability and the like---are reflected by outstanding geometric features of the trajectories in…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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37.

A Framework for Representing Knowledge
Minsky, Marvin

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Enlaces:	This is a partial theory of thinking, combining a number of classical and modern concepts from psychology, linguistics, and AI. Whenever one encounters a new situation (or makes a substantial change in one's viewpoint) he selects from memory a structure…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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38.

Organizing a Global Coordinate System from Local Information on an Amorphous Computer
Nagpal, Radhika

Formato:
Enlaces:	This paper demonstrates that it is possible to generate a reasonably accurate coordinate system on randomly distributed processors, using only local information and local communication. By coordinate systems we imply that each element assigns itself a logical coordinate that maps…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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39.

Corpus-Based Techniques for Word Sense Disambiguation
Levow, Gina-Anne

Formato:
Enlaces:	The need for robust and easily extensible systems for word sense disambiguation coupled with successes in training systems for a variety of tasks using large on-line corpora has led to extensive research into corpus-based statistical approaches to this problem. Promising…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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40.

Qualitative Depth and Shape from Stereo, in Agreement with Psychophysical Evidendence
Weinshall, Daphna

Formato:
Enlaces:	Obtaining exact depth from binocular disparities is hard if camera calibration is needed. We will show that qualitative depth information can be obtained from stereo disparities with almost no computations and with no prior knowledge (or computation) of camera parameters.…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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41.

ITS 1.5 Reference Manual
Eastlake, D. - Greenblatt, R. - Holloway, J. - Knight, T. - Nelson, S.

Formato:
Enlaces:	This reference manual consists of two parts. The first (sections 1 through 6) is intended for those who are either interested in the ITS 1.5 time sharing monitor for its own sake or who wish to write machine language programs…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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42.

A Primitive Control P Feature
Eastlake, Donald E., III

Formato:
Enlaces:	A program, some TECO macros, and some small modifications to existing systems software have been written, called PRO, whose purpose is to reduce the large number of control languages and system programs it has been necessary to know about and…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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43.

ITS 1.5 Reference Manual
Eastlake, D. - Greenblatt, R. - Holloway, J. - Knight, T. - Nelson, S.

Formato:
Enlaces:	This reference manual consists of two parts. The first (sections 1 through 6) is intended for those who are either interested in the ITS 1.5 time sharing monitor for its own sake or who wish to write machine language programs…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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44.

Linear Separation and Learning
Minsky, Marvin - Papert, Seymour

Formato:
Enlaces:	This is a reprint of page proofs of Chapter 12 of Perceptrons, M. Minsky and S. Papert, MIT Press 1968, (we hope). It replaces A.I. Memo No. 156 dated March 1968. The perceptron and convergence theorems of Chapter 11 are…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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45.

Decomposition of a Visual Scene into Three-Dimensional Bodies
Guzman, Adolfo

Formato:
Enlaces:	The program described here takes as its input a collection of lines, vertices and surfaces describing a scene, and analyzes the scene into a composition of three-dimensional objects. The program does not need to know the form (model, or pattern)…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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46.

PROGRAMMER: A Language for Writing Grammars
Winograd, Terry

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Enlaces:	This memo describes PROGRAMMER, a parser for natural language. It consists of a language for writing grammars in the form of programs, and an interpreter which can use these grammars to parse sentence. PROGRAMMER is one part of an integrated…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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47.

Proposal to ARPA for Research on Intelligent Automata and Micro-Automation
Winston, P. - Horn, B.K.P. - Sussman, G.J.

Formato:
Enlaces:	The results of a decade of work in Artificial Intelligence have brought us to the threshold of a new phase of knowledge-based programming -- in which we can design computer systems that (1) react reasonably to significantly complicated situations and…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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48.

Ideas About Management of LISP Data Bases
Sandewall, Erik

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Enlaces:	The paper advocates the need for systems which support maintenance of LISP-type data bases, and describes an experimental system of this kind, call DABA. In this system, a description of the data base's structure is kept in the data base…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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49.

Viewing Control Structures as Patterns of Passing Messages
Hewitt, Carl

Formato:
Enlaces:	The purpose of this paper is to discuss some organizational aspects of programs using the actor model of computation. In this paper we present an approach to modelling intelligence in terms of a society of communicating knowledge-based problem-solving experts. In…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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50.

