Limits of Artificial Intelligence: a perspective from the psychobiological development

Artificial Intelligence: A Rand Perspective

This article presents a brief history of artificial intelligence research at the Rand Corporation. Rand has long been a leader in the field of AI, beginning with the seminal work of Newell, Shaw, and Simon some thirty years ago, and continues with recent work in expert systems and knowledge-based simulation. This article traces the major accomplishments in AI at Rand with particular emphasis on...

Ambient Intelligence - A State of the Art from Artificial Intelligence Perspective

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) deals with a new world where computing devices are spread everywhere (ubiquity), allowing the human being to interact in physical world environments in an intelligent and unobtrusive way. These environments should be aware of the needs of people, customizing requirements and forecasting behaviours. AmI environments may be so diverse, such as homes, offices, meeting ro...

Artificial Intelligence in Perspective: A Retrospective on Fifty Volumes of the Artificial Intelligence Journal

When the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) put out its fiftieth volume in 1991, it seemed an appropriate time to look at the field through the perspective of the publication of the journal. The growth from one volume of 300 pages in 1970 to six volumes of almost 2400 pages in 1991 reflects the academic growth of the field. The fifty volumes include almost six hundred published papers. To ca...

Artificial Intelligence in a historical perspective

Nebel : Artificial intelligence : A Computational Perspective

The paper provides three novel contributions to knowledge engineering. First, we provide a structured approach for the development and adaptation of problem-solving methods. We start from very generic search strategies with weak data structures and add adapters that refine the states and state transitions of the search process and that add assumptions necessary to link the competence of a metho...