AI '88: 2nd Australian Joint Artificial Intelligence Conference Adelaide, Australia, November 15–18, 1988 Proceedings

A perspective on the nature of artificial intelligence....Pages 1-6
What can massively parallel architectures bring to AI?....Pages 7-11
Herbicide advisory systems: Weeds in wheat and other crops....Pages 13-29
A real-time knowledge-based system for frequency management in communications....Pages 30-39
Experiences in developing an intelligent operator guidance system....Pages 40-47
Combining heuristics and simulation models....Pages 48-61
The use of expert knowledge in the selection of CIG welding consumables....Pages 62-74
A knowledge based simulation of critical incidents in anaesthesia....Pages 75-89
DISSOLVE : A system for the generation of human oriented solutions to algebraic equations....Pages 91-107
Student modelling in a keyboard scale tutoring system....Pages 108-123
Contradictions and revisions as explanatory aids in the delivery of technical information....Pages 124-139
A case study in deterministic prolog....Pages 141-155
Exploring the epistemic labyrinth: New directions in the formal theory of knowledge representation....Pages 156-176
A temporal relational calculus....Pages 177-186
Counterfactuals, cotenability and consistency....Pages 187-201
A knowledge acquisition tool for decision support systems....Pages 203-213
Adaptive data stores....Pages 214-224
Techniques for efficient empirical induction....Pages 225-239
Representing exceptions in rule-based systems....Pages 240-255
Conceptual graphs from a knowledge systems viewpoint....Pages 256-271
Implementing second generation rule-based financial applications today....Pages 273-291
Knowledge in context: A strategy for expert system maintenance....Pages 292-306
Integrating knowledge acquisition and performance systems....Pages 307-326
A machine vision system with learning capabilities....Pages 327-346
Range from out of focus blur....Pages 347-362
Environment mapping with a mobile robot using sonar....Pages 363-378
Incorporating knowledge via regularization theory: applications in vision and image processing....Pages 379-394
Common-sense resolution of syntactic ambiguity in database queries....Pages 395-409
Capability based natural language understanding....Pages 410-421
Character pattern recognition on a computational neural network....Pages 423-431
Distributed planning and control for manufacturing operations....Pages 432-448
Parallelism in nonmonotonic multiple inheritance systems....Pages 449-462