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Moyne, John
Graduate School & University Center, CUNY
New York, New York
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  Social fuzziology: study of fuzziology of social complexity
Dimitrov V., Hodge B., Physica-Verlag, 2002. 185 pp.  Type: Book (9783790815061)

Lotfi Zadeh, of the University of California, Berkeley, introduced the theory of “fuzzy” entities in the 1960s. He is still at it. His seminal paper (published in 1965) introduced the theory of fuzzy sets, which le...

Dec 30 2002  
  A digital library for the dissemination and replication of quantitative social science research
Altman M., Andreev L., Diggory M., King G., Sone A., Verba S., Kiskis D., Krot M. Social Science Computer Review 19(4): 458-470, 2001.  Type: Article

Major libraries are currently engaged in research on the development of digital library systems. Apart from the convenience of such systems, there is an important aspect that the authors do not mention: the desire to provide public ac...

Oct 16 2002  
  Computer-Aided reasoning: ACL2 case studies
Kaufmann M. (ed), Manolios P. (ed), Moore J. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 2000.  Type: Divisible Book

This well-organized book, a sequel to a previous book called Computer-Aided Reasoning: An Approach [1], is a collection of independent case studies by different authors....

Jul 2 2002  
  Efficient reasoning
Greiner R., Darken C., Santoso N. ACM Computing Surveys 33(1): 1-30, 2001.  Type: Article

The authors begin with the premise that many tasks require reasoning--that is, deriving conclusions from a corpus of explicitly stored information--to solve their range of problems. This useful survey presents formal ...

Jul 1 2001  
  Truth from trash: how learning makes sense
Thornton C. (ed), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000. 204 pp.  Type: Book (9780262201278)

Most of the 12 chapters of this book on machine learning begin with hypothetical or true stories and anecdotes, which are well written and amusing, but often appear irrelevant until the author draws some connection to an aspect of lear...

May 1 2000  
  Cambrian intelligence
Brooks R. (ed), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999.  Type: Book (9780262522632)

Articles published by the author over the last 14 years, constituting what he calls the history of the development of “behavior-based robotics,” are collected in this book. This approach to AI and robotic technology...

Dec 1 1999  
  Modelling social action for AI agents
Castelfranchi C. Artificial Intelligence 103(1-2): 157-182, 1998.  Type: Article

The author asserts that in the 1960s and 1970s AI was concernedwith cognitive sciences, but the “new” AI in the 1990sshould be considered a social science discipline. The goal of AI is tounderstand intelligent being...

May 1 1999  
  Intelligent software agents
Murch R., Johnson T., Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1999.  Type: Book (9780130110213)

Agents are “intelligent” tools (programs) with the characteristics of mobility; self-determination; and the ability to solve problems, draw inferences, determine actions, and learn in the process. The authors give s...

Feb 1 1999  
  Planning parallel actions
Lingard A., Richards E. Artificial Intelligence 99(2): 261-324, 1998.  Type: Article

An important function of artificial intelligence is the planning of actions to be performed by some system. In a complex system, plans must be developed for several procedures to take place simultaneously....

Jul 1 1998  
  Behaviorist intelligence and the scaling problem
Tsotsos J. Artificial Intelligence 75(2): 135-160, 1995.  Type: Article

This paper deals with the ancient controversy in psychology between behaviorism and the notion of innate knowledge. In the strict behaviorist view, human behavior and learning are entirely products of stimulus, response, or reaction ac...

Jul 1 1996  
 
 
 
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