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

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

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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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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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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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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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11.

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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12.

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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13.

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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14.

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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15.

Capturing Intuitive Knowledge in Procedural Description
Bamberger, Jeanne

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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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16.

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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17.

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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19.

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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20.

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

Formato:
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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21.

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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22.

Planner Implementation Proposal to ARPA 1972-1973
Hewitt, Carl

Formato:
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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23.

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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24.

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

Formato:
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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25.

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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26.

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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27.

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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28.

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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29.

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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30.

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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31.

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

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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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32.

Expressing Mathematical Subroutines Constructively
Roylance, Gerald

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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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33.

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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34.

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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35.

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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36.

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

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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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37.

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

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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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38.

Simplifying Decision Trees
Quinlan, J.R.

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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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39.

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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40.

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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41.

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

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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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42.

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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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.

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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45.

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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46.

Linear Separation and Learning
Minsky, Marvin - Papert, Seymour

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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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47.

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

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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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48.

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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49.

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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50.

Viewing Control Structures as Patterns of Passing Messages
Hewitt, Carl

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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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51.

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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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.

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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55.

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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56.

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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57.

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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58.

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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59.

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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60.

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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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.

Reasoning from Incomplete Knowledge in a Procedural Deduction System
Moore, Robert Carter

Formato:
Enlaces:	One very useful idea in AI research has been the notion of an explicit model of a problem situation. Procedural deduction languages, such as PLANNER, have been valuable tools for building these models. But PLANNER and its relatives are very…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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64.

A Computational Model of Skill Acquisition
Sussman, Gerald J.

Formato:
Enlaces:	This thesis confronts the nature of the process of learning an intellectual skill, the ability to solve problems efficiently in a particular domain of discourse. The investigation is synthetic; a computational performance model, HACKER, is displayed. Hacker is a computer…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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65.

Preliminary Survey of Classical Statistical Techniques for Incorporation into Adaptive Evaluation Methodology
Minkoff, Alan S.

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Evaluation of public programming currently tends toward plans that are set in advance of any sampling and adhered to throughout. Because increments in the knowledge profile during the course of an evaluation might beckon adjustment of the working procedure, fixed…
Fecha:	2004-05-28
Recurso:	MIT

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66.

Predicting and managing system interactions at early phase of the product development process
Dong, Qi, 1973-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	The activity of designing and developing large, complex, discrete, physical, and engineered products faces the challenges in the physical product system, the organization of people, and the larger systems in which the product resides-the natural and societal systems. This thesis…
Fecha:	2005-05-19
Recurso:	MIT

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67.

Learning Commonsense Categorical Knowledge in a Thread Memory System
Stamatoiu, Oana L.

Formato:
Enlaces:	If we are to understand how we can build machines capable of broad purpose learning and reasoning, we must first aim to build systems that can represent, acquire, and reason about the kinds of commonsense knowledge that we humans have…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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68.

Toward a Theory of Representation Design
Baalen, Jeffrey Van

Formato:
Enlaces:	This research is concerned with designing representations for analytical reasoning problems (of the sort found on the GRE and LSAT). These problems test the ability to draw logical conclusions. A computer program was developed that takes as input a straightforward…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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69.

New Progress in Artificial Intelligence
Winston, Patrick H.

Formato:
Enlaces:	This report concentrates on progress during the last two years at the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Topics covered include the representation of knowledge, understanding English, learning and debugging, understanding vision and productivity technology. It is stressed that these various areas…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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70.

An Approach to the Questionnaire State in the Knowledge-Based Operations Management System
Karmarkar, Uday S.

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper discusses some preliminary thoughts about the development of a questionnaire for the Knowledge-based Operations Management System (KOMS) project. The questionnaire is designed to elicit information from managers, regarding the type of operating problems faced by them in terms…
Fecha:	2004-05-28
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71.

Induced technical change in computable general equilibrium models for climate-change policy analysis
Sue Wing, Ian, 1970-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Policies to avert the threat of dangerous climate change focus on stabilizing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations by drastically reducing anthropogenic emissions of carbon. Such reductions require limiting the use of fossil fuels-which supply the bulk of energy to economic activity,…
Fecha:	2005-05-19
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72.

