A variety of ideas, approaches and techniques exist - in terms of both architecture and learning - and this abundance seems to lead to many exciting possibilities in terms of theoretical advances and application potentials. Despite the apparent diversity, there is clearly an underlying unifying theme: architecures that bring together symbolic and connectionist models to achieve a synthesis and synergy of the two different paradigms, and the learning and knowledge acquisition methods for developing such architectures. More effort needs to be extended to exploit the possibilities and opportunities in this area. This book is the outgrowth of the IJCAI Workshop on Connectionist-Symbolic Integration: From Unified to Hybrid Approaches, held in conjunction with the 14th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'95). Featuring various presentations and discussions, this two-day workshop brought to light many new ideas, controversies and syntheses which lead to the present volume. This book is concerned with the development, analysis and application of hybrid connectionist-symbolic models in artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Drawing contributions from a large international group of experts, it describes and compares a variety of models in this area. The types of models discussed cover a wide range of the evolving spectrum of hybrid models, thus serving as a well-balanced progress report on the state of the art. As such, this volume provides an information clearinghouse for various proposed approaches and models that share the common belief that connectionist and symbolic models can be usefully combined and integrated, and such integration may lead to significant advances in understanding intelligence.
Edited by:
Ron Sun,
Frederic Alexandre
Imprint: Psychology Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 30mm
Weight: 793g
ISBN: 9780805823486
ISBN 10: 0805823484
Pages: 390
Publication Date: 01 November 1997
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Further / Higher Education
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Contents: Preface. R. Sun, An Introduction to Hybrid Connectionist-Symbolic Models. Part I: Reviews and OverviewsM. Hilario, An Overview of Strategies for Neurosymbolic Integration. R. Khosla, T. Dillon, Task Structure Level Symbolic-Connectionist Architecture. Y. Lallement, F. Alexandre, Cognitive Aspects of Neurosymbolic Integration. L. Magdalena, A First Approach to a Taxonomy of Fuzzy-Neural Systems. Part II: Learning in Multi-Module SystemsT. Johnson, J. Zhang, H. Wang, A Hybrid Learning Model of Abductive Reasoning. R. Sun, T. Peterson, A Hybrid Agent Architecture for Reactive Sequential Decision Making. M. Malek, B. Amy, A Preprocessing Model for Integrating Case-Based Reasoning and Prototype-Based Neural Network. B. Orsier, A. Labbi, A Step Toward Fully Integrated Hybrid Systems. J.C. González, J.R. Velasco, C.A. Iglesias, A Distributed Platform for Symbolic-Connectionist Interoperation. Part III: Representing Symbolic Knowledge.B. Kokinov, Micro-Level Hybridization in the Cognitive Architecture Dual. S. Stevenson, An Integrated Symbolic/Connectionist Parsing Architecture. X. Wu, M. McTear, P. Ojha, H. Dai, A Hybrid System Framework for Disambiguating Word Senses. N.S. Park, D. Robertson, A Localist Network Architecture for Logical Inference. J. Austin, A Distributed Associative Memory for Symbolic Reasoning. E. Mjolsness, Symbolic Neural Networks Derived From Stochastic Grammar Domain Models. Part IV: Acquiring Distributed Representation.T.A. Plate, Structure Matching and Transformation With Distributed Representations. A. Sperduti, A. Starita, C. Goller, Distributed Representations for Terms in Hybrid Reasoning Systems. R. Krosley, M. Misra, Symbolic Distributed Representations. Part V: EpilogF. Alexandre, An Analysis of Connectionist-Symbolic Integration.
Ron Sun, Frederic Alexandre
Reviews for Connectionist-Symbolic Integration: From Unified to Hybrid Approaches
...written in an easy to understand manner and it can serve as an excellent reference for anyone (e.g., students, researchers, and practitioners) dealing with intelligent systems....The editors, and the participant authors, should be congratulated for producing a well edited volume on an important subject. -IIE Transaction
