{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Towards a Functional Architecture for Intelligence Based on Generic Information Processing Tasks","authors":[{"name":"B. Chandrasekaran","slug":"b-chandrasekaran","given":"B.","family":"Chandrasekaran","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"The level of abstraction of much of the work in knowledge-based systems (the rule, frame, logic level) is too low to provide a rich enough vocabulary for knowledge and control. I provide an overview of a framework called the Generic Task approach that proposes that knowledge systems should be built out of building blocks, each of which is appropriat e for a basic type of problem solving. Each generic task uses forms of knowledge and control s trategi es th at are characteristic to it, and are generally conceptually closer to domain knowledge. This facilitate s knowledge acquisition, and can produce a more perspicuous explanation of problem solving. The relationship of the constructs at the generic task level to the rule-frame level is analogous to that between high level programming languages and assembly languages. I describe a set of generic tasks that have been found particularly useful in constructing diagnostic, design and planning systems; diagnostic reasoning is used to illustrate the approach. I describe the Generic Task Toolset for constructing knowledge systems, which embodies the Generic Task approach . I conclude with the implications of this approach for the functional architecture of intelligence.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/241","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/0241.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/241.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/bibtex/241","volume":{"slug":"1987","title":"Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1987","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/","year":1987,"location":"Milan, Italy","dates":"","editors":"John McDermott","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Panels and Invited Talks","track":"Panels and Invited Talks","number":241,"pages":{"first":1183,"last":-1},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}