The performance of production programs can be improved by firing multiple rules in a production cycle. In this paper, we present the multiple-contextsmultiple-rules (MCMR) model which speeds up production program execution by firing multiple rule concurrently and guarantees the correctness of the solution. The MCMR model is implemented using the RUBIC parallel inference model on the Intel iPSC/...

T he tim e course of the recovery of the sensitivity of the Limulus ven tra l nerve pho to recep to r was m easured during dark adap tation following light ad ap tation by a bright 1 o r 5 s illum ination. The stimulus intensity / CR of a 300 îs light flash evoking a response o f c riterion am plitude (recep to r po ten tial or recep tor curren t u nder voltage clam p conditions) was used as m ...

Cooking beef at moderate temperatures results in the produc tion of numerous heterocyclic amines, several of which have been found to be mutagenic towards Salmonella typhimurium TA98. It was the purpose of this work to separate, purify, and characterize some of these products. The sources of mutagenic activity for these experiments were commençai beef extract (intended for use in bacteriologic...

This chapter gives an overview of the history of formal argumentation in terms of a distinction between argumentation-based inference and argumentation-based dialogue. Systems for argumentationbased inference are about which conclusions can be drawn from a given body of possibly incomplete, inconsistent of uncertain information. They ultimately define a nonmonotonic notion of logical consequenc...