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

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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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The Role of Knowledge in Visual Shape Representation
Saund, Eric

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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

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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
Recurso:	MIT

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Towards a unified framework for sub-lexical and supra-lexical linguistic modeling
Mou, Xiaolong, 1973-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Conversational interfaces have received much attention as a promising natural communication channel between humans and computers. A typical conversational interface consists of three major systems: speech understanding, dialog management and spoken language generation. In such a conversational interface, speech recognition…
Fecha:	2005-10-14
Recurso:	MIT

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Qualitative Knowledge, Casual Reasoning and the Localization of Failures
Brown, Allen

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Enlaces:	This report investigates some techinques appropriate to representing the knowledge necessary for understanding a class of electronic machines -- radio receivers. A computational performance model - WATSON - is presented. WATSONs task is to isolate failures in radio receivers whose…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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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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Qualitative and Quantitative Knowledge in Classical Mechanics
Kleer, Johan De

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Enlaces:	This thesis investigates what knowledge is necessary to solve mechanics problems. A program NEWTON is described which understands and solves problems in mechanics mini-world of objects moving on surfaces. Facts and equations such as those given in mechanics text need…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation System for Mathematics
McAllester, David Allen

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Enlaces:	Ontic is an interactive system for developing and verifying mathematics. Ontic's verification mechanism is capable of automatically finding and applying information from a library containing hundreds of mathematical facts. Starting with only the axioms of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory, the Ontic…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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

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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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Roles of Knowledge in Motor Learning
Atkeson, Christopher Granger

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Enlaces:	The goal of this thesis is to apply the computational approach to motor learning, i.e., describe the constraints that enable performance improvement with experience and also the constraints that must be satisfied by a motor learning system, describe what is…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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Representing Knowledge of Large-Scale Space
Kuipers, Benjamin J.

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Enlaces:	This dissertation presents a model of the knowledge a person has about the spatial structure of a large-scale environment: the "cognitive map". The functions of the cognitive map are to assimilate new information about the environment, to represent the current…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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12.

Service delivery and learning in automated interfaces
Oliveira, Paulo Rocha e, 1974-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	This dissertation analyzes the strategic implications of customization policies available to companies that must simultaneously provide service and learn about their customers through automated interfaces. The first part of the dissertation lays out the theoretical framework within which the analysis…
Fecha:	2005-10-14
Recurso:	MIT

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13.

Test Generation Guided Design for Testability
Wu, Peng

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Enlaces:	This thesis presents a new approach to building a design for testability (DFT) system. The system takes a digital circuit description, finds out the problems in testing it, and suggests circuit modifications to correct those problems. The key contributions of…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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14.

Computational Structure of Human Language
Ristad, Eric Sven

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Enlaces:	The central thesis of this report is that human language is NP-complete. That is, the process of comprehending and producing utterances is bounded above by the class NP, and below by NP-hardness. This constructive complexity thesis has two empirical consequences.…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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15.

A Study of Qualitative and Geometric Knowledge in Reasoning about Motion
Forbus, Kenneth D.

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Enlaces:	Reasoning about motion is an important part of our commonsense knowledge, involving fluent spatial reasoning. This work studies the qualitative and geometric knowledge required to reason in a world that consists of balls moving through space constrained by collisions with…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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16.

Signature schemes and applications to cryptographic protocol design
Lysyanskaya, Anna

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Signature schemes are fundamental cryptographic primitives, useful as a stand-alone application, and as a building block in the design of secure protocols and other cryptographic objects. In this thesis, we study both the uses that signature schemes find in protocols,…
Fecha:	2005-10-14
Recurso:	MIT

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17.

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

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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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18.

Toward a Theory of Representation Design
Baalen, Jeffrey Van

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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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19.

Generating Circuit Tests by Exploiting Designed Behavior
Shirley, Mark Harper

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Enlaces:	This thesis describes two programs for generating tests for digital circuits that exploit several kinds of expert knowledge not used by previous approaches. First, many test generation problems can be solved efficiently using operation relations, a novel representation of circuit…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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20.

Toward A Model Of Children's Story Comprehension
Charniak, Eugene

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Enlaces:	How does a person answer questions about children's stories? For example, consider 'Janet wanted Jack's paints. She looked at the picture he was painting and said 'Those paints make your picture look funny.' The question to ask is 'Why did…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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21.