Analysis and utilization of operating experience for organizational learning
Weil, Richard Scott, 1976-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	The objective of this thesis is to clarify the ways that organizational factors influence nuclear power plant performance in order to improve performance. Therefore, this thesis studied the nuclear power plant organizational environment by identifying and detailing its important work…
Fecha:	2005-08-23
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73.

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
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74.

Knowledge transfer : a critical strategic asset in multinational firms : a corporate view, Conditions for developing a local exchange market for natural gas in Venezuela
Moncayo, Gloria G. (Moncayo Cisneros, Gloria Gabriela), 1966-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Gloria G. Moncayo., Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1999., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-88).
Fecha:	2005-08-19
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75.

The Impact of Processing Time Knowledge on Dynamic Job-Shop Scheduling
Wein, Lawrence M. - Ou, Jihong

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	The goal of this paper is to determine if the results for dynamic job-shop scheduling problems are affected by the assumptions made with regard to the processing time distributions and the scheduler's knowledge of the processing times. Three dynamic jobshop…
Fecha:	2004-05-28
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76.

Global Outsourcing of Professional Services
Seshasai, Satwik - Gupta, Amar

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	As a growing number of firms , especially those in the United States, outsource more of their professional services across geographic and temporal boundaries. Using a multi-faceted framework for this study, this paper shows that very careful analysis is needed…
Fecha:	2004-04-02
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77.

Naval Engineering A National Naval Obligation
Chryssostomidis, Chryssostomos - Bernitsas, Michael - Burke, David

Formato:
Enlaces:	As part of its national obligations, ONR must ensure US world leadership in those unique technology areas that insure naval superiority. ONR accomplishes this mission through research, recruitment and education, maintaining an adequate base of talent, and sustaining critical infrastructure…
Fecha:	2002-10-28
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78.

Sensing and modeling human networks
Choudhury, Tanzeem Khalid, 1975-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Knowledge of how groups of people interact is important in many disciplines, e.g. organizational behavior, social network analysis, knowledge management and ubiquitous computing. Existing studies of social network interactions have either been restricted to online communities, where unambiguous measurements about…
Fecha:	2005-05-17
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79.

Repairing Learned Knowledge Using Experience
Winston, Patrick H. - Rao, Satayjit

Formato:
Enlaces:	Explanation-based learning occurs when something useful is retained from an explanation, usually an account of how some particular problem can be solved given a sound theory. Many real-world explanations are not based on sound theory, however, and wrong things may…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
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80.

Automated Reasoning About Classical Mechanics
Wong, Leon

Formato:
Enlaces:	In recent years, researchers in artificial intelligence have become interested in replicating human physical reasoning talents in computers. One of the most important skills in this area is predicting how physical systems will behave. This thesis discusses an implemented program…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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81.

Droplet Bouncing Behavior in the Direct Solder Bumping Process
Hsiao, Wayne - Chun, Jung-Hoon

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	This paper presents the results of an ongoing effort to develop a direct solder bumping process for electronics packaging. The proposed process entails delivering molten droplets onto specific locations on electronic devices to form solder bumps. This study is focused…
Fecha:	2003-11-29
Recurso:	MIT

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82.

Complementary computational chemistry and surface science experiments of reaction pathways in aluminum chemical vapor deposition, Complementary quantum chemistry calculations and surface science experiments of reaction pathways in aluminum chemical vapor deposition
Willis, Brian G

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Continued advances in the semiconductor industry will require the introduction of new materials and processes concurrent with shrinking device dimensions. These simultaneous demands drastically reduce margins for error and necessitate an increasingly quantitative understanding of semiconductor processes. Leaders of the…
Fecha:	2005-08-23
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83.

Efficient Computation of Probabilities of Events Described by Order Statistics and Applications to Queue Inference
Jones, Lee K. - Larson, Richard C., 1943-

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	This paper derives recursive algorithms for efficiently computing event probabilities related to order statistics and applies the results in a queue inferencing setting. Consider a set of N i.i.d. random variables in [0, 1]. When the experimental values of the…
Fecha:	2004-05-28
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84.

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
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85.

Modeling Decision of Choice Among Finite Alternative: Applications to Marketing and to Transportation Demand Theory
Hauser, John R.

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	A methodology to improve the effectiveness of the design of innovation is proposed based on knowledge in the fields of psychometrics, utility theory and stochastic choice modeling. It is comprised of a consumer response and a managerial design process. The…
Fecha:	2004-05-28
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86.

