AISB91 : proceedings of the eighth Conference of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, 16-19 April 1991, University of Leeds

Distributed Intelligent Agents.- Deriving Transformers from Knowledge Organized as a Society of Agents.- Multiple Network Systems (MINOS) Modules: Task Division and Module Discrimination.- Commitments and Projects.- RR - An Intelligent Resource-Bounded Reasoner.- Situatedness and Emergence in Autonomous Agents.- A Cognitive Model of Goal-oriented Automatisms and Breakdowns.- The 'Logical Omniscience' of Reactive Systems.- A Connectionist Semantics for Spatial Descriptions.- Neural Networks and Visual Behaviour: Flies, Panned Eyes, and Statistics.- Specifying Complex Behaviour for Computer Agents.- New Modes of Reasoning.- Integrating Neural Network and Expert Reasoning: An Example.- An Architecture for Selective Forgetting.- Constraint Propagation in Qualitative Modelling: Domain Variables Improve Diagnostic Efficiency.- Recursive Plans.- The Knowledge Level Perspective.- Task Centered Representation for Expert Systems at the Knowledge Level.- Knowledgeable knowledge acquisition.- Formalization of the KADS Interpretation Models.- Qualitative Models for Simulation and Control of Dynamic Systems.- Tractable Rationality at the Knowledge Level.- On Problems with the Knowledge Level Perspective.- Theorem Proving.- Using Abstraction.- Sound Substitution into Modal Contexts.- Machine Learning.- Modelling Representations of Device Knowledge in SOAR.- Instance-Based and Generalization-Based Learning Procedures Applied to Solving Integration Problems.