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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 Structure of Mathematical Knowledge
Michener, Edwina Rissland

Formato:
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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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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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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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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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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12.

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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13.

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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14.

Generating Circuit Tests by Exploiting Designed Behavior
Shirley, Mark Harper

Formato:
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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15.

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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16.

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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17.

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

Formato:
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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18.

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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19.

Computational Structure of Human Language
Ristad, Eric Sven

Formato:
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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20.

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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21.

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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22.

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

Formato:
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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23.

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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24.

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

Formato:
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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25.

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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26.

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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27.

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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28.

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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29.

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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30.

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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31.

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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32.

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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33.

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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34.

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

Formato:
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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35.

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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36.

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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37.

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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38.

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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39.

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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40.

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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41.

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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42.

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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43.

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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44.

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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45.

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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46.

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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47.

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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48.

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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49.

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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50.

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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51.

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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52.

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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53.

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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54.

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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55.

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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56.

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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57.

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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58.

Creation of Knowledge and Reverse Logistics. Empirical Analysis from Perspective of the Resource Based View Theory
Ramirez, Antonio Mihi; Granada University - Girdauskiene, Lina; Kaunas University of Technology

Formato:	,
Enlaces:	Reverse logistics activities require the ability to generate new knowledge to reduce high uncertainty and to solve problems resulting of these activities. In this sense the purpose of this research is to understand how the modes of knowledge conversion (Nonaka…
Fecha:	2014-01-03
Recurso:	Engineering Economics

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59.

Meeting up to the challenges of our evolving roles
Abayadeera, Anuja - Pinto, Vasanti

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/article, Non-refereed item, info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enlaces:	The editorial discusses the need to update our knowledge and skills to meet up to the challenges of our evolving role as an anaesthesiologist.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/slja.v22i1.6281
Fecha:	2014-01-06
Recurso:	Sri Lankan journal of Anaesthesiology

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60.

Financial Cooperatives as Drivers for Sustainable Development in the Knowledge Economy
Čepinskis, Jonas; Vytautas Magnus University - Žirgutis, Vytautas; UAB Finansų valdymo sprendimų centras, CEO - Žirgutienė, Sandra; Vytautas Magnus University

Formato:	Peer-reviewed Article
Enlaces:	Sustainable development in the knowledge economy faces new challenges. Sustainable development has its stakeholders and drivers; some of them are more important than the others. Financial cooperatives do not seem a substantial stakeholder of sustainable development, but only at the…
Fecha:	2014-01-14
Recurso:	Environmental Research, Engineering and Management

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61.

An audit on knowledge and practice of obtaining informed consent for invasive procedures among intern medical officers
Ranawaka, Nimali Lochanie - Ranawaka, Nuwan Mahesh - Pinto, Vasanti

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/article, Peer-Reviewed Item, Survay, info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enlaces:	Background Every medical practitioner has ethical, professional and legal responsibilities to respect patients’ autonomy with regard to informed consent. Methodology Intern Medical Officers (IMO) in the first 6 months of internship at the National Hospital of Sri Lanka (NHSL) were…
Fecha:	2014-01-06
Recurso:	Sri Lankan journal of Anaesthesiology

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62.

The Use of Social Media Technologies to Create, Preserve, and Disseminate Indigenous Knowledge and Skills to Communities in East Africa
Owiny, Sylvia A.; The Pennsylvania State University - Mehta, Khanjan; The Pennsylvania State University - Maretzki, Audrey N.; The Pennsylvania State University

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/article, info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion,
Enlaces:	The preservation, management, and sharing of indigenous knowledge is crucial for social and economic development in ruralAfrica. The high rate of illiteracy (print-based) in rural Africa and the exclusion of indigenous knowledge from Western education add to the information gap…
Fecha:	2014-01-15
Recurso:	International journal of communication

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63.

