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Drew McDermott
Researcher at Yale University
Publications - 112
Citations - 12766
Drew McDermott is an academic researcher from Yale University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Process ontology & Ontology (information science). The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 111 publications receiving 12541 citations.
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A critique of pure reason
TL;DR: It is argued that the skimpy progress observed so far is no accident, and that in fact it is going to be very difficult to do much better in the future.
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Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Eugene Charniak,Drew McDermott +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an introduction to artificial intelligence is presented, including reasoning under uncertainty, robot plans, language understanding, and learning, and the history of the field as well as intellectual ties to related disciplines are presented.
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DAML-S: Web Service Description for the Semantic Web
Mark Burstein,Jerry R. Hobbs,Ora Lassila,David Martin,Drew McDermott,Sheila A. McIlraith,Srini Narayanan,Massimo Paolucci,Terry R. Payne,Katia Sycara +9 more
TL;DR: DAML-S is presented, a DAML+OIL ontology for describing the properties and capabilities of Web Services, and three aspects of the ontology are described: the service profile, the process model, and the service grounding.
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Non-monotonic logic I
Drew McDermott,Jon Doyle +1 more
TL;DR: A model and proof theories, a proof procedure, and applications for one non-monotonic logic are developed, and it is proved the completeness of the non-Monotonic predicate calculus and the decidability of theNon- monotonic sentential calculus.
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A temporal logic for reasoning about processes and plans
TL;DR: In this paper, a first-order temporal logic is proposed, in which it is possible to name and prove things about facts, events, plans, and world histories, as well as the persistence of facts and the relationship between tasks and actions.