: Autologous breast reconstruction surgery is a vital part of the recovery process for patients with cancer. While various reconstructive options exist, deep inferior epigastric artery perforator (DIEP) flap often favoured its ability to closely mimic natural tissue. However, complex vascular anatomy associated (DIEA) presents challenges surgeons during DIEP execution. Preoperative imaging, suc...

The goal of the Multimodal User Supervised Interface and Intelligent Control (MUSIIC) project is to develop an assistive manipulative robotic system for use in an unstructured environment by people with manipulatory disabilities. MUSIIC integrates a speech and pointing based human-machine interface with autonomous planning techniques from artificial intelligence. This paper describes the curren...

Interval-based temporal reasoning is an important field of various areas of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, such as planning and natural language processing. In this paper we show that the satisfiability problem for one of the most important formalisms for interval-based reasoning, namely Allen’s Interval Algebra, can be reduced to the satisfiability problem for Propositional Neig...

This abstract describes work in developing knowledge base editing and debugging tools for the Multimission VICAR Planner (MVP) system. MVP uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) Planning techniques to automatically construct executable complex image processing procedures (using models of the smaller constituent image processing subprograms) in response to image processing requests made to the JPL Mu...

The American Association for Artificial Intelligence held its 1990 Spring Symposium Series on March 27–29 at Stanford University, Stanford, California. This article contains a short summary of seven of the nine symposia that were conducted (reports were unavailable for the symposia Planning in Uncertain, Unpredictable, and Changing Environments and The Theory and Application of Minimal-Length E...

Past applications of artificial intelligence techniques to shop floor control tasks arc reviewed. In the area of resource allocation in distributed manufacturing D’stems, the issue of resource reconfiguration is identified as a neglected problem. A game theoretic planning model suitable for use in a distributed shop floor control environment is introduced. Autonomous machine controllers consult...

forecasting of municipal waste generation is a critical challenge for decision making and planning,because proper planning and operation of a solid waste management system is intensively affected by municipal solid waste (msw) streams analysis and accurate predictions of solid waste quantities generated. due to dynamic and complexity of solid waste management system, models by artificial intell...