Northeast Artificial Intelligence Consortium annual report for 1987. Volume 5. Building an intelligent assistant: The acquisition, integration, and maintenance of complex distributed tasks. Interim report, December 1986-December 1987

Abstract : The Northeast Artificial Intelligence Consortium (NAIC) was created to conduct pertinent research in artificial intelligence and to perform activities ancillary to this research. The topics covered in general are: versatile expert system for equipment maintenance distributed AI for communications system control, automatic photo interpretation, time-oriented problem solving, speech understanding systems, knowledge base maintenance, hardware architectures for very large systems, knowledge-based reasoning and planning, and a knowledge acquisition, assistance, and explanation system. The specific topic for this volume is the development of intelligent interfaces to support cooperating computer users in their interactions with a computer. Keywords: Artificial intelligence: Intelligent interfaces: Planning: Plan recognition: Intelligence computer aided instruction.