How Long Will Business as Usual Be Sustained?

Will the Decade of Vaccines mean business as usual?

Scientific Workflows: Business as Usual?

Business workflow management and business process modeling are mature research areas, whose roots go far back to the early days of office automation systems. Scientific workflow management, on the other hand, is a much more recent phenomenon, triggered by (i) a shift towards data-intensive and computational methods in the natural sciences, and (ii) the resulting need for tools that can simplify...

How Minds Will Be Built

Artificial intelligence started with the goal of understanding minds by attempting to build them. This essay discussed how our field’s research has become unbalanced, and what might be done to change this situation. Specifically, I argue that more of our efforts should be focused on creating integrated cognitive systems. The founding of this journal will hopefully help by promoting such research.

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How Long Will It Take?

We present a method for approximating the expected number of steps required by a heuristic search algorithm to reach a goal from any initial state in a problem space. The method is based on a mapping from the original state space to an abstract space in which states are characterized only by a syntactic “distance” from the nearest goal. Modeling the search algorithm as a Markov process in the a...