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

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

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On "Learnable" Representations of Knowledge: A Meaning for the Computational Metaphor
diSessa, Andrea A.

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Enlaces:	The computational metaphor which proposes the comparison of processes of mind to realizable or imaginable computer activities suggests a number of educational concerns. This paper discusses some of those concerns including procedural modes of knowledge representation and control knowledge ??owing…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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Understanding Understanding Mathematics
Michener, Edwina Rissland

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Enlaces:	In this paper we look at some of the ingredients and processes involved in the understanding of mathematics. We analyze elements of mathematical knowledge, organize them in a coherent way and take note of certain classes of items that share…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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

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

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Learning and Reasoning by Analogy: The Details
Winston, Patrick H.

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Enlaces:	We use analogy when we say something is a Cinderella story and when we learn about resistors by thinking about water pipes. We also use analogy when we learn subjects like Economics, Medicine and Law. This paper presents a theory…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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A Hypothetical Monologue Illustrating the Knowledge Underlying Program Analysis
Shrobe, Howard E. - Waters, Richard C. - Sussman, Gerald J.

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Enlaces:	Automated Program Analysis is the process of discovering decompositions of a system into sub-units such that the behavior of the whole program can be inferred from the behavior of its parts. Analysis can be employed to increase the explanatory power…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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The Connection Machine
Hillis, W. Daniel

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Enlaces:	This paper describes the connection memory, a machine for concurrently manipulating knowledge stored in semantic networks. We need the connection memory because conventional serial computers cannot move through such networks fast enough. The connection memory sidesteps the problem by providing…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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The Genetic Epistemology of Rule Systems
Goldstein, Ira P.

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Enlaces:	I shall describe a model of the evolution of the rule-structured knowledge that serves as a cornerstone of our development of computer-based coaches. The key idea is a graph structure whose nodes represent rules, and whose links represent various evolutionary…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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Understanding Hand-Printed Algebra for Computer Tutoring
Purcell, Stephen C.

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Enlaces:	This thesis demonstrates how the use of a global context can improve the power of a local character recognizer. The global context considered is a computer tutor of high school algebra that observes a student working algebra problems on a…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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Open Systems
Hewitt, Carl - Jong, Peter de

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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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11.

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

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

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Analysis of a duo-selecting membrane reactor for the water-gas shift
Hardy, AliciA Jillian Jackson, 1978-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	The water-gas shift reaction is an exothermic and reversible catalytic process that converts carbon monoxide and water (steam) to hydrogen and carbon dioxide. In regard to energy-related issues, the water-gas shift is part of the process of reforming hydrocarbons to…
Fecha:	2005-09-06
Recurso:	MIT

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

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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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Strained Silicon on Silicon by Wafer Bonding and Layer Transfer from Relaxed SiGe Buffer
Isaacson, David M. - Taraschi, G. - Pitera, Arthur J. - Ariel, Nava - Fitzgerald, Eugene A. - Langdo, Thomas A.

Formato:	Article
Enlaces:	We report the creation of strained silicon on silicon (SSOS) substrate technology. The method uses a relaxed SiGe buffer as a template for inducing tensile strain in a Si layer, which is then bonded to another Si handle wafer. The…
Fecha:	2004-12-10
Recurso:	MIT

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Knowledge trading : computational support for individual and collaborative sense-making activities
Keel, Paul E. (Paul Erich)

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	(cont.) outlined. 2. Demonstration that computer systems can use the discovered relations among data items to help users search for relevant information, prioritize the data exchange between collaborating users, and visualize data in various ways. This investigation looks at how…
Fecha:	2005-09-27
Recurso:	MIT

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The design and structural characterization of oligomeric beta beta alpha mini-proteins
Ali, Mayssam H. (Mayssam Hani), 1976-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	Oligomeric mini-proteins, short peptides with protein-like features, constitute valuable minimal models for the study of oligomeric proteins. Oligomerization is a common feature of cellular proteins that may confer structural and functional advantages. Oligomerization is proposed to have arisen by several…
Fecha:	2005-06-02
Recurso:	MIT

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Better learning of mechanics through information technology
Regalado S., Carlos A. (Carlos Andrés Regalado Santamaría), 1971-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	(cont.) visualize complex geometric arrangements. Finally, the tools developed represent an alternative to what learning technology has always done; transmit academic knowledge to the student. These tools are an example of how IT can be used to go beyond the…
Fecha:	2005-09-27
Recurso:	MIT

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18.

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

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

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20.

Putting Patents in Context:Exploring Knowledge Transfer from MIT
Agrawal, Ajay - Henderson, Rebecca

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	In this paper we explore the degree to which patents are representative of the magnitude, direction, and impact of the knowledge spilling out of the university by focusing on MIT, and in particular on the departments of Mechanical and Electrical…
Fecha:	2003-12-18
Recurso:	MIT

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

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

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23.