FINANCIAL AUDIT OF FINANCIAL CONTROL VERSUS - AN OVERALL ANALYSIS
MOROSAN, Gheorghe; Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava

Formato:	Peer-reviewed Article
Enlaces:	In our society, the audit is regarded as a branch of financial management conducted to confirm the accuracy of financial reporting in a company, but also to help the company's management, financial and the financial control is regarded as a…
Fecha:	2014-01-17
Recurso:	Ecoforum Journal

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64.

Cohesion Processes in Internal and External Spaces of the European Union: the New Priorities
Melnikas, Borisas; Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

Formato:	,
Enlaces:	Cohesion as an especially important factor of modernization processes, as well as of processes of European integration and enlargement of the European Union are analyzed in this theoretical article. The needs of cohesion and possibilities to activate the cohesion in…
Fecha:	2014-01-03
Recurso:	Engineering Economics

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65.

How the Enthusiasm and Pre-Knowledge of First Year Architectural Students Effects Their Educational Performance
Nazan KIRCI; Gazi University Faculty of Architecture Department of Architecture Maltepe Ankara 06570 - Kemal YILDIRIM

Formato:	Peer-reviewed Article
Enlaces:	This study, which has been carried out by means of a survey of 450 students of 10 departments of architecture in Turkey, has been formed to reveal, from the students’ point of view, in adapting to the new language of…
Fecha:	2014-01-02
Recurso:	Gazi University Journal of Science

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66.

Physico-chemical study of cementitious materials based on binary and ternary binders
Khalifa, Nour El Houda - Bouasker, Marwen - Mounanga, Pierre - Benkahla, Nabil

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/article, Peer-reviewed Article, info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enlaces:	This research aims to study the physico-chemical phenomena occurring during hydration process of binary and ternary cementitious matrices, combining Portland cement (PC), blast furnace slag(BFS) and limestone filler (LF). For this purpose, measurements of the reaction rate and mechanical performances…
Fecha:	2014-01-06
Recurso:	Chemestry and Materials Research

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67.

Rethinking the Applicability of Hermeneutic Systems for Coding and Statistical Analysis of Authorial Intentions in Economics
Vaitkevicius, Sigitas; Kaunas University of Technology

Formato:	,
Enlaces:	In this paper there is described the use of hermeneutic systems for scientific purposes in economics. Rethinking of hermeneutic systems allowed to transform them into economic information scientific collection methods and enabled to design the quantification procedure for collected qualitative…
Fecha:	2014-01-03
Recurso:	Engineering Economics

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Genomic research perspectives in Kazakhstan
Akilzhanova, Ainur; Center for Life Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Astana

Formato:
Enlaces:	Introduction: Technological advancements rapidly propel the field of genome research. Advances in genetics and genomics such as the sequence of the human genome, the human haplotype map, open access databases, cheaper genotyping and chemical genomics, have transformed basic and translational…
Fecha:	2014-01-24
Recurso:	Central Asian Journal of Global Hearth

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A multi-dimensional description of Chilean inmates, Descripción multidimensional de la población carcelaria chilena
Elizabeth León-Mayer; Universidad Nacional de La Plata - María Soledad Cortés; Gendarmería de Chile - Jorge Folino; Universidad Nacional de La Plata

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Enlaces:	The knowledge of the characteristics of the Chilean convict population is of main importance in order to devise Health services in this area, nevertheless there was no representative information on the subject in Chile. This transversal design study describes convicted…
Fecha:	2014-01-15
Recurso:	Psicoperspectivas: individuo y sociedad

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Processes of production of gender subjectivity in academic work: Times and spaces from feminine bodies, Procesos de producción de subjetividad de género en el trabajo académico: Tiempos y espacios desde cuerpos femeninos
Soledad Martínez-Labrín; Universidad del Bío Bío - Bruno Bivort-Urrutia; Universidad del Bío-Bío

Formato:
Enlaces:	Theoretical constructions about time and space produced to describe and understand the relationship between gender and work, in the context of organizational university structures, are discussed. To do so, 5 narratives of academic women on their gender experiences within university…
Fecha:	2014-01-15
Recurso:	Psicoperspectivas: individuo y sociedad

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71.

