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Subject: Seminar - Default Reasoning and Stereotypes in User Modelling (UPenn)
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			SPECIAL SEMINAR

SPEAKER:  Timothy Finin
          Computer and Information Science
          University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

WHEN:     Thursday, June 18, 1987, 10:00 am

WHERE: 	  Doherty Hall 3313

TOPIC:    DEFAULT REASONING AND STEREOTYPES IN USER MODELLING

 
This talk discusses the application of various kinds of default reasoning in
systems which must maintain a model of its users.  In particular, we
describe a general architecture of a domain independent system for building
and maintaining long term models of individual users. The user modelling
system is intended to provide a well defined set of services for an
application system which is interacting with various users and has a need to
build and maintain models of them.  As the application system interacts with
a user, it can acquire knowledge of him and pass that knowledge on to the
user model maintenance system for incorporation.  We describe a prototype
general user modelling system (hereafter called GUMS1 which we have
implemented in Prolog.  This system satisfies some of the desirable
characteristics we discuss.


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