We present a model for error recovery and interrupt handling by a reasoning, acting, and linguistically-competent cognitive agent. Faced with an emergency situation, the agent reasons about what it needs to do and what it is currently doing to decide what to do next. Its reasoning is based on general context-sensitive domain knowledge about the priority of acts. Such knowledge may be provided t...

This paper advocates the adoption of deferred error handling within computer science curricula. It argues that it is both a sound development strategy and aligns well with pedagogically. By deferring error handling, the student better appreciates its subtleties and its importance as an independent topic. This paper also includes other topics which may enhance curricula: an analysis of error rep...

The inclusion of error handling capabilities within geographical information systems (GIS) is seen by many as crucial to the future commercial and legal stability of the technology. This thesis describes the analysis, design, implementation and use of a GIS able to handle both geographical information (GI) and the error associated with that GI. The first stage of this process is the development...

Device drivers may encounter errors when communicating with OS kernel and hardware. However, error handling code often gets insufficient attention in driver development and testing, because these errors rarely occur in real execution. For this reason, many bugs are hidden in error handling code. Previous approaches for testing error handling code often neglect the characteristics of device driv...

Speech recognition errors are inevitable in a speech dialog system. This paper presents an error handling method based on correction grammars which recognize the correction utterances which follow a recognition error. Correction grammars are dynamically created from existing grammars and a set of correction templates. We also describe a prototype dialog system which incorporates this error hand...