Virtual materials for the prediction of concrete mechanical properties
Valentini, L. - Parisatto, M. - Artioli, G. - Dalconi, M.C. - Russo, V. - Ferrari, G. - Bullard, J.W.

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/article, Peer-reviewed Article, info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enlaces:	Physical properties such as compressive strength and elastic moduli are of the utmost importance for the structural stability and design of cement-based materials. These properties are strictly related to the microstructure of the binder paste, which in turn varies in…
Fecha:	2014-01-06
Recurso:	Chemestry and Materials Research

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72.

The Multidimensional Impacts of External Price Shocks on the Algerian Economy by using of CGEM
Mohammed, Touitou

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/article, Peer-reviewed Article, info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enlaces:	The global economy has gone through the past ten years a severe recession triggered by the financial catastrophe and the collapse of the commercial and industrial activity in the world. This slowdown has weighed its effects on the growth of…
Fecha:	2014-01-22
Recurso:	Developing country studies

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E-Waste Management: Towards an Appropriate Policy
ASKARI, A. - GHADIMZADEH, A. - GOMES, C. - ISHAK, M.D. BAKRI

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/article, Peer-reviewed Article, info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Enlaces:	The socio-environmental impact of rapidly increasing piles of electrical and electronic waste or E-waste at global level has been evaluated in detail. Malaysian scenario was selected as a case study to analyse various issues regarding generation, storage, transportation and disposal…
Fecha:	2014-01-22
Recurso:	European Journal of Business and Management

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Residential Area Medium Voltage Power Lines; Public Health, and Electric and Magnetic Field Levels
Surku OZEN; Akdeniz University, Engineering Faculty, - Gizem E. OGEL; Akdeniz University, Engineering Faculty, - Selçuk HELHEL; Akdeniz University, Engineering Faculty,

Formato:	Peer-reviewed Article
Enlaces:	In this study, the electric and magnetic fields occurred around the medium voltage power distribution lines (MV-PDL) in the residential area have been analyzed, and different MV and LV power distribution lines (PDL) in Antalya were selected in order to investigate the…
Fecha:	2014-01-02
Recurso:	Gazi University Journal of Science

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75.

The Central Asian Journal of Global Health to Increase Scientific Productivity
Freese, Kyle; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA - Shubnikov, Eugene; Institute of Internal Medicine, Novosibirsk - LaPorte, Ron; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA - Adambekov, Shalkar; Center for Life Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Astana - Askarova, Sholpan; Center for Life Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Astana - Zhumadilov, Zhaxybay; Center for Life Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Astana - Linkov, Faina; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

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Enlaces:	The WHO Collaborating Center at the University of Pittsburgh, USA partnering with Nazarbayev University, developed the Central Asian Journal of Global Health (CAJGH, cajgh.pitt.edu) in order to increase scientific productivity in Kazakhstan and Central Asia. Scientists in this region often…
Fecha:	2014-01-24
Recurso:	Central Asian Journal of Global Hearth

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Vicarious Deliberation: How the Oregon Citizens' Initiative Review Influenced Deliberation in Mass Elections
Gastil, John; The Pennsylvania State University - Richards, Robert; The Pennsylvania State University - Knobloch, Katherine; Colorado State University

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/article, info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion,
Enlaces:	The state of Oregon established the Citizens’ Initiative Review (CIR) to improve the quality of public deliberation during direct elections. To better understand how a deliberative “mini-public” can influence electoral deliberation on complex ballot issues, we analyzed the 2010 CIR’s…
Fecha:	2014-01-02
Recurso:	International journal of communication

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77.

Formato:	info:eu-repo/semantics/article, info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion,
Enlaces:	The state of Oregon established the Citizens’ Initiative Review (CIR) to improve the quality of public deliberation during direct elections. To better understand how a deliberative “mini-public” can influence electoral deliberation on complex ballot issues, we analyzed the 2010 CIR’s…
Fecha:	2014-01-02
Recurso:	International journal of communication