Elaboration tolerance through object-orientation

Elaboration tolerance through object-orientation

Although many formalisms for reasoning about action and change have been proposed in the literature, any concrete examples provided in such articles have primarily consisted of tiny domains that highlight some particular aspect or problem. However, since some of the classical problems are now completely or partially solved and since powerful tools are becoming available, it is now necessary to ...

Elaboration in Object Descriptions through Examples

Examples are often used along with textual descriptions to help convey particular ideas especially in instructional or explanatory contexts. These accompanying examples reflect information in the surrounding text, and in turn, also influence the text. Sometimes, examples replace possible (textual) elaborations in the description. It is thus clear that if object descriptions are to be generated,...

Elaboration Tolerance

A formalism is elaboration tolerant to the extent that it is convenient to modify a set of facts expressed in the formalism to take into account new phenomena or changed circumstances. Representations of information in natural language have good elaboration tolerance when used with human background knowledge. Human-level AI will require representations with much more elaboration tolerance than ...

Algorithm Simplification Through Object Orientation

The object oriented (O-O) approach is claimed to have a number of advantages. Some support to these claims appeared during an O-O redesign of a legacy CAD system. A surprisingly simple and efficient solution algorithm was discovered for a change propagation problem. The analysis of the case employs the new concepts of implementation and extension complexity, which indicate the amount of code (s...

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