A Preview of Act 1
Lieberman, Henry

Formato:
Enlaces:	The next generation of artificial intelligence programs will require the ability to organize knowledge as groups of active objects. Each object should have only its own local expertise, the ability to operate in parallel with other objects, and the ability…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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51.

Thinking About Lots of Things at Once without Getting Confused: Parallelism in Act 1
Lieberman, Henry

Formato:
Enlaces:	As advances in computer architecture and changing economics make feasible machines with large-scale parallelism, Artificial Intelligence will require new ways of thinking about computation that can exploit parallelism effectively. We present the actor model of computation as being appropriate for…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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52.

Open Systems
Hewitt, Carl - Jong, Peter de

Formato:
Enlaces:	This paper describes some problems and opportunities associated with conceptual modeling for the kind of "open systems" we foresee must and will be increasingly recognized as a central line of computer system development. Computer applications will be based on communication…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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53.

Fingerprints Theorems for Zero-Crossings
Yuille, A.L. - Poggio, T.

Formato:
Enlaces:	We prove that the scale map of the zero-crossings of almost all signals filtered by the second derivative of a gaussian of variable size determines the signal uniquely, up to a constant scaling and a harmonic function. Our proof provides…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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54.

Shape and Source from Shading
Brooks, Michael J. - Horn, Berthold K.P.

Formato:
Enlaces:	Well-known methods for solving the shape-from-shading problem require knowledge of the reflectance map. Here we show how the shape-from-shading problem can be solved when the reflectance map is not available, but is known to have a given form with some…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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55.

The Computational Complexity of Two-Level Morphology
Barton, G. Edward, Jr.

Formato:
Enlaces:	Morphological analysis requires knowledge of the stems, affixes, combnatory patterns, and spelling-change processes of a language. The computational difficulty of the task can be clarified by investigating the computational characteristics of specific models of morphologial processing. The use of finite-state…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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56.

Circumscribing Circumscription: A Guide to Relevance and Incompleteness
Williams, Brian C.

Formato:
Enlaces:	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 assumptions about what is known. Circumscription, proposed by…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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57.

Classifying Objects from Visual Information
Bobick, Aaron - Richards, Whitman

Formato:
Enlaces:	Consider a world of 'objects.' Our goal is to place these objects into categories that are useful to the observer using sensory data. One criterion for utility is that the categories allow the observer to infer the object's potential behaviors,…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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58.

Issues in Model Based Troubleshooting
Hamscher, Walter - Davis, Randall

Formato:
Enlaces:	To determine why something has stopped working, it's helpful to know how it was supposed to work in the first place. This simple fact underlies recent work on a number of systems that do diagnosis from knowledge about the internal…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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59.

Formalizing Reusable Software Components in the Programmer's Apprentice
Rich, Charles - Waters, Richard C.

Formato:
Enlaces:	There has been a long-standing desire in computer science for a way of collecting and using libraries of standard software components. The limited success in actually doing this stems not from any resistance to the idea, nor from any lack…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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60.

Data and Model-Driven Selection Using Parallel-Line Groups
Tanveer, S. - Mahmood, F.

Formato:
Enlaces:	A key problem in model-based object recognition is selection, namely, the problem of isolating regions in an image that are likely to come from a single object. This isolation can be either based solely on image data (data-driven) or can…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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61.

Diagnostic Reasoning Based on Structure and Behavior
Davis - Randall

Formato:
Enlaces:	We describe a system that reasons from first principles, i.e., using knowledge of structure and behavior. The system has been implemented and tested on several examples in the domain of troubleshooting digital electronic circuits. We give an example of the…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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62.

Computer System for Visual Recognition Using Active Knowledge
Freuder, Eugene C.

Formato:
Enlaces:	A system for visual recognition is described, with implications for the general problem of representation of knowledge to assist control. The immediate objective is a computer system that will recognize objects in a visual scene, specifically hammers. The computer receives…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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63.

Context Interchange Mediation for Semantic Interoperability and Dynamic Integration of Autonomous Information Sources in the Fixed Income Securities Industry
Siegel, Michael - Moulton, Allen - Madnick, Stuart

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	We examine semantic interoperability problems in the fixed income securities industry and propose a knowledge representation architecture for context interchange mediation to support dynamic integration of autonomous database, web, and procedural sources of information. For sources and…
Fecha:	2003-02-10
Recurso:	MIT

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64.

Towards a systematic repository of knowledge about managing collaborative design conflicts

Formato:
Enlaces:	Mark Klein., "October 1999.", Includes bibliographical references (p. 15-16).
Fecha:	2003-04-29
Recurso:	MIT

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65.

