Analysis of strategic knowledge in back of the envelope reasoning

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 651-656

  Paritosh, Praveen K ^a   Forbus, Kenneth D ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVELOPE PROBLEM SOLVING STRATEGIES; GENERAL-PURPOSE PROBLEM; STRATEGIC KNOWLEDGE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ASTRONOMY; DATA PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 29344463442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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