For many years, Arti?cial Intelligence technology has served in a great variety of successful applications. AI researchand researchershave contributed much to the vision of the so-called Information Society. As early as the 1980s, some of us imagined distributed knowledge bases containing the explicable knowledge of a company or any other organization. Today, such systems are becoming reality. In the process, other technologies have had to be developed and AI-technology has blended with them, and companies are now sensitive to this topic. TheInternetandWWWhaveprovidedtheglobalinfrastructure,whileatthe same time companies have become global in nearly every aspect of enterprise. This process has just started, a little experience has been gained, and therefore it is tempting to re?ect and try to forecast, what the next steps may be. This has given us one of the two main topics of the 23rd Annual German Conference on Arti?cial Intelligence (KI-99)held at the University of Bonn: The Knowledge Society. Two of our invited speakers, Helmut Willke, Bielefeld, and Hans-Peter Kriegel, Munich, dwell on di?erent aspects with di?erent perspectives. Helmut Willke deals with the concept of virtual organizations, while Hans-Peter Kriegel applies data mining concepts to pattern recognitiontasks.The three application forums are also part of the Knowledge Society topic: “IT-based innovation for environment and development”, “Knowledge management in enterprises”, and “Knowledgemanagementinvillageandcityplanningoftheinformationsociety”.
Author(s): Helmut Willke (auth.), Wolfram Burgard, Armin B. Cremers, Thomas Cristaller (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1701 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 316
Tags: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Image Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition
From AI to Systemic Knowledge Management....Pages 1-13
MINERVA: A Tour-Guide Robot that Learns....Pages 14-26
Dynamics, Morphology, and Materials in the Emergence of Cognition....Pages 27-44
Natural Language Description of Image Sequences as a Form of Knowledge Representation....Pages 45-60
Knowledge Discovery in Spatial Databases....Pages 61-74
Cooperative Distributed Vision: Dynamic Integration of Visual Perception, Action, and Communication....Pages 75-88
Computing Probabilistic Least Common Subsumers in Description Logics....Pages 89-100
Revising Nonmonotonic Theories: The Case of Defeasible Logic....Pages 101-112
On the Translation of Qualitative Spatial Reasoning Problems into Modal Logics....Pages 113-124
Following Conditional Structures of Knowledge....Pages 125-136
A Theory of First-Order Counterfactual Reasoning....Pages 137-148
Logic—Based Choice of Projective Terms....Pages 149-158
Knowledge Based Automatic Composition and Variation of Melodies for Minuets in Early Classical Style....Pages 159-170
Inferring Flow of Control in Program Synthesis by Example....Pages 171-182
Compilation Schemes: A Theoretical Tool for Assessing the Expressive Power of Planning Formalisms....Pages 183-194
Generalized Cases: Representation and Steps Towards Efficient Similarity Assessment....Pages 195-206
Be Busy and Unique — or Be History—The Utility Criterion for Removing Units in Self-Organizing Networks....Pages 207-218
Development of Decision Support Algorithms for Intensive Care Medicine: A New Approach Combining Time Series Analysis and a Knowledge Base System with Learning and Revision Capabilities....Pages 219-230
Object Recognition with Shape Prototypes in a 3D Construction Scenario....Pages 231-242
Probabilistic, Prediction-Based Schedule Debugging for Autonomous Robot Office Couriers....Pages 243-254
Collaborative Multi-robot Localization....Pages 255-266
Object Classification Using Simple, Colour Based Visual Attention and a Hierarchical Neural Network for Neuro-symbolic Integration....Pages 267-279
A Flexible Architecture for Driver Assistance Systems....Pages 281-284
A Theory for Causal Reasoning....Pages 285-288
Systematic vs. Local Search for SAT....Pages 289-293
Information Environments for Software Agents....Pages 295-298
Improving Reasoning Efficiency for Subclasses of Allen’s Algebra with Instantiation Intervals....Pages 299-302
Agents in Traffic Modelling — From Reactive to Social Behaviour....Pages 303-306
Time-Effect Relations of Medical Interventions in a Clinical Information System....Pages 307-310