Taxonomic Syntax for First-Order Inference
McAllester, David - Givan, Robert

Formato:
Enlaces:	Most knowledge representation languages are based on classes and taxonomic relationships between classes. Taxonomic hierarchies without defaults or exceptions are semantically equivalent to a collection of formulas in first order predicate calculus. Although designers of knowledge representation languages often express…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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66.

CREF: An Editing Facility for Managing Structured Text
Pitman, Kent M.

Formato:
Enlaces:	This paper reports work in progress on an experimental text editor called CREF, the Cross Referenced Editing Facility. CREF deals with chunks of text, called segments, which may have associated features such as keywords or various kinds of links to…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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67.

Entrepreneurial clusters in knowledge-driven economies : an essay on their evolutionary dynamics
Ueda, Mitsuyuki, 1971-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Mitsuyuki Ueda., Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 2003., Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-131)., This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives…
Fecha:	2005-05-19
Recurso:	MIT

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68.

The Bifurcation Interpreter: A Step Towards the Automatic Analysis of Dynamical Systems
Abelson, Harold

Formato:
Enlaces:	The Bifurcation Interpreter is a computer program that autonomously explores the steady-state orbits of one-parameter families of periodically- driven oscillators. To report its findings, the Interpreter generates schematic diagrams and English text descriptions similar to those appearing in the science…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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69.

Patent Litigation As a Leading Market Indicator
Tang, Victor - Huang, Biao

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	The purpose of this paper is to introduce patent litigation as a leading indicator of market growth. We model the intensity of patent litigation and the market growth for the personal computer and cellular phone market in the US. By…
Fecha:	2003-12-10
Recurso:	MIT

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70.

Detecting Digital Forgeries Using Bispectral Analysis
Farid, Hany

Formato:
Enlaces:	With the rapid increase in low-cost and sophisticated digital technology the need for techniques to authenticate digital material will become more urgent. In this paper we address the problem of authenticating digital signals assuming no explicit prior knowledge of the…
Fecha:	2004-10-08
Recurso:	MIT

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71.

Single Machine Scheduling with Release Dates
Goemans, Michel X. - Queyranne, Maurice - Schulz, Andreas S. - Skutella, Martin - Wang, Yaoguang

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	We consider the scheduling problem of minimizing the average weighted completion time of n jobs with release dates on a single machine. We first study two linear programming relaxations of the problem, one based on a time-indexed formulation, the other…
Fecha:	2004-05-28
Recurso:	MIT

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72.

Decision support tools for urban air quality management
San Martini, Federico M. (Federico Matteo), 1973-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	This thesis developed and applied tools to bridge the gap between available data and action for urban air quality management, focusing on strategies to reduce particle concentrations. One of the principal thesis contributions is a Bayesian method to exploit the…
Fecha:	2005-10-14
Recurso:	MIT

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73.

Using Analogy to Acquire Commonsense Knowledge from Human Contributors
Chklovski, Timothy

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Enlaces:	The goal of the work reported here is to capture the commonsense knowledge of non-expert human contributors. Achieving this goal will enable more intelligent human-computer interfaces and pave the way for computers to reason about our world. In the domain…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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74.

The impact of networked display devices on awareness and adoption of an online knowledge sharing system
Rosenblatt, Michael, 1977-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Invention is largely information driven. Everyone in a community of inventors is an aggregator of information relevant to invention. Sharing some of this information across a community of inventors will result in greater invention effectiveness at the individual and community…
Fecha:	2005-06-02
Recurso:	MIT

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75.

Improving Data Quality Through Effective Use of Data Semantics
Madnick, Stuart E.

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	Data quality issues have taken on increasing importance in recent years. In our research, we have discovered that many “data quality” problems are actually “data misinterpretation” problems – that is, problems with data semantics. In this paper, we first illustrate…
Fecha:	2003-12-13
Recurso:	MIT

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76.

A Hybrid Intelligent System for Stamping Process Planning in Progressive Die Design
Zhang, W.Y. - Tor, Shu Beng - Britton, G.A.

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	This paper presents an intelligent, hybrid system for stamping process planning in progressive die design. The system combines the flexibility of blackboard architecture with case-based reasoning. The hybrid system has the advantage that it can use past knowledge and experience…
Fecha:	2003-12-14
Recurso:	MIT

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77.

