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Article #1145Re: Definition of science and of scientific method.
From: John B. Nagle
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1987 18:31
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1987 18:31
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In "Planning for Conjunctive Goals" (Artificial Intelligence, vol 32, 1987,
p. 333-377), David Chapman, while discussing the history of conjunctive planning
research, writes
"The three main points of this section are that in retrospect all
domain-independent conjunctive planners work the same way; that the
action representation which they depend on is inadequate for real-world
planning, and that desirable extension to this action representation
make planning exponentially harder. It is much longer than such
sections are in typical AI papers because domain-independent
conjunction planning is unusual as a subfield of AI in showing a
clear line of researchers duplicating and building on each other's
work. Science is supposed to be like that, but for the most part
AI hasn't been."
I agree.
John Nagle
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!bloom-beacon!think!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!labrea!glacier!jbn From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle) Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech Subject: Re: Definition of science and of scientific method. Message-ID: <17133@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 14:31:10 EDT Article-I.D.: glacier.17133 Posted: Fri Jul 17 14:31:10 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 17:43:38 EDT References: <6693@allegra.UUCP> <1664@tekcrl.TEK.COM> <1084@aecom.YU.EDU> <813@klipper.cs.vu.nl> Organization: Stanford University Lines: 19 Summary: Research in planning seems to behave like a science