AI Memos (1959 - 2004): Recent submissions

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    • Intellectual Property in Computing: (How) Should Software Be Protected? An Industry Perspective 

      Ernst, Michael D. (1992-05-01)
      The future of the software industry is today being shaped in the courtroom. Most discussions of intellectual property to date, however, have been frames as debates about how the existing law --- promulgated long before the ...

    • Systematic Nonlinear Planning 

      McAllester, David; Rosenblatt, David (1991-12-01)
      This paper presents a simple, sound, complete, and systematic algorithm for domain independent STRIPS planning. Simplicity is achieved by starting with a ground procedure and then applying a general and independently ...

    • Motivated Action Theory: A Formal Theory of Causal Reasoning 

      Stein, Lynn Andrea; Morgenstern, Leora (1991-12-01)
      When we reason about change over time, causation provides an implicit preference: we prefer sequences of situations in which one situation leads causally to the next, rather than sequences in which one situation follows ...