A Computational Model of Skill Acquisition
Sussman, Gerald J.

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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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22.

BUILD: A Tool for Maintaining Consistency in Modular Systems
Robbins, Richard Elliot

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Enlaces:	Build is a tool for keeping modular systems in a consistent state by managing the construction tasks (e.g. compilation, linking, etc.) associated with such systems. It employs a user supplied system model and a procedural description of a task to…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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23.

A System for Representing and Using Real-World Knowledge
Fahlman, Scott E.

Formato:
Enlaces:	This report describes a knowledge-base system in which the information is stored in a network of small parallel processing elements ??de and link units ??ich are controlled by an external serial computer. This network is similar to the semantic network…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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24.

NPL : a graphical programming language for motor control and its application to bipedal walking, Neuronal Programming Language : a graphical programming language for motor control and its application to bipedal walking
Wessler, Michael Alan, 1970-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Current methods for bipedal walking control include playback of recorded joint motion and the derivation of dynamic equations to map desired forces at the body to the required torques at the joints. Both methods require a significant amount of up-front…
Fecha:	2005-10-14
Recurso:	MIT

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25.

Towards trainable man-machine interfaces : combining top-down constraints with bottom-up learning in facial analysis, Towards man-machine interfaces : combining top-down constraints with bottom-up learning
Kumar, Vinay P. (Vinay Prasanna), 1972-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	This thesis proposes a miethodology for the design of man-machine interfaces by combining top-down and bottom-up processes in vision. From a computational perspective, we propose that the scientific-cognitive question of combining top-down and bottom-up knowledge is similar to the engineering…
Fecha:	2005-10-14
Recurso:	MIT

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26.

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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27.

TYPICAL: A Knowledge Representation System for Automated Discovery and Inference
Haase, Kenneth W., Jr.

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Enlaces:	TYPICAL is a package for describing and making automatic inferences about a broad class of SCHEME predicate functions. These functions, called types following popular usage, delineate classes of primitive SCHEME objects, composite data structures, and abstract descriptions. TYPICAL types are…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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28.

Creation of Computer Animation from Story Descriptions
Kahn, Kenneth Michael

Formato:
Enlaces:	This report describes a computer system that creates simple computer animation in response to high-level, vague, and incomplete descriptions of films. It makes its films by collecting and evaluating suggestions from several different bodies of knowledge. The order in which…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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29.

Hypothesis Formation and Evaluation in Medical Diagnosis
Rubin, Ann D.

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Enlaces:	This thesis describes some aspects of a computer system for doing medical diagnosis in the specialized field of kidney disease. Because such a system faces the spectre of combinatorial explosion, this discussion concentrates on heuristics which control the number of…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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30.

The Use of Equality in Deduction and Knowledge Representation
McAllester, David Allen

Formato:
Enlaces:	This report describes a system which maintains canonical expressions for designators under a set of equalities. Substitution is used to maintain all knowledge in terms of these canonical expressions. A partial order on designators, termed the better-name relation, is used…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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31.

Mechanical and optical behavior of a novel optical fiber crack sensor and an interferometric strain sensor
Olson, Noah Gale, 1969-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	The proper interpretation of measurements from an optical fiber sensor requires a full understanding of its mechanical response to external action and the corresponding change in optical output. To quantify the mechanical behavior it is necessary to know the mechanical…
Fecha:	2005-10-14
Recurso:	MIT

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32.

The synthesis, characterization and catalytic applications of mesocellular silica foams
Lettow, John Stangland, 1973-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Despite recent progress in materials synthesis, there are few materials with narrow pore size distributions and well-defined pore structures in the size range of 100 - 500 A. Materials with pores of 100 - 500 A possess a potential combination…
Fecha:	2005-10-14
Recurso:	MIT

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33.

A Circuit Grammar For Operational Amplifier Design
Ressler, Andrew Lewis

Formato:
Enlaces:	Electrical circuit designers seldom create really new topologies or use old ones in a novel way. Most designs are known combinations of common configurations tailored for the particular problem at hand. In this thesis I show that much of the…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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34.

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
Recurso:	MIT

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35.

