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Problem-Solving Methods: Understanding, Description, Development, and Reuse

Problem-Solving Methods: Understanding, Description, Development, and Reuse

Fensel, Dieter

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Medical ReferenceGeneral ComputersProgramming

ISBN10: 3540678166
ISBN13: 9783540678168
Publisher: Springer
Published: Sep 27 2000
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Researchers in Artificial Intelligence have traditionally been classified into two categories: the neaties and the scruffies. According to the scruffies, the neaties concentrate on building elegant formal frameworks, whose properties are beautifully expressed by means of definitions, lemmas, and theorems, but which are of little or no use when tackling real-world problems. The scruffies are described (by the neaties) as those researchers who build superficially impressive systems that may perform extremely well on one particular case study, but whose properties and underlying theories are hidden in their implementation, if they exist at all. As a life-long, non-card-carrying scruffy, I was naturally a bit suspicious when I first started collaborating with Dieter Fensel, whose work bears all the formal hallmarks of a true neaty. Even more alarming, his primary research goal was to provide sound, formal foundations to the area of knowledge-based systems, a traditional stronghold of the scruffies - one of whom had famously declared it an art, thus attempting to place it outside the range of the neaties (and to a large extent succeeding in doing so).

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