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

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Enlaces:	This paper descries D-SCRIPT, a language for representing knowledge in artificial intelligence programs. D-SCRIPT contains a powerful formalism for descriptions, which permits the representation of statements that are problematical for other systems. Particular attention is paid to problems of opaque…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
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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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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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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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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A Computational Model for the Acquisition and Use of Phonological Knowledge
Yip, Kenneth - Sussman, Gerald Jay

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Enlaces:	Does knowledge of language consist of symbolic rules? How do children learn and use their linguistic knowledge? To elucidate these questions, we present a computational model that acquires phonological knowledge from a corpus of common English nouns and verbs. In…
Fecha:	2004-10-08
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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The Influence of Customer Scope on Supplier Learning and Performance in the Japanese Automobile Industry
Nobeoka, Kentaro - Dyer, Jeffrey

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Enlaces:	Most studies on Japanese supplier-automaker relationships have focused on the nature of the dyadic inter-firm relationship and the performance of the assembler. We examine the relationship between a Japanese supplier's "customer scope strategy" (i.e. number of customers) and the supplier's…
Fecha:	2002-07-18
Recurso:	MIT

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The Design and Implementation of a Corporate Householding Knowledge Processor to Improve Data Quality
Madnick, Stuart - Wang, Richard - Xian, Xiang

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Advances in Corporate Householding are needed to address certain categories of data quality problems caused by data misinterpretation. In this paper, we first summarize some of these data quality problems and our more recent results from studying corporate householding applications…
Fecha:	2004-02-06
Recurso:	MIT

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34.

Spatial Knowledge
Kuipers, Benjamin

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Enlaces:	This paper introduces a model of spatial cognition to describe the states of partial knowledge that people have about the spatial structure of a large-scale environment. Spatial knowledge has several different representations, each of which captures one aspect of the…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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35.

Meta-Rules: Reasoning About Control
Davis - Randall

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Enlaces:	How can we insure that knowledge embedded in a program is applied effectively? Traditionally the answer to this question has been sought in different problem solving paradigms and in different approaches to encoding and indexing knowledge. Each of these is…
Fecha:	2004-10-08
Recurso:	MIT

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36.

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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37.

Jokes and the Logic of the Cognitive Unconscious
Minsky, Marvin

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Enlaces:	Freud's theory of jokes explains how they overcome the mental "censors" that make it hard for us to think "forbidden" thoughts. But his theory did not work so well for humorous nonsense as for other comical subjects. In this essay…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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38.

The Progressive Construction of Mind
Lawler, Robert W.

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Enlaces:	We propose a vision of the structure of knowledge and processes of learning based upon the particularity of experience. Highly specific cognitive structures are constructed through activities in limited domains of experience. For new domains, new cognitive structures develop from…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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39.

Frame-based Text Processing
Rosenberg, Steven T.

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Enlaces:	This paper presents an overview of a theory of discourse structure, and discusses a model for assimilating text into a frame-based data structure. The model has been applied to the analysis of news articles. The theory assumes sentences contain links…
Fecha:	2004-10-01
Recurso:	MIT

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40.

Using English For Indexing and Retrieving
Katz, Boris

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Enlaces:	This paper describes a natural language system START. The system analyzes English text and automatically transforms it into an appropriate representation, the knowledge base, which incorporates the information found in the text. The user gains access to information stored in…
Fecha:	2004-10-04
Recurso:	MIT

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41.

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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42.

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

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

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43.

Exploring innovative designs by relaxing criteria and reasoning from precedent knowledge
Navinchandra, Dundee J

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Dundee J. Navinchandra., Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1988., Includes index., Bibliography: leaves 190-196.
Fecha:	2005-08-08
Recurso:	MIT

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44.

Computer aided design of circular tunnels using analysis and knowledge-based rules
Brito, Jaime Francisco

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Jaime Francisco Brito., Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994., Includes bibliographical references (leaf 348).
Fecha:	2005-08-16
Recurso:	MIT

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45.

Online community : knowledge management
Zemlyakova, Yevgeniya (Yevgeniya Vladimirovna), 1976-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Yevgeniya Zemlyakova., Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000., Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-86).
Fecha:	2005-08-23
Recurso:	MIT

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46.

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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48.

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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49.

Rescuing endangered knowledge : a systems approach
Ritchie, Shawn W., 1965-

Formato:	Thesis
Enlaces:	by Shawn W. Ritchie., Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design and Management Program, 1999., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-81).
Fecha:	2005-08-19
Recurso:	MIT

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Exemplifying Business Opportunities for Improving Data Quality From Corporate Household Research
Madnick, Stuart - Wang, Richard - Chettayar, Krishna - Dravis, Frank - Funk, James - Katz-Haas, Raïssa - Lee, Cindy - Lee, Yang - Xian, Xiang - Bhansali, Sumit

Formato:	Working Paper
Enlaces:	Corporate household (CHH) refers to the organizational information about the structure within the corporation and a variety of inter-organizational relationships. Knowledge derived from this data is becoming increasingly important for improving data quality in applications, such as Customer…
Fecha:	2004-12-10
Recurso:	MIT