Coherent Behavior from Incoherent Knowledge Sources in the Automatic Synthesis of Numerical Computer Programs
Brown, Richard

Formato:
Enlaces:	A fundamental problem in artificial intelligence is obtaining coherent behavior in rule-based problem solving systems. A good quantitative measure of coherence is time behavior; a system that never, in retrospect, applied a rule needlessly is certainly coherent; a system suffering…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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36.

Flexibility and Efficiency in a Computer Program for Designing Circuits
Mcdermott, Drew Vincent

Formato:
Enlaces:	This report is concerned with the problem of achieving flexibility (additivity, modularity) and efficiency (performance, expertise) simultaneously in one AI program. It deals with the domain of elementary electronic circuit design. The proposed solution is to provide a deduction-driven problem…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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37.

The Use of Grouping in Visual Object Recognition.
Jacobs, David W.

Formato:
Enlaces:	The report describes a recognition system called GROPER, which performs grouping by using distance and relative orientation constraints that estimate the likelihood of different edges in an image coming from the same object. The thesis presents both a theoretical analysis…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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38.

Automatic Analysis and Synthesis of Controllers for Dynamical Systems Based On P
Zhao, Feng

Formato:
Enlaces:	I present a novel design methodology for the synthesis of automatic controllers, together with a computational environment---the Control Engineer's Workbench---integrating a suite of programs that automatically analyze and design controllers for high-performance, global control of nonlinear systems. This work demonstrates…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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39.

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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40.

An Electronic Market-Maker
Chan, Nicholas Tung - Shelton, Christian

Formato:
Enlaces:	This paper presents an adaptive learning model for market-making under the reinforcement learning framework. Reinforcement learning is a learning technique in which agents aim to maximize the long-term accumulated rewards. No knowledge of the market environment, such as the order…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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41.

ARLO: Another Representation Language Offer
Haase, Kenneth W., Jr.

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Enlaces:	This paper describes ARLO, a representation language loosely modelled after Greiner and Lenant's RLL-1. ARLO is a structure-based representation language for describing structure-based representation languages, including itself. A given representation language is specified in ARLO by a collection of structures…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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42.

Procedures as a Representation for Data in a Computer Program for Understanding Natural Language
Winograd, Terry

Formato:
Enlaces:	This paper describes a system for the computer understanding of English. The system answers questions, executes commands, and accepts information in normal English dialog. It uses semantic information and context to understand discourse and to disambiguate sentences. It combines a…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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43.

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
Recurso:	MIT

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44.

Using Structural and Functional Information in Diagnostic Design
Hamscher, Walter

Formato:
Enlaces:	We wish to design a diagnostic for a device from knowledge of its structure and function. the diagnostic should achieve both coverage of the faults that can occur in the device, and should strive to achieve specificity in its diagnosis…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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45.

Reasoning Modeled as a Society of Communicating Experts
Steels, Luc

Formato:
Enlaces:	This report describes a domain independent reasoning system. The system uses a frame-based knowledge representation language and various reasoning techniques including constraint propagation, progressive refinement, natural deduction and explicit control of reasoning. A computational architecture based on active objects which…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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46.

Towards a Computational Theory of Definite Anaphora Comprehension in English Discourse
Sidner, Candace Lee

Formato:
Enlaces:	This report investigates the process of focussing as a description and explanation of the comprehension of certain anaphoric expressions in English discourse. The investigation centers on the interpretation of definite anaphora, that is, on the personal pronouns, and noun phrases…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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47.

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
Recurso:	MIT

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48.

KAM: Automatic Planning and Interpretation of Numerical Experiments Using Geometrical Methods
Yip, Kenneth Man-Kam

Formato:
Enlaces:	KAM is a computer program that can automatically plan, monitor, and interpret numerical experiments with Hamiltonian systems with two degrees of freedom. The program has recently helped solve an open problem in hydrodynamics. Unlike other approaches to qualitative reasoning about…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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49.

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
Recurso:	MIT

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50.

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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51.

Priors Stabilizers and Basis Functions: From Regularization to Radial, Tensor and Additive Splines
Girosi, Federico - Jones, Michael - Poggio, Tomaso

Formato:
Enlaces:	We had previously shown that regularization principles lead to approximation schemes, as Radial Basis Functions, which are equivalent to networks with one layer of hidden units, called Regularization Networks. In this paper we show that regularization networks encompass a much…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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52.

