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Acquisition, Learning, and Demonstration: Automating Tasks for Users
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Papers from the 1996 AAAI Spring Symposium
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Our goal is to make combinatorial problem-solving technology available to users who have no formal training in AI or OR. To achieve this aim, we have built a system, VICSS (Visual Constraint Specification System) that enables users to specify problems graphically. To simplify the specification process, VICSS relles heavily on progra~nming-by-demonstration (PBD) techniques. We believe, however, that the key to making PBD succeed for our application is to constrain the generalization process so that the system makes only "simple", easy-to-understand generalizations. In this paper we describe several design decisions that enable us to achieve this end, and illustrate them in the context of an extended example.
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Papers from the 1996 AAAI Spring Symposium