Cooperative hybrid systems

  • Authors:
  • Matthias Gutknecht;Rolf Pfeifer;Markus Stolze

  • Affiliations:
  • AI Lab, Institute for Informatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland;AI Lab, Free University of Brussels, Belgium and AI Lab, Institute for Informatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland;AI Lab, Institute for Informatics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'91 Proceedings of the 12th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

Recently there has been much criticism in the AI community that knowledge based systems are not situated. We argue that trying to provide for situatedness in a conventional system will lead to the so called model explosion cycle and that for most application environments adaptivity is needed for situated behavior. Cooperative systems are a solution to the model explosion cycle where adaptivity is delegated to the user. A hybrid symbolic/connectionist system offers self tuning capabilities (and therefore adaptivity) but can't cope with the model explosion cycle. Integrating both approaches into a cooperative hybrid system leads to a much more situated behavior than conventional systems can achieve. Our approach is illustrated using a real-life expert system in the domain of technical troubleshooting. Ongoing practical tests indicate that a cooperative hybrid design presents an attractive architecture for knowledge based systems.