Piero P. Bonissone's Research Interests:

Approximate Reasoning (AR)

 

 

Timeline

 

 

Papers

 

(2008) [34] P. Bonissone, Research Issues in Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM): The Impact of Uncertainty in Solution Evaluation, IPMU 2008, Malaga, Spain, June 22-27, 2008, [GE GR Technical Report, 2008GRC740, Oct. 2008 (pdf)].

 

(1997) [33] P. Bonissone, Approximate Reasoning Systems: Handling Uncertainty and Imprecision in Information Systems, in Uncertainty Management in Information Systems: From Needs to Solutions, A. Motro and Ph. Smets (eds.), pp 369-395, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.

 

(1991) [32] P. Bonissone, Approximate Reasoning Systems: A Personal Perspective, Proc. American Association for Artificial Intelligence 1991 (AAAI-91), pp. 923-929, Anaheim, CA, July 1991

(1991) [31] P. Bonissone, Reasoning, Plausible, in The Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, 2nd Edition, S. Shapiro (Ed.), pp. 1307-1322, John Wiley and Sons, 1991

 

(1990) [30] P. Bonissone and P. Halverson, Time-Constrained Reasoning Under Uncertainty, The Journal of Real Time Systems, 2:22-45, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 1990 (pdf: SprigerLink)

(1990) [29] J. Yen and P. Bonissone, Extending Term Subsumption Systems for Uncertainty Management, Proc. 6th Conference on Uncertainty in AI, pp. 468-473, Cambridge, MA, July 27-29, 1990

 

(1990) [28] P. Bonissone, D. Cyrluk, J. Goodwin, J. Stillman, Uncertainty and Incompleteness: Breaking the Symmetry of Defeasible Reasoning, in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence: Vol. 5, M. Henrion, R. Shacter, L. Kanal and J. Lemmer (Eds.), pp. 67-85, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1990

(1990) [27] P. Bonissone, Now that I Have a Good Theory of Uncertainty, What Else Do I Need?, in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence: Vol. 5, M. Henrion, R. Shacter, L. Kanal and J. Lemmer (Editors), pp. 237--253, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1990

(1990) [26] S. Dutta and P. Bonissone, An Approach to Integrating Diverse Reasoning Techniques, Proc. Second Generation Expert Systems, pp. 37-51, Avignon, France, May 28 - June 1, 1990

(1990) [25] P. Bonissone, L. Blau, S. Ayub, Leveraging the Integration of Approximate Reasoning Systems Proc Third Annual Spring Symposium Series (0738-4602/91), Stanford University, California, March 27-29, 1990

 

(1990) [24] J. Aragones, P. Bonissone, J. Stillman, PRIMO: A Tool for Reasoning with Incomplete and Uncertain Information, Proc. Third International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU 90), pp. 325-327, Paris, France, July 2-6, 1990.

 

(1989) [23] P. Bonissone, RUM (Reasoning with Uncertainty Module) And RUMRUNNER (RUM's Run Time System), in Expert Systems in Structural Safety Assessment, pp. 131-150, Springer-Verlag, October 1989

 

(1989) [22] P. Bonissone, Evidence and Belief in Expert Systems (Dempster-Shafer): A Simplified View, in Expert Systems in Structural Safety Assessment, pp. 113-130, Springer-Verlag, October 1989

(1989) [21] P. Bonissone, Uncertainty in KBS (Expert Systems) in Expert Systems in Structural Safety Assessment, pp. 93-112, Springer-Verlag, October 1989

(1989) [20] P. Bonissone and N.C. Wood, T-norm Based Reasoning in Situation Assessment Applications, in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 3, L. Kanal, T. Levitt, and J. Lemmer (Eds.), pp. 241--256, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1989

(1989) [19] P. Bonissone, D. Cyrluk, J. Stillman, J. Goodwin, Uncertainty and Incompleteness: Breaking the Symmetry of Defeasible Reasoning, Proc. 1989 Conference of Uncertainty in AI, pp. 34-45, Windsor, Canada, August 18-20, 1989

 

(1989) [18] P. Bonissone, Now that I Have a Good Theory of Uncertainty, What Else Do I Need?, Proc. 1989 Conference of Uncertainty in AI, pp. 22-33, Windsor, Canada, August 18-20, 1989.

