Professional Documents
Culture Documents
AI Techniques
and Methodology
Jaime Carbonell Derek Sleeman
Computer Sczence Department Department of Computer Studies
Carnegae-Mellon University 1;Tnzversity of Leeds
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 152125 Leeds LS2 9JT
United Ktngdom
Two CLOSELY RELATED ASPECTS of Artificial Intel- The prefered form for a contribution is a short paper or
ligence t,hat have received comparatively little attention technical note addressing issues of interest to a substantial
in the recent literature are research methodology and the segment of the AI community. Of course, longer scholarly
analysis of computational techniques that span multiple ap- papers on techniques or met,hodology would be highly wel-
plication areas. We believe both issues to be increasingly comed, as would commentary or elaboration on previous
significant, as Artificial Intelligence matures into a science- contributions. The criteria for evaluating contributions are
and spins off major application efforts. It is imperative to simple: clarity of writing, and perceived benefit to the AI
analyze the repertoire of AI methods with respect to past community. Contributions should be mailed to either:
experience, utility in new domains, extensibility, and func-
tional equivalence with other techniques, if N is to become Jaime Carhonell
more effective in building upon prior results rather than con- Computer Science Department
tinually reinverking the proverbial wheel. Similarly, aware- Carnegie-Mellon University
ness of research methodology issues can help plan future Pittsburgh, PA 15213
research by learning from past successes and failures. We (ARPANET: CARBONELLQCMU~ZOC)