Closing the Knowledge-Action Gap in Climate Change

Closing the AI Knowledge Gap

AI researchers employ not only the scientific method, but also methodology from mathematics and engineering. However, the use of the scientific method – specifically hypothesis testing – in AI is typically conducted in service of engineering objectives. Growing interest in topics such as fairness and algorithmic bias show that engineering-focused questions only comprise a subset of the importan...

Closing the Technology Gap? Closing the Technology Gap?

This paper focuses on the dimensions shaping the dynamics of technology. We present a model where the knowledge stock of a country grows over time as a function of three main factors: its innovation intensity, its technological infrastructures and its human capital. The latter two variables contribute to determine the absorptive capacity of a country as well as its innovative ability. Based on ...

Interactive Perception: Closing the Gap Between Action and Perception

We introduce Interactive Perception as a new perceptual paradigm for autonomous robotics in unstructured environments. Interactive perception augments the process of perception with physical interactions, thus integrating robotics and computer vision. By integrating interactions into the perceptual process, it is possible to manipulate the environment so as to uncover information relevant for t...

Closing the health care disparities gap: turning evidence into action.

Integrating Action Calculi and AgentSpeak: Closing the Gap

Existing action calculi provide rich, declarative formalisms for reasoning about actions. BDI-based programming languages like AgentSpeak, on the other hand, are procedural and geared towards practical applications of cognitive agents. In this paper, we close the gap between these two lines of research by integrating action calculi and AgentSpeak programs. Specifically, we develop a new and pur...