This paper reviews the state of artificial intelligence (AI) and the quest to create general AI
with human-like cognitive capabilities. Although existing AI methods have produced …

Behavior-focused decision aids have had little documented success. A proposed contributor
is this: To most deciders, decision quality entails myriad diverse facets, with an emphasis on …

By the twentieth century, all major industrialized countries oficered formal schooling to all of
their children. When these schools took shape in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries …

Artificial intelligence is applied to many fields and contributes to many important applications
and research areas, such as intelligent data processing, natural language processing …

Abstract Knowledge management is a key strategy that organizations are embracing to
manage their organizational knowledge for strategic advantage. Unfortunately, like any new …

Pattern recognition encompasses two fundamental tasks: description and classification.
Given an object to analyze, a pattern recognition system first generates a description of it (ie …

This chapter introduces the field of learning sciences, and outlines some of its key findings in
recent years. It explains that while the standard model of schooling was designed to prepare …

Thinking in terms of facts and rules is perhaps one of the most common ways of approaching
problem definition and problem solving both in everyday life and under more formal …

This book provides an extensive review of three interrelated issues: land fragmentation, land
consolidation, and land reallocation, and it presents in detail the theoretical background …

In this decade, remarkable progress has been made in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
Inspired by well-known services of cognitive assistance systems such as IBM Watson …