GWAI-92: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 16th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Bonn, Germany, August 31 - September 3, 1992. Proceed [Paperback]

This volume gives the proceedings of the sixteenth GermanConference on Artificial Intelligence, held in the GustavStresemann Institute in Berlin from August 31 to September3, 1992. The volume contains 24 papers presentedin thetechnical sessions, 8 papers selected from the workshopcontributions, and an invited talk by D.M. Gabbay entitled Howto construct a logic for your application .Topics discussed in the technical papers include: a modelelimination calculus, a sorted logic, human theorem proving,deduction based on Shannon graphs, expert systemapplications, knowledge engineering, time interval networks,forward logic evaluation, concept support, heuristicinductivegeneralization, language engineering, featurelogic, similarity assessment, and many others.How to construct a logic for your application.- A model elimination calculus with built-in theories.- A new sorted logic.- An explanatory framework for human theorem proving.- Towards first-order deduction based on Shannon graphs.- Success and failure of expert systems in. different fields of industrial application.- Viewing knowledge engineering as a symbiosis of Modeling to make sense and modeling to implement systems.- Cases as a basis for knowledge acquisition in the pre-formal phases of knowledge engineering.- Controlling generate & test in any time.- Efficient computation of solutions for contradictory time interval networks.- Extensions of concept languages for a mechanical engineering application.- Combining terminological and rule-based reasoning for abstraction processes.- Forward logic evaluation: Compiling a partially evaluated meta-interpreter into the WAM.- Concept support as a method for programming neural networks with symbolic knowledge.- A heuristic inductive generalization method and its application to VLSI-design.- Learning plan abstractions.- On discontinuous Q-Functions in reinforcement learning.- An intelligent tutoring systlû