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OPPORTUNISTIC REASONING [3 records]

Record 1 2024-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

A problem solving model in which a shared working memory called a blackboard, that can be accessed by several knowledge sources, is used to communicate intermediate results or new data.

CONT

The blackboard model of problem solving is a highly structured, special case of opportunistic problem solving. In addition to opportunistic reasoning as a knowledge-application strategy, the blackboard model prescribes the organization of the domain knowledge and all the input and intermediate and partial solutions needed to solve the problem.

CONT

Classic blackboard models have a modular architecture consisting of several knowledge sources, a database or blackboard, and a scheduler.

OBS

Term and definition standardized by ISO/IEC.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Dans ce modèle, les diverses sources de connaissance sont des processus indépendants qui, théoriquement, s'ignorent mutuellement et qui communiquent par l'intermédiaire d'une base de données complexe, le blackboard.

OBS

modèle du tableau noir : Terme normalisé par ISO/CEI.

Spanish

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Record 2 1995-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

Rule-based expert systems are often organized around one(or a combination) of three different reasoning paradigms : forward, backward, and opportunistic reasoning.

CONT

This project familiarized us with the nature of the problem, and enabled us to recommend a knowledge acquisition procedure for rule-based expert systems.

CONT

... MYCIN, the first and most well-known rule-based expert system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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Record 3 1991-01-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
DEF

A reasoning which reduces the search space by focusing the planning effort in areas that are of high certainty and/or highly constrained.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle

Spanish

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