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Hector J. Levesque
Researcher at University of Toronto
Publications - 202
Citations - 20981
Hector J. Levesque is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Situation calculus & Knowledge representation and reasoning. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 200 publications receiving 20218 citations. Previous affiliations of Hector J. Levesque include Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. & Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
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Common Sense, the Turing Test, and the Quest for Real AI
TL;DR: Hector Levesque considers the role of language in learning, and identifies a possible mechanism behind common sense and the capacity to call on background knowledge: the ability to represent objects of thought symbolically.
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The tractability of path-based inheritance
Bart Selman,Hector J. Levesque +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that Touretzky's inheritance notion is NP-hard, and provided P ≠ NP, computationally intractable, even when one only considers unambiguous, totally acyclic inheritance networks.
Proceedings Article
Competence in knowledge representation
TL;DR: Some aspects of current representation research that offer a foundation for coping with complex and incompletenesson knowledge representation systems are reviewed, and a way of integrating these ideas into a powerful, practical knowledge representation paradigm is suggested.
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Ability and knowing how in the situation calculus
TL;DR: This paper presents a formal account of what it means for an agent to know how to execute a plan and to be able to achieve a goal, and correctly handles programs containing loops, and incorporates a solution to the frame problem.
A formal treatment of incomplete knowledge bases
TL;DR: It is argued that to effectively deal with incomplete knowledge, a system must first be able to determine where the incompleteness lies, and a formal model of knowledge bases with these abilities is presented.