Leveraging Learning and Language Via Communication Bootstrapping
Beal, Jacob

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Enlaces:	In a Communication Bootstrapping system, peer components with different perceptual worlds invent symbols and syntax based on correlations between their percepts. I propose that Communication Bootstrapping can also be used to acquire functional definitions of words and causal reasoning knowledge.…
Fecha:	2004-10-08
Recurso:	MIT

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78.

commanimation: Creating and managing animations via speech
Kim, Hana - Kho, Nancy - Yan, Emily - Rudolph, Larry

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	A speech controlled animation system is both a useful application program as well as a laboratory in which to investigate context aware applications as well as controlling errors. The user need not have prior knowledge or experience in animation and…
Fecha:	2003-12-13
Recurso:	MIT

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79.

Adaptive Cache-Oblivious All-to-All Operation
Chung, Shin Yee - Hsu, Wen Jing

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	Modern processors rely on cache memories to reduce the latency of data accesses. Extensive cache misses would thus compromise the usefulness of the scheme. Cache-aware algorithms make use of the knowledge about the cache, such as the cache line size,…
Fecha:	2003-12-13
Recurso:	MIT

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80.

Automated Information Extraction to Support Biomedical Decision Model Construction: A Preliminary Design
Li, Xiaoli - Leong, Tze Yun

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	We propose an information extraction framework to support automated construction of decision models in biomedicine. Our proposed technique classifies text-based documents from a large biomedical literature repository, e.g., MEDLINE, into predefined categories, and identifies important keywords for each category based…
Fecha:	2003-12-13
Recurso:	MIT

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81.

On Web Taxonomy Integration
Zhang, Dell - Lee, Wee Sun

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	We address the problem of integrating objects from a source taxonomy into a master taxonomy. This problem is not only pervasive on the nowadays web, but also important to the emerging semantic web. A straightforward approach to automating this process…
Fecha:	2003-12-13
Recurso:	MIT

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82.

Building a Document Corpus for Manufacturing Knowledge Retrieval
Liu, Y. - Loh, Han Tong - Tor, Shu Beng

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	When faced with challenging technical problems, R&D personnel would often turn to technical papers to seek inspiration for a solution. The building of a corpus of such papers and the easy retrieval of relevant papers by the user in his…
Fecha:	2003-12-14
Recurso:	MIT

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83.

A Study of Moment Recursion Models for Tactical Planning of a Job Shop: Literature Survey and Research Opportunities
Teo, Chee Chong

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	The Moment Recursion (MR) models are a class of models for tactical planning of job shops or other processing networks. The MR model can be used to determine or approximate the first two moments of production quantities and queue lengths…
Fecha:	2003-12-15
Recurso:	MIT

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84.

A Study on the Boundary Conditions of 90° Paper Pop-up Structures
Tor, Shu Beng - Mak, K.W. - Lee, Y.T.

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	The design of a pop-up book or card has hitherto been labour intensive with tasks of trials and errors. The constructions of collapsible pop-up structures can be demanding and inefficient without adequate knowledge of their geometric properties. This paper examines…
Fecha:	2003-12-15
Recurso:	MIT

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85.

Surviving the Information Explosion: How People Find Their Electronic Information
Alvarado, Christine - Teevan, Jaime - Ackerman, Mark S. - Karger, David

Formato:
Enlaces:	We report on a study of how people look for information within email, files, and the Web. When locating a document or searching for a specific answer, people relied on their contextual knowledge of their information target to help them…
Fecha:	2004-10-08
Recurso:	MIT

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86.

The Essential Dynamics Algorithm: Essential Results
Martin, Martin C.

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Enlaces:	This paper presents a novel algorithm for learning in a class of stochastic Markov decision processes (MDPs) with continuous state and action spaces that trades speed for accuracy. A transform of the stochastic MDP into a deterministic one is presented…
Fecha:	2004-10-08
Recurso:	MIT

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87.

Segmentation and Alignment of Speech and Sketching in a Design Environment
Adler, Aaron D.

Formato:
Enlaces:	Sketches are commonly used in the early stages of design. Our previous system allows users to sketch mechanical systems that the computer interprets. However, some parts of the mechanical system might be too hard or too complicated to express in…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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88.

Efficient on the fly maintenance of series-parallel relationships
Fineman, Jeremy T.

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	A series-parallel directed acyclic graph, or SP-dag, contains nodes that are either in series or logically in parallel. We present a data structure and algorithm to efficiently determine, in a single serial walk of the dag, whether two nodes are…
Fecha:	2003-12-13
Recurso:	MIT

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89.

