ion—are actually the things that get reused a lot. As we pointed out in the PROGRAMMER’S APPRENTICE a long time ago, most programs Articles WINTER 2000 53 Dynamic Domain Architecture for Robust Systems

In engineering problems with a weak domain theory, such as environmental evaluation, machine learning techniques should bring to bear any existing background knowledge so as to guide the knowledge acquisition process. This paper proposes an Interactive Inductive Learning System (IILS) which can use background knowledge provided by the experts to avoid many incorrect or incomplete induced heuris...

This is the judging session for the Panel 4A: Apprentice – VTS edition. The main objective of this active “panel” is to increase technical interaction among attendees. Team leaders listed below will recruit participants to their team. Each team will try to clearly articulate the problems and come up with ways to solve this problem in the form of new business proposal. The teams will present the...

1.3 The roles of the two par~cicipants are_ also not fixed completely. In the type C interaction, sometimes P2 paz~ly plays the role of an ex~ (or at least appears to do so) believing that his/her ex~ advice may help the system answer the question more 'easily' or 'efficiently'. For example l, in a pollution data base P1 may ask: Has company A dumped any ,~Bstes last week? and follow up with ad...

Athletes, coaches, sports scientists and staff work together to achieve laurels for their country. However, fierce competition internationally puts enormous pressure on athletes coaches. Excelling in the Olympics requires training technique, talent, physiology, psychology, biomechanics, nutrition, etc. Bad techniques practices can affect desired outcomes. As a apprentice, an attempt has been ma...