The Quest

Silence as the Ultimate Fulfillment of the Philosophical Quest

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The Quest for Uncertainty

The question of how to represent and process uncertainty is of fundamental importance to the scientific process, but also in everyday life. Currently there exist a lot of different calculi for managing uncertainty, each having its own advantages and disadvantages. Especially, almost all are defining the domain and structure of uncertainty values a priori, e.g., one real number, two real numbers...

The quest for Hickman.

Henry Hill Hickman (1800-1830), "the Rupert Brooke of anaesthesia",1 has a wellestablished place in medical history. A Shropshire general practitioner, who died young, he successfully carried out minor surgical procedures on animals rendered insensible by carbon dioxide and published his results in 1824 in a locally-printed pamphlet, which was reviewed unfavourably in the Lancet and Gentleman's...

The Orc Quest Example

Resource-based planning systems have recently begun to mushroom | an indication that AI planning systems have nally started to tackle real-world problems. However, resources tend to be neglected. Conventional plan length is still the primary optimization goal, resources being of only secondary importance. This paper illustrates the problem and gives an overview of the Excalibur agent's planning...