Exploring Object Perception with Random Image Structure Evolution
Sadr, Javid - Sinha, Pawan

Formato:
Enlaces:	We have developed a technique called RISE (Random Image Structure Evolution), by which one may systematically sample continuous paths in a high-dimensional image space. A basic RISE sequence depicts the evolution of an object's image from a random field, along…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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53.

Control of Vibration in Mechanical Systems Using Shaped Reference Inputs
Meckl, Peter Heinrich

Formato:
Enlaces:	Dynamic systems which undergo rapid motion can excite natural frequencies that lead to residual vibration at the end of motion. This work presents a method to shape force profiles that reduce excitation energy at the natural frequencies in order to…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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54.

Residual Vibration Reduction in Computer Controlled Machines
Singer, Neil C.

Formato:
Enlaces:	Control of machines that exhibit flexibility becomes important when designers attempt to push the state of the art with faster, lighter machines. Three steps are necessary for the control of a flexible planet. First, a good model of the plant…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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55.

The Image Irradiance Equation: Its Solution and Application
Bruss, Anna R.

Formato:
Enlaces:	How much information about the shape of an object can be inferred from its image? In particular, can the shape of an object be reconstructed by measuring the light it reflects from points on its surface? These questions were raised…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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56.

Shape from Shading: A Method for Obtaining the Shape of a Smooth Opaque Object from One View
Horn, Berthold K.P.

Formato:
Enlaces:	A method will be described for finding the shape of a smooth apaque object form a monocular image, given a knowledge of the surface photometry, the position of the lightsource and certain auxiliary information to resolve ambiguities. This method is…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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57.

Dependency Directed Reasoning for Complex Program Understanding
Shrobe, Howard Elliot

Formato:
Enlaces:	Artificial Intelligence research involves the creation of extremely complex programs which must possess the capability to introspect, learn, and improve their expertise. Any truly intelligent program must be able to create procedures and to modify them as it gathers information…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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58.

Understanding Simple Picture Programs
Goldstein, Ira P.

Formato:
Enlaces:	What are the characteristics of the process by which an intent is transformed into a plan and then a program? How is a program debugged? This paper analyzes these questions in the context of understanding simple turtle programs. To understand…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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59.

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
Recurso:	MIT

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60.

Model-Based Troubleshooting of Digital Systems
Hamscher, Walter Charles

Formato:
Enlaces:	This thesis describes a methodology, a representation, and an implemented program for troubleshooting digital circuit boards at roughly the level of expertise one might expect in a human novice. Existing methods for model-based troubleshooting have not scaled up to deal…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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61.

Intelligence by Design: Principles of Modularity and Coordination for Engineerin
Bryson, Joanna J.

Formato:
Enlaces:	All intelligence relies on search --- for example, the search for an intelligent agent's next action. Search is only likely to succeed in resource-bounded agents if they have already been biased towards finding the right answer. In artificial agents, the…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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62.

Probabilistic Solution of Inverse Problems
Marroquin, Jose Luis

Formato:
Enlaces:	In this thesis we study the general problem of reconstructing a function, defined on a finite lattice from a set of incomplete, noisy and/or ambiguous observations. The goal of this work is to demonstrate the generality and practical value of…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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63.

RABBIT: A Compiler for SCHEME
Steele, Guy Lewis, Jr.

Formato:
Enlaces:	We have developed a compiler for the lexically-scoped dialect of LISP known as SCHEME. The compiler knows relatively little about specific data manipulation primitives such as arithmetic operators, but concentrates on general issues of environment and control. Rather than having…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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64.

Inspection Methods in Programming
Rich, Charles

Formato:
Enlaces:	The work reported here lies in the area of overlap between artificial intelligence software engineering. As research in artificial intelligence, it is a step towards a model of problem solving in the domain of programming. In particular, this work focuses…
Fecha:	2004-10-20
Recurso:	MIT

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65.

Consensus Knowledge Acquisition
Trice, Andrew - Davis, Randall

Formato:
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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66.

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

Formato:
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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67.

Street science : the fusing of local and professional knowledge in environmental policy
Coburn, Jason

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	his dissertation analyzes how local knowledge improves environmental decisions. The premise is that controlling pollution and addressing public health disparities are not problems that professionals alone can solve. Concerned lay publics, especially low-income populations and people of color that experience…
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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68.