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

Formato:
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
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87.

Learning by Failing to Explain
Hall, Robert Joseph

Formato:
Enlaces:	Explanation-based Generalization requires that the learner obtain an explanation of why a precedent exemplifies a concept. It is, therefore, useless if the system fails to find this explanation. However, it is not necessary to give up and resort to purely…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
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88.

KBEmacs: A Step Toward the Programmer's Apprentice
Waters, Richard C.

Formato:
Enlaces:	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 writing a program ??king over some parts…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
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89.

Contact Sensing: A Sequential Decision Approach to Sensing Manipulation Contact
Eberman, Brian Scott

Formato:
Enlaces:	This paper describes a new statistical, model-based approach to building a contact state observer. The observer uses measurements of the contact force and position, and prior information about the task encoded in a graph, to determine the current location of…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
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90.

Predicting the triple beta-spiral fold from primary sequence data
Scanlon, Eben Louis, 1974-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	The Triple β-Spiral is a novel protein structure that plays a role in viral attachment and pathogenesis. At present, there are two Triple β-Spiral structures with solved crystallographic coordinates - one from Adenovirus and the other from Reovirus. There is…
Fecha:	2005-05-17
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91.

Natural language processing for unmanned aerial vehicle guidance interfaces, Natural language processing for UAV guidance interfaces
Craparo, Emily M. (Emily Marie), 1980-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	In this thesis, the opportunities and challenges involved in applying natural language processing techniques to the control of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are addressed. The problem of controlling an unmanned aircraft via natural language inputs is formulated as a feedback…
Fecha:	2005-05-17
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92.

Evolution of the university business model and infrastructure planning due to technological innovations
Go, Veronica, 1976-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	The quality of higher education has been a growing concern in the United States and United Kingdom. There have been no notable improvements in the education system until the last few years. Considerable transformation in the higher education arena has…
Fecha:	2005-05-17
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93.

Wafer bonding : mechanics-based models and experiments
Turner, Kevin Thomas, 1977-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Direct wafer bonding has emerged as an important technology in the manufacture of silicon-on-insulator substrates (SOI), microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D IC's). While the process is currently employed in applications such as these, a lack of knowledge…
Fecha:	2005-05-17
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94.

A robust optimization approach to supply chains and revenue management
Thiele, Aurélie, 1977-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	The contribution of this thesis is to provide a tractable framework for supply chains and revenue management problems subject to uncertainty that gives insight into the structure of the optimal policy and requires little knowledge of the underlying probability distributions.…
Fecha:	2005-05-17
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95.

Understanding expressive action
Wren, Christopher R. (Christopher Richard)

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	We strain our eyes, cramp our necks, and destroy our hands trying to interact with computer on their terms. At the extreme, we strap on devices and weigh ourselves down with cables trying to re-create a sense of place inside…
Fecha:	2005-05-19
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96.

Multiplexing, scheduling, and multicasting strategies for antenna arrays in wireless networks
Lopez, Michael J. (Michael John), 1972-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	A transmitter antenna array has the ability to direct data simultaneously to multiple receivers within a wireless network, creating potential for a more integrated view of algorithmic system components. In this thesis, such a perspective informs the design of two…
Fecha:	2005-05-19
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97.

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
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98.

Foundations of Actor Semantics
Clinger, William Douglas

Formato:
Enlaces:	The actor message-passing model of concurrent computation has inspired new ideas in the areas of knowledge-based systems, programming languages and their semantics, and computer systems architecture. The model itself grew out of computer languages such as Planner, Smalltalk, and Simula,…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
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99.

Hierarchical Object Recognition Using Libraries of Parameterized Model Sub-Parts
Ettinger, Gil J.

Formato:
Enlaces:	This thesis describes the development of a model-based vision system that exploits hierarchies of both object structure and object scale. The focus of the research is to use these hierarchies to achieve robust recognition based on effective organization and indexing…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
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100.

Three essays on the development and diffusion of pharmaceutical innovations, 3 essays on the development and diffusion of pharmaceutical innovations
Azoulay, Pierre

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	The thesis comprises three essays on various aspects of the development and diffusion of pharmaceutical innovations, woven together by the idea that the production of clinical knowl- edge influences organizational design, pricing, and advertising decisions in the pharmaceutical industry -…
Fecha:	2005-05-19
Recurso:	MIT