 

(1988) [17] P. Bonissone, L. Pfau, From RUM to RUMrunner: Transitioning Reasoning with Uncertainty to a Run-Time Environment, Proc. 1988 GE Software Engineering Conference, Daytona Beach, Florida, May 1988

 

(1987) [16] P. Bonissone, Plausible Reasoning: Coping with Uncertainty in Expert Systems, in The Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, S. Shapiro (Ed.), pp. 854-863, John Wiley and Sons, 1987

 

(1987) [15] P. Bonissone, Summarizing and Propagating Uncertain Information with Triangular Norms, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 1(1): 71-101, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1987 (pdf: ScienceDirect - paper #8)

 

(1987) [14] P. Bonissone, Using T-norm Based Uncertainty Calculi in a Naval Situation Assessment Application, in the Proc. Third AAAI Workshop on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 250-261, Seattle, Washington, July 1987

 

(1987) [13] P. Bonissone, S. Gans, K. Decker, RUM: A Layered Architecture for Reasoning with Uncertainty, Proc. 1987 International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 87), pp. 891-898, Milan, Italy, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., August 1987

 

(1986) [12] P. Bonissone and A. Brown, Expanding the Horizons of Expert Systems, in Expert Systems and Knowledge Engineering, T. Bernold (Ed.), pp. 267-288, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1986

 

(1986) [11] P. Bonissone and K. Decker, Selecting Uncertainty Calculi and Granularity: An Experiment in Trading-off Precision and Complexity, in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, L. Kanal, and J. Lemmer (Eds.), pp. 217-247, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1986

(1985) [10] P. Bonissone and K. Decker, Selecting Uncertainty Calculi and Granularity: An Experiment in Trading-off Precision and Complexity, Proc. Workshop on Uncertainty and Probability in Artificial Intelligence, pp. 57-66, UCLA, Los Angeles CA, August 1985

 

(1985) [9] P. Bonissone, Reasoning with Uncertainty in Expert Systems Past, Present, and Future, Proceedings of IFSA 85, Mallorca, Spain, July 1-5, 1985

(1984) [8] R. Tong and P. Bonissone, Linguistic Solutions to Fuzzy Decision Problems, in Studies in the Management Science, Vol. 20, H.J. Zimmerman, L.A. Zadeh, B.R. Gaines (Editors), pp. 323-334, North Holland, 1984

 

(1984) [7] Z. Sahnoun, F. Di Cesare, and P. Bonissone, Management of Uncertainty in a Disaster Response Information System, Proc. 1984 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 9-12, 1984

 

(1983) [6] P. Bonissone, Coping with Uncertainty in Expert Systems: a Comparative Study, Proceeding American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 1230-1232, San Francisco, June 22-24, 1983

 

(1982) [5] P. Bonissone, A Fuzzy Sets Based Linguistic Approach: Theory and Applications, in Approximate Reasoning in Decision Analysis, M. M. Gupta and E. Sanchez (Eds.), pp. 329-339, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1982

 

(1980) [4] R. Tong, P. Bonissone, A Linguistic Approach to Decisionmaking with Fuzzy Sets, IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 10(11): 716-723, November 1980

 

(1980) [3]P. Bonissone, A Fuzzy Sets Based Linguistic Approach: Theory and Applications, Proc. 1980 Winter Simulation Conference, pp. 99-111, Orlando, Florida, December 1980

 

(1980) [2] P. Bonissone, Linguistic Approach and its Related Problems, Proc. 14th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, pp. 216-220, Princeton, New Jersey, March 1980

(1979) [1] P. Bonissone, A Pattern Recognition Approach to the Problem of Linguistic Approximation in System Analysis, Proc.1979 IEEE International Conference on Cybernetics and Society, pp. 793-798, Denver, Colorado, October 1979

 

Patents (Issued / Applications)

(1991) A Real-Time System for Reasoning With Uncertainty, P. Bonissone, L. Pfau, US Patent Number 5,058,033 (October 15, 1991)

(1989) A Reasoning System for Reasoning with Uncertainty, P. Bonissone, US Patent Number 4,860,213 (August 22, 1989)

Supervised MS - PhD Theses

Ph D Theses:

(1987) A Differential Method for Reasoning by Analogy, G. Porter, ECSE Dept, [Co-Advisor: R. McNaughton],

(1986) A Unified Representation of Uncertainty, N. Christensen, ECSE Dept, [Co-Advisor: F. DiCesare]

 

MS Theses:

(1988) RUMrunner: Real-time Reasoning with Uncertainty, L. Pfau, CS Dept., [Co-Advisor: R. McNaughton]

(1988) Uncertain Reasoning For Improved Situation Assessment, S. Gans, MIT, CS Dept. [Co-Advisor: R. Patil]

(1987) RUM: Reasoning with Uncertainty Module, M. Hoffman, CS Dept.

 

Projects

 

  • Reasoning with Uncertainty (DARPA) [1985-88]
  • Pilot's Associate (DARPA) [1986-89]

 

 

Author: Piero P. Bonissone - Email: bonissone@crd.ge.com

 

 
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