A Knowledge Based Approach to Facilitate Enginering Design
Seshasai, Satwik - Gupta, Amar

Formato:
Enlaces:	This paper presents a knowledge-based approach to facilitate the engineering design process relating to spacecrafts. Because the design evolves over a long time and typically involves individuals working at different locations and frequently for different organizations, the degree of collaboration…
Fecha:	2002-10-23
Recurso:	MIT

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MindShare : knowledge sharing via personalized views on a composite ontology, Knowledge sharing via personalized views on a composite ontology
Van Dyke, Neil William, 1971-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Neil William Van Dyke., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2000., "February 2000.", Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-91).
Fecha:	2005-08-22
Recurso:	MIT

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70.

Three-dimensional representations of video using knowledge based estimation
Holtzman, Henry Neil

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Henry Neil Holtzman., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1991., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-66).
Fecha:	2005-08-15
Recurso:	MIT

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71.

Automated Negotiation from Declarative Contract Descriptions
Grosof, Benjamin - Reeves, Daniel - Wellman, Michael

Formato:
Enlaces:	Our approach for automating the negotiation of business contracts proceeds in three broad steps. First, determine the structure of the negotiation process by applying general knowledge about auctions and domain-specific knowledge about the contract subject along with preferences from po-
Fecha:	2002-10-23
Recurso:	MIT

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72.

Procedural reflection in programming languages
Smith, Brian Cantwell

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Brian Cantwell Smith., Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1982., MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ENGINEERING., Bibliography: leaves 756-761.
Fecha:	2005-08-04
Recurso:	MIT

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73.

Improving an image annotation and retrieval agent using commonsense and personal knowledge, Improving an image retrieval agent using commonsense and personal knowledge
Waters, Kimberly G. (Kimberly Geneva), 1977-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Kimberly G. Waters., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002., Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-46).
Fecha:	2005-08-24
Recurso:	MIT

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74.

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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75.

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
Recurso:	MIT

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76.

Real options approach to capacity planning under uncertainty
Mittal, Geetanjali, 1979-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	This thesis highlights the effectiveness of Real Options Analysis (ROA) in capacity planning decisions for engineering projects subject to uncertainty. This is in contrast to the irreversible decision-making proposed by the deterministic strategies based on expected estimates of parameters drawn…
Fecha:	2005-09-26
Recurso:	MIT

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77.

Flavors: Message Passing in the Lisp Machine
Weinreb, Daniel - Moon, David

Formato:
Enlaces:	The object oriented programming style used in the Smalltalk and Actor languages is available in Lisp Machine Lisp, and used by the Lisp Machine software system. It is used to perform generic operations on objects. Part of its implementation is…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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78.

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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79.

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:	2003-12-18
Recurso:	MIT

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80.

Knowledge management in banking industry : comparative analysis between U.S. and Japan
Yamagata, Kazunori, 1966-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Kazunori Yamagata., Thesis (S.M.M.O.T.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 2002., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-99).
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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81.

A knowledge-network model of scientific communities
Gonzalez Pinto, Jose Maria, 1975-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Jose Maria Gonzalez Pinto., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, 2002., Includes bibliographical references (p. 68-69).
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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82.

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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83.

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
Recurso:	MIT

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84.

An Equilibrium Model of Rare Event Premia
Liu, Jun - Pan, Jun - Wang, Tan

Formato:
Enlaces:	In this paper, we study the asset pricing implication of imprecise knowledge about rare events. Modeling rare events as jumps in the aggregate endowment, we explicitly solve the equilibrium asset prices in a pure-exchange economy with a representative agent who…
Fecha:	2002-08-12
Recurso:	MIT

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85.

Biocapital : the constitution of post-genomic life
Sunder Rajan, Kaushik, 1974-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	(cont.) In the process, this thesis intervenes in social theoretical debates not simply around the nature and production of knowledge and value, but also around the place of larger belief-systems - relating to religion, nation and ethics - in such…
Fecha:	2005-09-26
Recurso:	MIT

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86.

Discriminative, generative, and imitative learning
Jebara, Tony (Tony S.), 1974-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	I propose a common framework that combines three different paradigms in machine learning: generative, discriminative and imitative learning. A generative probabilistic distribution is a principled way to model many machine learning and machine perception problems. Therein, one provides domain specific…
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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87.