A Lab Scale Polymer Micro-Embossing Machine for Process Control Research
Ganesan, Bala - Hardt, David E.

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	Micro embossing is the process of fabricating micron-sized features by plastic deformation of a work piece by means of a shaped tool or die. In our work we are concerned with hot embossing of PMMA to produce features in the…
Fecha:	2003-12-14
Recurso:	MIT

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90.

A Framework for Corporate Householding
Madnick, Stuart - Wang, Richard - Zhang, Wei

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Previous research on corporate household and corporate householding has presented examples, literature review, and working definitions. In this paper, we first improve our understanding of the area by developing a typology of corporate householding tasks and knowledge…
Fecha:	2003-03-21
Recurso:	MIT

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91.

Border-crossing knowledge networking among multinational firms : the case of R&D facilities
Shirvani-Mahdavi, Ali (Ali Agha), 1965-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	(cont.) which is expected, given their additional knowledge resources. The respondents' urgency in looking for the relevant knowledge is the primary explanation for this difference between the two networks. This difference in knowledge networking among the different groups did not…
Fecha:	2005-09-27
Recurso:	MIT

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92.

Spatiotemporal brain imaging and modeling
Lin, Fa-Hsuan, 1972-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	This thesis integrates hardware development, data analysis, and mathematical modeling to facilitate our understanding of brain cognition. Exploration of these brain mechanisms requires both structural and functional knowledge to (i) reconstruct the spatial distribution of the activity, (ii) to estimate…
Fecha:	2005-06-02
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93.

Vibration and crack detection in gas turbine engine compressor blades using Eddy current sensors
Lackner, Matthew, 1980-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	(cont.) in the ECS signal, no definitive method for sensing blade vibration using an ECS has yet been developed., High cycle fatigue (HCF) cracks generated by compressor blade vibrations are a common source of failure in gas turbine engines. Current…
Fecha:	2005-09-27
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94.

Dynamic power allocation and routing for satellite and wireless networks with time varying channels
Neely, Michael J. (Michael James), 1975-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Satellite and wireless networks operate over time varying channels that depend on attenuation conditions, power allocation decisions, and inter-channel interference. In order to reliably integrate these systems into a high speed data network and meet the increasing demand for high…
Fecha:	2005-05-17
Recurso:	MIT

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95.

Re-engineering knowledge networks for development
Raghavan, Amrith, 1976-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	This thesis examines the evolution of Internet based knowledge networks (e-knowledge networks) in the domain of sustainable development. The objective of this thesis is to use an engineering systems approach to understand knowledge networks, identify the barriers to their sustainability…
Fecha:	2005-06-02
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96.

Transferring, Translating and Transforming: An Integrative Framework
Carlile, Paul

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Organizations must establish processes for managing knowledge across boundaries because of the specialized and task-dependent forms of knowledge required to deliver products and services. To address this challenge an integrative framework is developed that identifies and integrates the value of…
Fecha:	2003-12-10
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97.

D-SCRIPT: A Computational Theory of Descriptions
Moore, Robert C.

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Enlaces:	This paper descries D-SCRIPT, a language for representing knowledge in artificial intelligence programs. D-SCRIPT contains a powerful formalism for descriptions, which permits the representation of statements that are problematical for other systems. Particular attention is paid to problems of opaque…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
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98.

The Structure of Mathematical Knowledge
Michener, Edwina Rissland

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Enlaces:	This report develops a conceptual framework in which to talk about mathematical knowledge. There are several broad categories of mathematical knowledge: results which contain the traditional logical aspects of mathematics; examples which contain illustrative material; and concepts which include formal…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
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99.

Explicit Control of Reasoning
Kleer, Johan de - Doyle, Jon - Steele, Guy L., Jr. - Sussman, Gerald Jay

Formato:
Enlaces:	The construction of expert problem-solving systems requires the development of techniques for using modular representations of knowledge without encountering combinatorial explosions in the solution effort. This report describes an approach to dealing with this problem based on making some knowledge…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
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100.

The Role of Knowledge in Visual Shape Representation
Saund, Eric

Formato:
Enlaces:	This report shows how knowledge about the visual world can be built into a shape representation in the form of a descriptive vocabulary making explicit the important geometrical relationships comprising objects' shapes. Two computational tools are offered: (1) Shapestokens are…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT