{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Toward Efficiency Trough Generality","authors":[{"name":"Jean-Louis Laurière","slug":"jean-louis-lauriere","given":"Jean-Louis","family":"Laurière","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"In the following lines we shall adduce new elements to a controversy which lies at the heart of curr e nt discussions about programming activities. The question is: must we write specific programs or general systems ?We shall contrast the two approaches to this methodological problem by me ans of a case in point. Their respective interest will be compared andasurprising conclusion will eventually be reached which is crucial to the core of AI and justifies many researches in the field : efficiency can only · be attained trough generality.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/116","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0116.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/116.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/bibtex/116","volume":{"slug":"1979","title":"Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1979","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/","year":1979,"location":"Tokyo, Japan","dates":"August 20-23, 1979","editors":"Bruce G. Buchanan","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":116,"pages":{"first":null,"last":null},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}