Social capital and microfinance
Karlan, Dean S

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Chapter one is titled "Social Capital and Group Banking." Lending to the poor is costly due to high screening, monitoring, and enforcement costs. Group lending advocates believe individuals are able to select creditworthy peers, monitor the use of loan proceeds,…
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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88.

Spinning off new ventures from research institutions outside high tech entrepreneurial areas
Degroof, Jean-Jacques

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	In this thesis, I examine how spinning off new ventures from academic institutions works in an environment outside developed high tech clusters and how it affects models of ventures. I examine these questions by studying the case of Belgium. There…
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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89.

Fundamental analysis and conceptual model for corporate strategy in global engineering and construction markets
Cheah, Yuen Jen, 1972-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Strategic management as an academic field of study has spanned over four decades. As an interdisciplinary subject that enjoys concurrent contributions by allied disciplines such as economics and social science, numerous industries have benefited from applying tools and concepts developed…
Fecha:	2005-08-24
Recurso:	MIT

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90.

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
Recurso:	MIT

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91.

Collaborating across boundaries : theoretical, empirical, and simulated explorations
Black, Laura J. (Laura Jean), 1963-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Complex goods and processes require ever more sophisticated and specialized knowledge; harnessing multiple kinds of expertise to execute tasks, solve problems, and develop strategies is increasingly critical to organizations' survival. When specialists come together, however, they often speak in different…
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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92.

Kinetics and dynamics measured using IntraCavity Laser Absorption Spectroscopy, Kinetics and dynamics measured using ICLAS
Witonsky, Scott Kenneth, 1975-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	IntraCavity Laser Absorption Spectroscopy (ICLAS) is a high-resolution, high sensitivity spectroscopic method capable of measuring line positions, linewidths, lineshapes, and absolute line intensities with a sensitivity that far exceeds that of a traditional multiple pass absorption cell or Fourier Transform…
Fecha:	2005-03-22
Recurso:	MIT

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93.

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
Recurso:	MIT

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94.

Controlling open quantum systems
Fortunato, Evan Matthew

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	This thesis describes the development and experimental verification (via liquid state nuclear magnetic resonance techniques) of new methods for controlling open quantum systems. First, methods that improve coherent control through the use of both strong control fields and detailed knowledge…
Fecha:	2005-06-02
Recurso:	MIT

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95.

Folk computing : designing technology to support face-to-face community building
Borovoy, Richard Daniel

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Creating common ground in a community of people who do not all know each other is a chicken-and-egg problem: members do not share enough common ground to support the kinds of conversations that help build it. "Folk Computing" technology is…
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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96.

Spectroscopic investigations of the X and A state dynamics of ¹³C₂H₂
Silva, Michelle Lee, 1974-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	The objective of the experiments described in this thesis is to perform a detailed spectroscopic study of the dynamics on the A and X state surfaces of 13C2H2 in order to further understand the acetylene - vinylidene isomerization process in…
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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97.

A multiobjective, multidisciplinary design optimization methodology for the conceptual design of distributed satellite systems
Jilla, Cyrus D., 1974-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	A multiobjective, multidisciplinary design optimization methodology for mathematically modeling the distributed satellite system (DSS) conceptual design problem as an optimization problem has been developed to advance the state-of-the-art in complex distributed satellite network design. An increasing number of space missions…
Fecha:	2005-05-19
Recurso:	MIT

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98.

Chondrocyte metabolism and matrix nano-electromechanics : the response to cartilage tissue shear deformation
Jin, Moonsoo, 1971-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Cartilage functions as a load bearing and friction reducing material in synovial joints and it is constantly exposed to in vivo loading which is coupled to electromechanical and physicochemical forces. The swelling pressure of cartilage originates from proteoglycans containing negatively…
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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99.

Multivariate endpoint detection of plasma etching processes
Goodlin, Brian E., 1974-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	In plasma etching process it is critical to know when the film being etched has cleared to the underlying film, i.e. to detect endpoint, in order to achieve the desired device performance in the resulting integrated circuit. The most highly…
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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100.

Role of stage gates in effective knowledge sharing during the product development process
Ramchandani, Tulsi D., 1947-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Tulsi D. Ramchandani., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2002., "February 2002.", Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-139).
Fecha:	2005-09-27
Recurso:	MIT