Northeast Artificial Intelligence Consortium (NAIC). Volume 6. Building an intelligent assistant: The acquisition, integration, and maintenance of complex distributed tasks. Final report, Sep 84-Dec 89

Technical Report · Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:5439439

Lesser, V R; Croft, W B

The Northeast Artificial Intelligence Consortium (NAIC) was created by the Air Force Systems Command, Rome Air Development Center, and the Office of Scientific Research. Its purpose was to conduct pertinent research in artificial intelligence and to perform activities ancillary to this research. This report describes progress during the existence of the NAIC on the technical research tasks undertaken at the member universities. The topics covered in general are: versatile expert system for equipment maintenance, distributed AI for communications system control, automatic photointerpretation, time-oriented problem solving, speech understanding systems, knowledge base maintenance, hardware architectures for very large systems, knowledge-based reasoning and planning, and a knowledge acquisition, assistance, and explanation system. The specific topic for this volume is the development of intelligent interfaces to support cooperating users in their interactions with a computer.

• Research Organization: Northeast Artificial Intelligence Consortium, Syracuse, NY (United States)
• OSTI ID: 5439439
• Report Number(s): AD-A-234885/2/XAB; CNN: F30602-85-C-0008
• Resource Relation: Other Information: See also Volume 7, AD-A234 886
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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