Adaptive Reasoning for Real-world Problems

A Schema-based Approach
This text describes a method for building real-world problem solving systems such as medical diagnostic procedures and intelligent controllers for autonomous underwater vehicles and other robots.

This book describes a method for building real-world problem solving systems such as medical diagnostic procedures and intelligent controllers for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and other robots. The approach taken is different from other work reported in the artificial intelligence literature in several respects:

* It defines schema-based reasoning, in which schemas — explicitly declared packets of related knowledge — are used to control not only the reasoner’s planning, but also all other facets of its behavior.

* It is a kind of reactive reasoning that the author calls adaptive problem solving — the reasoner maintains commitments to future goals but is able to change its