Artificial Intelligence (AI), is once again in the phase of drastic advancements. Unarguably, the technology itself can revolutionize the way we live our everyday life. But the exponential growth of technology poses a daunting task for policy researchers and law makers in making amendments to the existing norms. In addition, not everyone in the society is studying the potential socio-economic i...

This paper discusses the identity of embodied AI, i.e. it asks the question exactly what it is that makes AI research embodied. From an engineering perspective, it is fairly clear that embodied AI is about robotic, i.e. physically embodied systems. From the scientific perspective of AI as building models of natural cognition or intelligence, however, things are less clear. On the one hand embod...

In a recent paper BS91] we introduced a new uniication algorithm for the combination of disjoint equational theories. Among other consequences we mentioned (1) that the algorithm provides us with a decision procedure for the solvability of general A-and AI-uniication problems and (2) that Kapur and Narendran's result about the NP-decidability of the solvability of general AC-and ACI-uniication ...

This longitudinal experiment investigated the efficiency effectiveness and group member perceptions of dialectical inquiry (DI) and constructive consensus (CC) approaches to strategic decision making in an asynchronous (distributed) Computer-Mediated-Communications (CMC) environment. There were no dQ,%erences between DI and CC groups in terms of decision effectiveness. DI groups required signlj...

A special session entitled “Future Directions In Artificial Intelligence” was held at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Washington, D.C. in August. The session, chaired by Jack Minker, was held to honor Soviet cyberneticist Alexander Yankelovich Lerner’s seventieth birthday. Minker described Dr. Lerner’s contributions to science. Participants Saul Amarel, Nils Nilsson, John ...

Sailing represents a new area of research within the field of applied AI. This paper gives a global overview of an ongoing broad-scoped research programme, called the RoboSail project (www.robosail.com). Part of this project is the realization of a semiautonomous intelligent pilot and a decision support system, assisting sailors in optimizing sailboat performance. The project encompasses a wide...

Inquiry skills are critical to virtually any kind of problem solving and particularly to the practice of science. However, these skills cannot be easily assessed using traditional static assessment items, in which it is difficult to follow (and capture) the actual inquiry process. Given a sufficiently interactive task, the challenge becomes how to identify and score the inquiry skills applied t...

This paper introduces Swarm AI, the first general framework for designing Swarm Intelligence approaches to problems. We outline principles of Swarm AI, discuss its connection to previous work, and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of this method. Finally, we describe a case study of applying Swarm AI to a new problem. Specifically, we discuss the design of a soccer team, using the princi...

This paper discusses the issues involved in applying a generic AI planner to the problem of generating plant operating procedures for chemical process plant. It considers the problem of providing the correct planning facilities, concentrating on dealing with flow of chemicals, and proposes the use and integration of a special purpose planner for valve sequencing. It goes on to consider the know...