An architecture of diversity for commonsense reasoning

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 530-539

  McCarthy, J ^a   Minsky, M ^b   Sloman, A ^c   Gong, L ^d   Lau, T ^d   Morgenstern, L ^d   Mueller, E T ^d   Riecken, D ^d   Singh, M ^d   Singh, P ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COMMONSENSE REASONING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0036994890     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/SJ.2002.5386871     Document Type: Review

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