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Goals in Knowledge-Based Office Systems

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GWAI-84

Part of the book series: Informatik Fachberichte ((2252,volume 103))

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A knowledge-based office system maintains descriptions of the structure and functioning of the office. It uses these descriptions to provide intelligent assistance to the office workers in their knowledge-intensive activities. The paper presents an office system based on the open-ended knowledge representation system KRS. The representation of the office’s goals in hierarchical planning trees provides a flexible and adequate model of the office work. The system plays an active role in the organisation and realisation of the work by bridging the actual status of the world and the user’s intentions.

This is research was funded by ESPRIT under contract no 82, the author is an NFWO fellow.

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  1. AI-lab VUB, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussel, Belgium

    Patty Maes

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  1. Institut für Informatik, Universität Stuttgart, Herdweg 51, D-7000, Stuttgart 1, Germany

    Joachim Laubsch

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Maes, P. (1985). Goals in Knowledge-Based Office Systems. In: Laubsch, J. (eds) GWAI-84. Informatik Fachberichte, vol 103. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46546-8_2

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