integrating Marker Passing and Problem Solving: A Spreading Activation Approach To Improved Choice in Planning

By James A. Hendler and James A Hendler

A recent area of interest in the Artificial Intelligence community has been the application of massively parallel algorithms to enhance the choice mechanism in traditional AI problems. This volume provides a detailed description of how marker-passing -- a parallel, non-deductive, spreading activation algorithm -- is a powerful approach to refining the choice mechanisms in an AI problem-solving system.

The author scrutinizes the design of both the algorithm and the system, and then reviews the current literature and research in planning and marker passing. Also included: a comparison of this computer model with some standard cognitive models, and a comparison of this model to the "connectionist" approach.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898599822
• ISBN13: 9780898599824
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"