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title: "Adaptive Production Systems"
authors:
  - "Donald A. Waterman"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/45"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/0045.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1975
pages: "296-302"
track: "Learning Debugging And Automatic Programming"
keywords:
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# Adaptive Production Systems

Donald A. Waterman

*Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 296-302.

## Abstract

Adaptive production systems are defined and used to illustrate adaptive techniques in production system construction. A learning paradigm is described within the framework of adaptive production systems, and is applied to a simple rote learning task, a nonsense syllable association and discrimination task, and a serial pattern acquisition task. It is shown that with the appropriate production building mechanism, all three tasks can be solved using similar adaptive production system learning techniques.