{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Reasoning With Incomplete Knowledge in a Resource-Limited Environment: Integrating Reasoning and Knowledge Acquisition","authors":[{"name":"Mark S. Fox","slug":"mark-s-fox","given":"Mark S.","family":"Fox","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"This pdper describes a n a pproa c h t o rea~o~in g with incomplete in f o rmati on in a r eeo ur ce -l1m1t ed env ir o nm e nt. Approaches to dat e either as s ume infini t e r esou r ce s and pn,ceed t o e num er:.l t e a _Jar ge infere n ce space , o r as s um e few r eso ur ces and 1gno re th e missing info rm atio n. Th ey do n ot reason abou t resource co nstraint s and th e inferen c e methods amis sab l e under them. A hear say -II-lik e system 1S desc ri bed wher e each knowledg e source i s _a sepa rat e pr od uc tion sys t em. During rule evalua t1 on, a rule anteceda nt i s evalua t e d usi ng minimal - resour ce methods . A rule antecedant i s eval ua t ed t o. true, false , o r an expected re so ur ce co s t to acq ulr: the info r ma t io n ne cessa ry to complete its eva luat1on. r\" r conf li c t resolution chooses a parti a ll y evaluat ed rule, it po s t s a goal asking other . kn o wled ge sou r ces t o provide th e mi ss ing informat1on, s u spen ds th e knowl e d ge sou r ce, and informs t~e knowledge source ' s manager ab o ut th e s uspenslon and l·ng goa l The ma na ger d ec id es wh et heraccompa ny · f th e goa l is worth pu r suing now, the amou nt o resou rc es to apply t o th e task, what knowledge source t o app l y , and when to g ive up . Th e knowledge so ur c;s that a tt em pt th e goa l ca n i mpl eme nt a varie~y o infe re nti al and knowledg e acquisitio n techn1ques.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/62","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0062.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/62.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/bibtex/62","volume":{"slug":"1981","title":"Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1981","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/","year":1981,"location":"Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada","dates":"24-28 August 1981","editors":"Roger C. Schank","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"INFERENCE and REASONING","track":"INFERENCE and REASONING","number":62,"pages":{"first":313,"last":317},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}