NI-DiscoverHistory: Meta-narrative for Explanation Bounding

Abstract

Long-lived goal reasoning systems that reason over their history confront the bounding problem--the impracticality of reasoning over a large, ever-growing experience-base. This is a problem with some explanation systems that use the history of their observations to inform beliefs about the current state of the world. We propose to apply narrative intelligence (NI), which includes the ability to structure experience into narrative structures, to resolve the bounding problem by regarding the full history as a meta-narrative containing individual narratives that can be used in reasoning. Reasoning over narratives rather than raw data will reduce the problem space and also provide opportunity for future work implementing higher forms of reasoning using the semantics inherent to narrative structures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA622296

Entities

People

  • David Aha
  • Swaroop Vattam
  • Tory S. Anderson

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Addressing
  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Base Lines
  • Cognition
  • Efficiency
  • History
  • Humanities
  • Information Operations
  • Intelligent Systems
  • Mental Processes
  • Military Research
  • Observation
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Reasoning
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space