Inheritance Comes of Age: Applying Nonmonotonic Techniques to Problems in Industry
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Invited Speakers. Pages 1613-1620.
Abstract
N onmonotonic reasoning is virtually absent from industry and has been so since its inception; the result is that the field is becoming marginalized within AI. I argue that this is because researchers in the area focus exclusively on commonsense problems which are irrelevant to industry and because few efficient algorithms and/or tools have been developed. A sensible strategy is thus to focus on industry problems and to develop solutions within tractable subtheories of nonmonotonic logic. I examine one of the few examples of nonmonotonic reasoning in industry - inheritance of business rules in the medical insurance domain - and show how the paradigm of inheritance with exceptions can be extended to a broader and more powerful kind of nonmonotonic reasoning. Finally I discuss the underlying lessons that can be generalized to other industry problems.
@inproceedings{ijcai1997p234,
title = {Inheritance Comes of Age: Applying Nonmonotonic Techniques to Problems in Industry},
author = {Morgenstern, Leora},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-97}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {Martha E. Pollack},
pages = {1613--1620},
year = {1997},
note = {Invited Speakers},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/234},
}
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